§ MR. STANLEY LEIGHTONI beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council whether he has received complaints of the operation of Article 106 (b) (vi.) of the Code, which defines the qualification of scholars for evening school examinations and limits the qualification to those who are presented in two or more subjects; and whether, in consideration of the difficulty of acquiring facility in shorthand writing and the uselessness of an inadequate acquaintance with the art, he will relax the regulation relating to this special subject, and authorise scholars for evening examinations to be presented for shorthand examination without being obliged to take up another subject?
§ MR. ACLANDThe rule referred to by the hon. Member is intended to ensure that evening schools in receipt of Government grant shall be places of education, and something more than more classes formed for instruction in a single subject without reference to anything else. I do not think it advisable to put shorthand on a different footing from 1508 other subjects of equal or greater importance.