§ Mr. CROOKEasked the President of the Board of Education why, in view of the fact that training college students having been called up for War service and being found no unfit, were transferred to Army -Reserve W and refused permission by the Board to complete their course of training, the period spent in Army Reserve W is not allowed to count as War service in the assessment of the salaries of such students, seeing that they had no choice in the matter but were forced to have a break in their training?
§ Mr. TREVELYANThe Board have throughout acted on the principle that service in a civilian capacity cannot be recognised as war service for the purpose of calculating increments of salary for teachers in public elementary schools. It is possible that this principle may involve hardship to certain individuals, but to depart from it world Obviously entail a very wide extension Of the practice which has been in operation since 1921 in dealing with cases of war service.