§ 4. Mr. KINGasked the hon. Member for Dumbartonshire, as representing the Charity Commissioners, whether there has been received any request from the Charity Trustees of the Wilby, Suffolk, parochial charities for a new scheme, under which the funds might be utilised better at this time of national necessity; and whether the Charity Commissioners are facilitating the objects which the trustees of these charities have in view?
§ Mr. A. A. ALLEN (Beprescnting the Charity Commissioners)Two-sevenths of the income of the Wilby Town Estates Charity are applicable for ecclesiastical purposes. The Charity Commissioners have received from the trustees of the Town Estates Charity, at Wilby, requests for a scheme which should provide that the remaining five-sevenths of the income of the original charity should be employed for the benefit of the poor. One of such five-sevenths is already so applicable. As regards the remaining four sevenths, which under the subsisting trusts are applicable for educational purposes, and therefore are under the jurisdiction of the Board of Education, the Commissioners have no power to make a scheme.