§ MR. R. BRIGHTasked the Vice President of the Council, Whether, considering the short notice given to managers of schools of the altered conditions under which any Parliamentary grant to be made after the 30th of April next is obtainable, he will postpone the date after which grants will cease to be made under "the Old Code?"
§ MR. W. E. FORSTERreplied, that the time for the new Code to come into operation had been fixed with very great care by the Educational Department, and, therefore, he could not undertake to make any change with reference to it. The regulations respecting night schools would not come into operation until after the coming season for such schools. With regard to the general day schools, there was an introductory minute in the new Code, arranging among other matters that the provisions as to pupil teachers had only to be observed at the time of the inspection, and the remainder was arranged so as to suit the best working of the Department. He felt quite certain that it would be very much against the interest of the managers to postpone the date at which they were to receive grants under the new regulations.