§ Mr. JOHNSTONasked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he is aware that no offer of reinstatement to a headmastership has yet been made by the Education Committee of the County Council of Dumbarton to Mr. George Murray, lately headmaster at Lenzie Academy; that the decision to degrade Mr. Murray was pronounced as illegal by the Court of Session; and that since that decision Mr. Murray has been employed at a headmaster's salary upon an ordinary teacher's duties; and whether he will draw the attention of the auditors of the accounts of the education committee to the continued payment of two headmasters' salaries in the school in which Mr. Murray is employed?
§ Sir G. COLLINSI am informed that this matter is on the point of being settled in a way which is likely to satisfy all the parties concerned, and in the circumstances I do not think it is desirable that I should intervene. The question of the legality of the expenditure is one for the auditor appointed under section 15 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1929.