§ MR. FOSTER (Suffolk, Lowestoft)I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education, whether he is aware that the London School Board recently purchased Nos. 32, 34, 36, 38, Albion Street, South Grove, Bow, for the purpose of enlarging the South Grove Board School, and, having decided not to pull down the houses, served the tenants with one week's notice to quit, the notice being dated the 18th February; that the tenants were told at the same time that, if they would consent to pay l1s. 6d. per week, instead of the rental of 9s. 6d. per week, which they had hitherto paid, they could stay; that the tenant of No. 38, Mrs. Halsey, has lived there for over nine years, and has never paid more than 9s. 6d. per week, and that when the School Board collector recently called to collect the increased rent her husband was lying dead in the house; and that the tenant of No. 36, Mrs. Dickinson has lived there for nine years at 9s. 6d. per week; whether he is aware that an appeal has been made to the Board to allow these tenants to remain, 135 and not to extract from them an increase of 20 per cent. in their rental, and that this appeal has been rejected; and, whether the Education Department have any power to interfere in the matter, or will make a representation to the Board?
§ THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION (Sir JOHN GORST, Cambridge University)The Committee of Council have no information upon the matter referred to. As they have no power to interfere, they do not propose to make any representation to the Board.