§ Mr. HYDEasked the President of the Board of Education whether his attention has been called to the recent action of the Staffordshire Education Committee in re fusing the application from Mr. W. H. Ingley, assistant-master in the Quarry Bank Council School, to be absent once in six weeks from 10.30 to 12 during the ensuing 11 months in order to sit as a magistrate; whether the reason for such refusal was that it would create a serious precedent; whether the Board of Education sanctions schoolmasters acting as magistrates; and what action he proposes to take in the matter?
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§ Mr. RUNCIMANThe Board of Education have received no official information as to this case. The question appears to be at present entirely between the local education authority and one of the teachers in its employment, and the Board have no power to revise the decision at which the authority are stated to have arrived.