§ MAJOR RASCH (Essex, S.E.)asked the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether the Education Department has any other reason for compelling the formation of a School Board at Tilbury Docks other than the fact that the existing buildings are not of brick or stone; whether the Department is aware that as Tilbury is below the level of the Thames, it is impossible to build with brick foundations; and, whether, as the schools are self-supporting, and no complaint has been made with regard to education or finance, the Department will cancel their Order?
§ *THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION (Sir W. HART DYKE,) Kent, DartfordA final notice requiring additional accommodation for 130 children was published in March, 1888. The Department has never accepted an iron building as permanently satisfying the requirements of a notice, and no representations were made as to the difficulty of building in brick or stone at Tilbury; it is, moreover, understood that the Roman Catholic school lately built there is a substantial brick building, and that there are other brick buildings in the neighbourhood, among them a large block of lofty model dwellings for workmen. The order for the election of a School Board cannot be cancelled.
§ MAJOR RASCHI beg to give notice, in consequence of the answer of the right hon. Gentleman, that I will call attention to the matter on the Estimates, and move the reduction of the Vote in Class 4.