§ LORD R. CECIL (Marylebone, E.)To ask the President of the Board of Education, whether the Welsh Department of the Board of Education exercises the powers of the Board under the Charitable Trusts Act with regard to Wales; whether any officer of the Charitable Trusts section of the Board has been transferred to the Welsh Department; and whether there is any lawyer in the Welsh Department trained in Charity Commission work.
(Answered by Mr. McKenna.) The powers of the Board of Education under the Charitable Trusts Acts are exercised by the Board and not by any department of it. The Welsh Department have the advice of the legal branch where legal questions are concerned. The Answer to the last paragraph is in the affirmative.
§ LORD R. CECILTo ask the President of the Board of Education, upon what grounds the decision given in February, 1906, by the Charitable Trusts section of the Board of Education with reference to the Devonald endowment, Narberth, Pembrokeshire, which held the trust to be a denominational one, has been reversed by the Welsh Department of the Board, and a scheme substituted, alienating two-thirds of the endowment to secular purposes; whether an attempt to secularise this charity was made by the county council in 1896; and whether the Charity Commissioners then held the trust to be denominational.
(Answered by Mr. McKenna.) This endowment was founded by deed of 31st March, 1832, for the maintenance of a free school, the only reference to Church teaching being contained in a recital. The Board of Education have not reversed their decision of February, 1906, to treat the trust as denominational; but, having 1549 regard to all the circumstances of the case, including the change in the conditions of public education since the date of the original foundation, and upon consideration of the numerous objections received from the local education authority and numerous other public bodies locally interested, as well as the representations made by the trustees, the Board have come to the conclusion that justice can best be done to all interests by an appointment of the endowment as follows: One-third of the income to be allotted to the rector and churchwardens of Narberth for the purposes of solely religious instruction, with liberty to apply such income to managers' purposes of the Narberth Church of England School, and the remaining two-thirds to be administered by a representative governing body, of which the rector would be an ex-officio member, for the advancement of secular education in the locality by means of exhibitions tenable at institutions of higher education without religious restrictions. The Board cannot find that any opinion as to the denominational character of the trust was expressed by the Charity Commissioners in 1896 or about that time. The foundation was the subject of communication between the Charity Commissioners and persons locally interested in 1895 with a view to a scheme under the Welsh intermediate Education Act, but no
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| 1904 | 52 | 6 | 47 | 6 | 49 | 0 | 44 | 0 |
| 1905 | 51 | 6 | 47 | 0 | 48 | 0 | 43 | 0 |
| 1906 | 51 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 47 | 6 | 43 | 6 |
| 1907 | 53 | 0 | 49 | 0 | 51 | 0 | 47 | 0 |