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Talent in the People's Schools. DENBIGHSHIRE'S BRILLIANT SCHOLARS. MR J. HERBERT ROBERTS, M.P., ON WELSH EDUCATIONAL METHODS. The members of the Denbighshire Education Committee, at Chester, on Friday, were in a cheery mood owing to the large proportion of candidates from the county schools in their area who achieved distinction in the Central Welsh Board's examin- tion this year. Mr W. G. Dodd, Llangollen, presided. ILLNESS OF THE ORGANISER. One note of anxiety was struck by the Chairman when he alluded to the illness of the organiser of education, Mr J. C. Davies. Mr Davies, he said, had just undergone an operation, and was reported to be going on satisfactorily.—(Applause.) COUNTY SUCCESSES. Upon the result of the Central Welsh Board examination the following county exhibitions were awarded :—Percy William Dodd, Wrexham (Boy5) School—the candidate who headed the honours' list, and received the Chief Inspectors gold medal— £ 30; David Edward Roberts, Ruabon County School, £ 30; Edward Arthur Hughes, Abergele County School, £ 2.5; Walter Prichard Dodd, Wrexham (Boys,) School, £ 25; Harold Gant, Ruabon County School, ^25 Nigel Owen Parry, Ruabon County School, [20. Mr L. J. Roberts, His Majesty's inspector of schools, writing to the secretaries, said :—" I cannot refrain from sending to the Local Education Authority my congratulations on the magnificent results by the Denbighshire candidates in various public examinations of late-notably in the King's Scholarship examination, the certificate examin- ations (in which very few counties attained such a high proportion of distinction as Denbighshire), and now in the Central Board examinations. The results are, of course, mainly due to the ability and the industry of the students themselves and to the good quality of the teaching in the schools but I am convinced that much is due also to the manner in which the old County Governing Body and now the Local Authority have linked together the primary and secondary schools. The splendid results in secondary examinations and the univer- sities of the old scholarship winners show that the capacity-catching machine' is a very effective one in Denbighshire. The county may well exult in its notable and many triumphs."—(Applause.) THE GOLD MEDALIST. The Chairman said it must be gratifying to think that the gold medal had come to Denbigh- shire once more. But it was becoming quite the thing to expect the gold medal to reach that county, as they had received it so many times dur- ing the last seven or eight years. Wrexham had been responsible for this, and it was a remarkable fact that two sons of an excellent head master in Wrexham should, within about five years, have each been successful in carrying off this distinction. Their late cplleague on that body, the father of these young men, was to be congratulated upon the brilliant success of his sons, who had done well not merely under the Welsh system but when they had gone to Oxford. SMALL WELSH SCHOOLS JUSTIFIED. Miss Gee said she was much struck by the fact that the small schools had done so well. Some educationists had over and over again found fault with the Welsh intermediate school system be- cause there were so many schools, while she had felt sympathy with the policy of having as many schools as they could keep efficient. She was therefore very glad to find the Chief Inspector's list proving that the smaller schools were doing such excellent work, and had justified their existence so well. Mr Isgoed Jones joined in the congratulation, and reminded Miss Gee that she in this instance had not been jubilant as to the successes of girls over the boys. He was glad to see that this time all the girls in the list from Denbighshire came from Ruthin.—(Applause and No.") Miss Gee said she was very shy on the subject mentioned by Mr Isgoed Jones, but she might point out that out of 23 teachers who passed the recent certificate examination in the county, 20 were women.—(Laughter and applause.) Mrs R. J. Powell said Mr Isgoed Jones had over- looked two girls in the list who belonged to the Wrexham school. Mr Isgoed Jones: So I have! It gives me pleasure to apologise. The county has done even better than I thought.—(Applause.) PARLIAMENTARY ADMIRATION. Mr J. Herbert Roberts, M.P., said he felt he had a responsibility in the matter, because not only was he a member of that Committee but he represented West Denbighshire in Parliament. He would like to join in congratulating all those who had contributed to these successes. It was a great satisfactson to him to feel that in the House of Commons educationists of both sides had the greatest respect and admiration for the Welsh system. It was a satisfactory fact in the present situation that, whilst they were necessarily in a condition of controversy upon many points, steady, solid, good work had been going on in the schools, and this showed what they could do when the atmostphere was clear and when both sections could heartily work together for the common end that they had before them.—(Applause.)

