§ He wants in addition to the colossal sum which already appears on his Estimates a further contribution from the Exchequer to meet the special exigencies of certain necessitous school districts, of which East and West Ham are the type—;districts where you have side by side an exceptionally poor population and an exceptionally high school rate. The problem is not a new one. For some time it has taxed the Education Office and knocked at the doors of the Treasury. I cannot either deny the urgency or resist the justice of the demand; and I propose to devote—;I will not say to its solution, but, at any rate, to its appeasement—;the sum of £135,000 out of the surplus. It is clearly to be understood that this is a temporary grant for the existing year.