§ Mr. PETOasked the President of the Board of Agriculture whether his attention has been called to the fact that the education authority has ordered improvements in the Church school, to cost about £120, in the parish of Bromham, Wilts, one-half of the land in which parish is the property of the Crown; whether he has refused to make any contribution, as landlord, towards the expense of the improvement 1058W of the schools; and, if so, whether there is any reason for exceptional treatment in this case, or whether it is a settled policy I of his Department to give no assistance to I Church schools and throw the whole onus I of their maintenance upon private owners of property?
§ Mr. RUNCIMANI am aware of the facts, but I am not able to authorise payments of money from Crown funds to be spent on schools not under complete public control.