Prayer-Book out of Date. BISHOP OF BANGOR DEMANDS COMPLETE REVISION. The town of Pwllheli was this year selected by the Church people of the Bangor diocese for their annual conference. It was held on Thursday and attended by a large number of delegates. The meetings, which took place in the Church Hall, were presided over by the Bishop, who was supported by the Dean, Archdeacon Morgan, Canons Davies (vicar of Pwllheli), and Jones, (Criccieth), the Revs. J. P. Lewis (Conway), and D. R. Lewis, Sir H. J. Ellis Nanney, Colonel Gough, Colonel O. Lloyd, Mr J. Evans, Mr H. Lloyd Carter, Mr H. Kneeshaw, &c. The hon. secretary of the Conference was the Rev. J. E. Williams (vicar of Portmadoc), and the local arrangements were in charge of Canon Davies and the Rev. R. Cynfelin Jones. THE BISHOP'S ADDRESS. The Bishop, in opening the morning session of the Conference, alluded to the death of the Dowager Marchioness of Londonderry, to whom the un- qualified success of his first Conference held at Machynlleth, was mainly due. The Church was at present in troublous waters. Dealing with the Royal Commision on Ecclesiastical Discipline, he observed that to present a report and take no action thereon would be to let the ship drift into too great a danger. It was recommended that a new ornaments rubric be framed. But the question might be raised whether the time had not come for a complete revision of the Prayer-book, such as took place in • the reign of Charles II. (Cheers.) For 250 years the Prayer-book had remained un- altered, and yet during that period great changes had taken place in the political, social, and religious life or the nation, so that one could not use the Prayer-book without coming face to face with certain directions or expressions which were out of date. Hence the need of bringing the Prayer-book more'in conformity with the spiritual needs of the people.—(Cheers.) The risk he knew would be very great—(hear, hear), but the boldest course had often proved to be the safest in the end. THE WELSH COMMISSION. Another commission, which was about to be established, owed its existence to a totally different motive, a desire not to benefit but to injure the Church.-(" Shame.") It could not be denied that Disestablishment and Disendowment would be an injury to the Church, and should the result of-the Commission, instead, increase the influence and authority of the Church, was it uncharitable to suppose that many of the strongest advocates of that measure would be somewhat dissappointed.— (Laughter and Hear, hear.") The Commission would impose a great deal of labour on all Church people. Let them answer all questions put to them as fully, frankly, and accurately as possible.— (Hear, hear.) From what he knew of the members of the Commission, he thought they would strenuously do their duty. Let Churchmen there- fore see that so far as they could the Commission was not misled by deficient or faulty information. They should, however, remember that the good and usefulness of a church was not to be measured by the number of its adherents and the money it collec- ted, but by its influence on the souls of men, and if they looked at their Nonconformist brethren he thought they would find many instances where they had derived benefit from the presence of the Established Church. WEST RIDING JUDGEMENT. As to the decision on the West Riding case, he must frankly state that, coming as it did at a time when the members of the Government had left for their holidays, it had put Church people somewhat in a state of bewilderment. He did not see how the Government could, without great loss of prestige, avoid appealing against the decision. No man would accept an adverse decision in which four judges had pronounced in his favour and two against without carrying it further, unless he was afraid of the expense, and this could hardly apply to the Government. The call to do so was more imperative when they remembered that the learned judges had decided that the law failed to do something owing to bad draughtmanship which it was the express intention of the Legislature that it should do. What the effect of the decision would be he did not know. There were those who said that the decision covered all schools, council and non-provided, and that if the local education authority refused to pay for religious education in the one they were bound to do so in the other- (cheers),—so that the decision would at once estab- lish pure secularism or provide equal facilities in all schools alike for all denominations at their own expense. Later on he hoped they would be in a position to take counsel among themselves as to what action to take.—(Hear, hear.) ELECTION OF REPRESENTATIVES. The following were re-elected representatives for the Central Council of Diocesan Conferences The Revs. F. P. Watkin Davies (Llanfairfechan), J. T. Jones (Llanfairisgaer), J. P. Lewis (Conway), Sir H. J. Ellis Nanney, Mr H. Kneeshaw, and E. A. Young.

