§ MR. BOLANDI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he will explain why, in the case of mixed schools of boys and girls under a master only, in which the average attendance is not sufficient to authorise the appointment of an assistant teacher, there is not any provision in the rules of the Commissioners of National Education to secure that the girls of all ages and the infant boys should be taught by a female, in view of the grounds on which they justify and enforce Rule 127 (b).
§ MR. ATKINSONThe rules specially provide that a manual instructress may be employed in a school of the kind referred to. About 700 of these instructresses are already employed in such schools.