§ SIR RICHARD PAGETI beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether he can see his way to make provision whereby pupils in training for the post of teachers at Elementary schools may have opportunities of acquiring a sufficient knowledge of both practical and theoretical agriculture to enable them to give lessons to children in elementary schools in simple agricultural facts and Elementary agricultural processes; and whether similar provision can be made for instruction of teachers at Elementary schools, either at local centres or in some other manner?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Sir W. HART DYKE,) Kent, DartfordThe new Code contains provisions which will, I hope, contribute to secure the objects my hon. Friend has in view, so far as the future supply of teachers is concerned. And it seems to me that provision could be made as regards existing teachers to local classes in agriculture under the Science and Art Department. I shall also be glad to consider any further scheme for the purpose.