§ MAJOR L. DARWIN (Staffordshire, Lichfield)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether Inspectors of Drawing in elementary schools holding temporary appointments have been told that their employment will cease in August next; and, if so, whether (especially in the case of compulsorily retired officers, who have therefore previously been removed from the Government service through no fault of their own) he will reconsider the case of those who have done their duty to the complete satisfaction of the Department for some years, and retain their services until an age limit is reached?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Mr. A. H. D. ACLAND, York,) W. R., RotherhamThe employment of some of the local Inspectors will cease in August next, and of others in August 1896. All of these officers who were under 45 years of age have, with one or two exceptions, been offered, or are to be offered, permanent appointments on the new staff; but I fear it is not possible to hold out hopes of retaining any over that age. The Department has expressed its thanks for the services which have been rendered by the gentlemen mentioned, but as the appointments were always clearly understood to be only from year to year, I hope that no injustice has been done.