§ MR. SLOANTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if, in the case of amalgamation of two schools, boys' and girls', where the girls' school has an assistant and principal but the boys' a principal teacher only, and if the attendance in the amalgamated school did not maintain an average of ninety-five, he can say whether the three teachers would be retained, or would the assistant in the girls' school in such a case have to go.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Commissioners of National Education inform me that, in the case supposed in the Question, they would continue to recognise the three teachers, provided that an average attendance of the amalgamated school of not less than fifty girls should be maintained.