§ Mr. LONSDALEasked the Chief Secretary if his attention has been called to Rules 105 (a) and 105 (b) of the National Commissioners of Education providing (hat teachers promoted from a lower to a higher grade receive on promotion the salary fixed for the grade to which they are promoted, and that awards of continued good service salary are made triennially to the teachers of schools with an average attendance of twenty or above when the work done in the school shows merit and the general condition of the school is satisfactory; if he is aware that these rules have been violated in the case of five teachers promoted to first-of-second grade and eight promoted to first-of-first grade in 1909, and thirty-one promoted to first-of-second grade and twelve promoted to first-of-first grade in 1910; and if he will state the amount saved to the Treasury in each year respectively by this departure from the rules of the Commissioners?
§ Mr. BIRRELLI am aware of the rules referred to. The Commissioners of National Education inform me that it would take considerable time to determine the amount withheld from the teachers in consequence of the limitation of numbers in the higher grades.