§ CAPTAIN PIMasked the Under Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether, under the Industrial Schools Bill which passed through Committee on Monday last, it is competent for a School Board, or a combination of School Boards, to undertake the establishment of a training ship; and, if a School Board or combination of School Boards can do so, whether he will be good enough to mention the legal authority under which such School Board could take this step?
§ SIR MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEYUnder Sections 5 and 12 of the Industrial Schools Act, 1866, 29 & 30 Vict. 848 c. 118, and Section 28 of the Elementary Education Act, 1870, 33 & 34 Vict. c. 75, it is competent for a School Board to undertake the establishment of a training ship. Under the Industrial Schools Bill, which passed through Committee on Monday last, it will be competent for School Boards to combine for a like undertaking.