§ Captain BULLOCKasked the President of the Board of Education if he is aware of the feeling in urban districts that non-provided schools should be treated on exactly the same basis as provided schools in respect of any extra financial outlay entailed by the raising of the school-leaving age; whether he has received any resolutions from town councils to this effect; and what action he proposes to take as a result of these resolutions?
§ Sir C. TREVELYANI have received a certain number of resolutions from local authorities in the sense of the first part of the question. In regard to the last part of the question, private conversations have been taking place on the subject of the non-provided schools, but it would not be helpful for me to make any public statement at present.