§ MR. MCKENNA () Monmouthshire, N.To ask the Secretary to the Board of Education whether, with a view to the guidance of the School Boards, which, in the ordinary course, will shortly have to make a precept for the expenses of the coming half year, he can state what will be the appointed day for the coming into operation of the Education Act in the county of Monmouth.
(Answered by Sir William Anson.) The Board are making an Order for fixing 1st June as the appointed day for the coming into operation of the Education Act in the county of Monmouth, or such later date as the Board may appoint. I have every hope that no delay beyond 1st June will be necessary; but, as has been explained to the county council, the Board of Education do not consider it consistent with their duty to bring the Act into operation in an area where the local authority has decided not to administer the Act in its integrity.
†See (4) Debates, cxxx., 987.‡See (4) Debates, cxxxi., 282.