§ MR. ESSLEMONTI beg to ask the Undersecretary of State for the Colonies whether the Secretary of State has given instructions that education in Trinidad shall neither be compulsory or free?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Baron H. DE WORMS,) Liverpool, East ToxtethThe Secretary of State has expressed his concurrence in the opinion of the Governor of Trinidad that, in the circumstances of the Colony, it is not yet practicable to introduce compulsory education, and that moderate school fees should continue to be charged, except for the children of Indian Immigrant labourers and of parents who are too poor to pay them.