§ DR. MACNAMARA (Camberwell, N.)I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education 1413 whether he will submit to the law officers of the Crown the question whether municipal councils may make subventions from the funds at their disposal, under the Technical Instruction Acts, to school boards in aid of the instruction of adult pupils at evening schools in the obligatory and standard subjects of the Whitehall code.
*THB VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE BOAED OF EDUCATION (Sir J. GORST, Cambridge University)This question would be decided in the first instance by the local authority under the Technical Instruction Acts; then, by the Local Government Board auditor; and finally by the Courts of Law. The Board of Education have no jurisdiction to interfere, and would not be justified in asking the opinion of the Law Officers merely to gratify their curiosity. I may add that, so far as I know, instruction of this kind is now given without objection being taken.
§ DR. MACNAMARAIs it not the fact that the right hon. Gentleman has referred the Leeds School Board to the municipal authorities?
§ *MR. SPEAKEROrder, order!