§ MR. KNOXI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether the Government refused to allow the sum expended by the National Education Board in Ireland in fees for cookery and laundry teaching to be increased from £500 to £1,100 a year; whether he is aware that the demand for further instructors in these subjects is very great; and could he state the amount expended in teaching these subjects in England?
§ *MR. HANBURYYes, Sir an expenditure which was sanctioned for three years as an experiment was proposed to be more than doubled before one year's results could be ascertained. The Treasury could hardly be expected to entertain such a proposal. I am not aware either of the extent of the demand for such instruction, or of the success which has attended it hitherto. In England about £400 per annum is spent on an Inspectress of Cookery and Laundry Work, but no provision is made from vet ed moneys for teaching these subjects.