§ MR. HAYI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether the service of a teacher in a poor law school is held recorded service as defined by the Elementary School Teachers Superannuation Act, 1898, and therefore under the existing Code entitles such a teacher to the issue of a parchment certificate under Article 63D; whether it is intended to remove professional distinction, if any, between teachers in poor law schools and those employed in other elementary schools, in order to-secure that local Boards of Guardians 1193 shall be able to obtain the services in poor law schools of qualified and efficient teachers.
§ THE PRESIDENT OF the LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. WALTER LONG,) Bristol, S.The answer to the first point is in the negative. It appears, however, from the reply given recently to a similar Question addressed to my right hon. friend the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education, that service in a poor law school is now accepted by the Board of Education for the purposes of Article 63 of the existing Code, and that in the Code of 1902 the Article will be included in a clearer form.