SIR HOWARD VINCENTI beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education if he will con- 1376 sider, in communication with the War Office, the advisability of making military drill and rifle practice a branch of education entitling schools giving facility for training therein to a higher grant from the State than could otherwise be earned.
§ SIR J. GORSTIn the opinion of the Board of Education it would be inconsistent with the principle of the Block Grant to make special payment to schools for teaching any particular subject, how-over desirable in itself.