§ Mr. CHARLES CRAIGasked the Chief Secretary whether the resolutions adopted by the National Board of Education in 1899, relative to the new system, contained a proviso that the case of Queen's scholars then in training was to be reserved; and will he state why, in view of this resolution, the Commissioners of National Education paid twenty-seven Queen's scholars of the year 1899 the ordinary salary of £56 per annum, while they paid two of equal rank, classification and age an initial salary of £75 per annum.
§ Mr. BIRRELLI would refer the hon. Member to my reply to the question of the hon. Member for East Down on this subject on 18th April, 1912, to which I have nothing to add.