§ MR. J. H. YOXALL (Nottingham, W.)I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education whether his attention has been called to the fact that at the public elementary school of St. Andrew's, Willesden, another assistant master is threatened with dismissal by the vicar, because the assistant master declines to relinquish his post of organist at another parish church in order to attend the church of St. Andrew; whether in view of the fact that the managers of the said school received some £1,200 of public money during the year last reported on by the Education Department, any steps can be taken by the Department to prevent the threatened dismissal; and, whether if the Department does not at present possess the requisite powers to redress abuses of management, he will take the necessary steps to obtain them?
§ SIR J. GORSTThe Committee of Council have received no information on the subject; but, as I have frequently stated, the Committee of Council have no power to interfere in the contracts made by the managers and teachers of elementary schools, and do not see how if would be possible for them to exercise such a power.