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Vicar of Conway on the Rights I of Churchmen. REMARKABLE SCENE AT DIOCESAN CONFERENCE. "THE DOOM OF THE CHURCH SCHOOLS." MR. LLOYD-GEORGE DESCRIBED AS PHAROAH." The Rev J. P. Lewis, M.A., Vicar of Conway, read an important paper at the Bangor Diocesan Conference at Pwllheli, on Thursday. The Bishop of Bangor presided. "A LEGALISED BREACH OF TRUST." How best may the Church instruct her children in the Christian faith under existing circumstances was the subject of the paper by the Rev J. P. Lewis, who remarked that the vital importance of religious education could not be exaggerated. Christian schools in the past had done more for the evangelis- ation of England than any other Christian ordi- nance, and to aim a blow at Christian schools was surely to aim a blow at the very breasts of Christ- ianity in our land. The question now was how far it was possible for the Church to give instruction in the Christian faith under the existing provisions of the Education Bill before Parliament. First of all, there was no Bible in school hours. When teachers and scholars were required to attend no Bible teaching was to be permitted, and yet the people were ignorant of such a momentous proposal. (Hear, hear.) Not only did the bill destroy all the religious teaching during school hours, but it also destroyed every security for it outside school hours. The bill, in fact, tore up the trust deeds of the Church. It legalised the greatest breach of trust proposed in modern times. (Cheers). As to the answer made that there were facilities, and even extended facilities, in the bill for religious teaching, he described them as negative facilities. The Church had about a million of her children in the State-provided council schools, and, both as parents of about half the children and as payers of more than half the rates, Church people had a right to expect some consideration for their wishes respect- ing the religious instruction of their own children attending those schools. In Ireland and in the provided schools of Germany the wishes of the parents were respected, and in Scotland the Pres- byterian Catechism was taught in the board schools. ROMANISING THE COUNTRY. The Churchpeople of this country asked for no privilege or favour for their one million children in the council schools-they merely pleaded for the right enjoyed in the other countries mentioned. (Hear, hear). In the case of Church schools the so- called facilities were again a misnomer. The conditions attached to the extended facilities" under clause 4, and to rate-aided schools under clause 5, were so many and so oppressive that those two clauses would become practically, if not abso- lutely, a dead letter as far as the Church schools in the diocese went. Owing to the condition regard- ing population, a Roman Catholic teacher might give Roman Catholic teaching at Bangor or Car- narvon, while the Church teacher must be gagged at Pwllheli and Conway. Moreover, under clause 4, as it stood, they would see the Roman Catholic teacher on the one side of the street free to teach as the Pope directed, while on the other side 01 the street in the same town the Church teacher must remain mute, or give only the religious lesson, if any, which was drawn up by a possibly Agnostic writer of the County Council. (Cheers.) Talk about Romanising the country Clause 4 would send more children and teachers to Rome in twelve months than the Welsh clergy ever sent there in three hundred years. This left the Churchpeople in the Bangor diocese with clause 3 a" their only hope of obtaining any facilities for teaching the Christian faith to their own children in their own schools and at,their own expense. But what was the facility worth when the instruction could not be given during school hours, when the teachers and scholars were not required to attend, and when no teacher of the school would be permitted to give it outside school hours. The acceptance of this sham offer would be used as a means of beating down the price to be paid for seizing compulsorily the school buildings which Churchpeople had built and pro- vided at great cost. (Cheers.) It was now the eleventh hour, and the clock was about to strike the doom of the Church schools. Whatever was to be done must be done quickly Even now, if Church- people were united and alert in spreading true in- formation regarding the provisions of the bill, the country would declare against the secularism and the needless burden of universal council schools, just as it had declared for 30 years against the secularism and needless expenditure of board schools. (Cheers.) The hearts of the people were with Churchmen in the demand that religious teaching should be given, not according to the varying whims of political elections, but in accord- ance with the solemn convictions and desires of the responsible parents and they were also with them in their deep conviction that no settlement could be satisfactory which asked either Nonconformists or Churchmen to sacrifice principles. (Cheers.) GULF BETWEEN CLERGY AND LAITY. Mr. John Jones (Carnarvon) urged that greater efforts should be made to fill up the great gulf which existed between the clergy and the laity. The Rev. T. Owen (Bottwnog) followed with a spirited speech, which provoked some opposition. He insisted upon the duty of the clergy, according to the oath taken by them, to see to the religious instruction of the young by means of agencies directly connected with the Church. The import- ance of such instruction in early years was incalcul- able. Not long