§ Captain NEWTON KNIGHTSasked the President of the Board of Education, whether he is now in a position to give a ruling as to whether it is part of the educational duties of a headmaster, under Article 15 of the Code, to undertake the supervision, accounting, and payment of permanent and/or casual labour employed at any time upon school premises?
§ Mr. FISHERIt would not, I think, be proper for me to attempt to give a general ruling, and I am sure it would be imprudent. Any specific case in which it is alleged that Article 15 of the Code is being contravened must be considered on its merits, and I could not decide it without hearing what the Local Education Authority have to say. In the only actual case which has come under my notice, the teacher who complained was informed by the Local Education Authority that, if he wished, he would be relieved of certain work to which he objected.