§ MR. M'CARTAN (Down, S.)asked the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education, Whether the teachers of elementary schools in England are required to purchase their 341 supplies of school requisites from any particular firm; whether there is any Rule obliging them to advance in bulk sum the full price at which the requisites are to be retailed to their pupils; and, whether he will mention what facilities are afforded to these teachers in the selection and purchase of books and stationery for use in their schools?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT (Sir WILLIAM HART DYKE) (Kent, Dartford)in reply, said, that teachers of elementary schools in England had nothing to do with purchasing of school requisites. This was the business of the managers, who enjoyed full liberty of action in respect of it.