§ MR. WEIR, (Ross and Cromarty)I beg to ask the Lord Advocate whether the Secretary for Scotland is aware that, under Articles 50 and 51 of the Continuation Class Code, the grant is so regulated that the managers of some of the continuation schools in the poorer districts of the Highland Crofting Counties have declared it to be impossible to keep the schools open owing to their inability to raise the requisite local contribution. And, in view of the amount to which the rates in these districts have already risen, will he state whether the Secretary for Scotland will reconsider the Code at an early date, with a view to its being so modified as to admit: of these continuation schools being maintained.
§ * THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. A. GRAHAM MURRAY,) ButeshireI am afraid it is not possible to add anything 1019 to the reply which I gave to the Member for Orkney and Shetland on 3rd February last,† a copy of which was sent for the information of the hon. Member in reply to an application by his Secretary. The Revised Continuation Class Code is not placed before Parliament until May in each year.