§ Mr. KINGasked whether the Culver Street non-provided school, Colchester, has been charging fees to elementary school children; and that the school is now condemned on the ground of structural defects and lack of playing-ground; and whether it is the policy of the Board to allow local education authorities to sanction fees in schools carried on in condemned buildings and with a curriculum not superior to that of free schools?
Mr. PEASEThe answers to the first and second parts of the question are in the affirmative. The fees at this school are chargeable under the Elementary Education Act, 1891, and the Board have no power to require their abolition or reduction.