§ MR. JESSE COLLINGSasked the Vice President of the Committee of Council, If his attention has been called to the following advertisement in The Ipswich Mercury: —
Ashbocking Board School, Suffolk.—Certificated Mistress wanted in September; present number on books 78; pupil teacher in second year; good treble voice essential; furnished schoolhouse; superintend Sunday school and lead church singing; salary averages £55.— Apply, Rev. M. Cowell, Ashbocking Vicarage, Needham Market;and, whether the imposition of such conditions as these on teachers constitutes a violation of the spirit of the Education Act, 1870?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Mr. E. STANHOPE),in reply, said, he presumed the advertisement was inserted by the chairman of the school board, with full authority of his board; and the Education Department had not the power or the right to interfere with the action of the school board.