HC Deb 03 April 1883 vol 277 cc1275-6
MR. MORGAN LLOYD

asked the Secretary of State for the Homo Department, If his attention has been called to a letter from Mr. Boucher, the Principal of the Carnarvon Church Training College, which appeared in the "Carnarvon Herald" of last Saturday, in which Mr. Boucher declared his determination to refuse to admit a young man as a student to that College on the ground that though confirmed by the bishop of the diocese, he had been baptized by a dissenting minister, and was not a member of the Church of Christ at all, but merely of the Congregational Society; and, whether he will consider if a person holding those views can discharge the duties of Principal of a Training College supported in part by the State?

SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT,

in reply, said, he had no knowledge of the fact stated in the Question. Indeed, if he had, the matter was not one which would come within the control of the Home Department.