§ Mr. ELLIS GRIFFITHasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether an application was received from the Anglesey local education authority, through the Board of Education, for the release of two teachers serving in the Army, who are now classified A 2 and C 3 respectively; whether this authority has released all their assistant teachers who are fit for general service and two of their head teachers to serve in the Army; whether the teacher who is classified C 3 is doing menial work, such as could be performed by a labourer; and whether, seeing that the authority has difficulty in staffing their schools owing to the number of men released for the Army, the Army authorities will accede to the request of the Anglesey education authority?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONYes, Sir; an application has been received for the release of these two men. No men who are medically fit for general service are released; the question of transferring to the Reserve men of lower medical categories, who were previously school teachers, is at present under consideration. According to information in the possession of the War Office the C 3 man was a student in a training college immediately prior to enlistment, and not in the employment of the Anglesey local education authority.