§ Sir PHILIP MAGNUSasked the President of the Board of Education whether he can state the total number of persons on the old register of teachers under Column B when the register was closed; the number of such persons to whom the fee of one guinea paid for registration has been refunded as promised; and whether he wil state what steps were taken to inform registered teachers that their fee would be returned on application?
Mr. PEASEThe answer to the first part of the question is 11,660. On the 29th February the Board announced that they were prepared to receive, until 31st August, 1912, applications for repayment of the guinea by teachers on admis-2110W sion to Column B of the previous register. The announcement was published in thirty-nine papers, including all the educational papers, and was communicated to all the appointing bodies (fifty-three in number) mentioned in the Schedule to the Order in Council constituting a new Registration Council. Four thousand five hundred and eighty-one persons whose names were registered in Column B applied for a refund before the 31st August, 1912, and received their guinea.