§ SIR JOSEPH PEASE (Durham, Barnard Castle)I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education whether his attention has been called to the case of Mr. Jewett, headmaster of the Captain Cook Memorial School, Marton in Cleveland, who has received notice to terminate his engagement because he declines to sit 61 with the choir in church on Sundays, such not being one of the duties denned in the agreement into which he entered with the managers of the school; and whether the Education Department can take any action, or are prepared to give any advice to the managers of the school on the subject?
§ SIR J. GORSTThe honourable Member has communicated to me the particulars of Mr. Jewett's case, and it will be most regrettable if the services of so excellent a school teacher should be terminated by extraneous causes. The Committee of Council can take no action in the matter, and they are reluctant to give advice in a matter in which they have no authority to interfere.