ago the complaint was made at Pwllheli that the summer visitors in a neighbouring parish flocked into the parish church although they were Nonconformists. But were they not members of the so-called Free Church ? (Laughter.) What a freedom it surely was? He pitied that church and its children. They were being pursued and watched by Pharoah even on their holidays. (Laughter.) He ventured to say that if the mem- bers of the Free Church were only permitted to enjoy true freedom they would soon show their appreciation of the difference between the old wheat of the country and German chaff. (Laugh- ter.) Discussing the attitude of the Welsh County Council to religious instruction in schools he charac- terised it as pharisaical. Their syllabuses looked remarkably well on paper, but were a mere sham in practice. He awaited with curiosity the action of the Carnarvonshire County Council in face of the West Riding judgment. (A voice—" Subject.") The speaker said that the subject was the reduction of salaries. NO POLITICS." The Rev. T. Waller (Llanfechell), who sat in the body of the hall, remarked, This is not apolitical meeting, is it, my lord ? (Cries of Go on," and cheers.) The Rev. T. Owen then resumed, and declared that whatever the attitude of the County Council might be the Church was determined never to re- lease her hold of the schools. (Loud cheers.) Sir H. J. Ellis Nanney expressed a hope that the Government would lose no time in making up their mind as to what they proposed to do with the schools of the country, and so relieve parents, teachers, and the country generally of much uncer- tainty and anxiety. Mr. H. Lloyd Carter regretted that there should have been one discordant note struck against the able address of Mr. Owen, who could not well have avoided touching the question in .the way he had done. Rev. T. Walters: He might have done it in a better spirit. THE TEACHERS' SALARIES. Mr. Carter If he could not have discussed this question without being told that he was talking I politics it would have been impossible for us at present to meet at a diocesan conference. (Hear, hear.) Proceeding, he asked, was it for politics that Church people built their schools ? Was it for politics that the poor diocese of Bangor had raised during two years the sum of zC13,000 in order to meet the requirements of the local education authority ? (Loud cheers.) He maintained that this was a subject which affected the very life-blood of the Church. (Cheers.) The proposal of the Carnarvonshire County Education Committee to deduct 10 per cent. from the grant earned by voluntary school teachers for imparting secular instructions was both dishonest and cowardly. As the correspondent of the Carnarvon non-pro- vided school he could say that the managers were not going to be dismayed by the threat of the education authority. (Cheers.) They had decided with the approval and concurrence of the vicar, to contend that the threat of the education authority was illegal in Carnarvonshire if it was legal in the West Riding. (Loud cheers.) If the salaries of teachers were to be docked then, until the emerg- ency had passed by, he appealed to his fellow- Churchmen to continue to support the schools. At Carnarvon at any rate they would take care that the purposes for which the schools were built would not be abandoned, but that definite religious instruction would again be given by the master or somebody else within school hours. (Cheers.) MR LLOYD-GEORGE AND THE CATECHISM. The Rev Thomas Edwards (Gwynedd) asserted that the Carnarvonshire Education Authority paid more to the teachers of the provided schools than they did to those of the non-provided schools for doing the same amount of work. (" Quite true.") All that the Church contended for was freedom to all the religious bodies to enter the schools. The Rev J. Rowlands (Aberdovey) also spoke, as well as the Rev. E. Evans (Llansadwrn), who created much laughter by referring to the fact that he had taught Mr Lloyd-George the Catechism at the Llanystymdwy National School.

School Attendance in Carnarvonshire. LLANFAIRFECHAN RETAINS THE SHIELD. SAVING THE RATEPAYERS' MONEY. At Thursday's meeting of the Carnarvonshire Education Committee, it was recommended that the challenge shields be awarded to the following schools that have obtained the highest percentages in their various departments for the past year Boys's school, Llanfairfechan N.P., 97 9 girls' school, Carnarvon P., 95-9 mixed, Bettwsgarmon P., 99-5 infants', Nantmor P., 971. The shields for the boys' and girls' departments having been won by the same schools in two con- secutive years, now become the property of the Llanfairfechan Boys' and Carnarvon Girls' Council Schools respectively. The schools which came second on the list in their various departments are :-Boys', Penygroes P., 97-0; girls', Carnarvon N.P., 94*9; mixed, Borthygest P., 98-9 infants', Talybont P., 96-3 Borthygest P., 96*3. It was reported that 248 children were entitled to receive medals for full attendance since the appointed day. Resolved that the same sum of money be expended on medals this year as was spent on watches last year, and that estimates and designs be obtained. It was reported that 2,319 children were en- titled to a 1St class book prize, and 2,561 to a 2nd class book prize. Resolved that the books awarded be those published at 2s and is 6d respectively. The undermentioned are the figures for the respective districts for the quarter ended June 30th, 1006:—■ Percentage ot District. Attendance. i Bangor. 93'6 2 Carnarvon 93'2 3 Llanberis 91*2 4 Portmadoc 90*9 5 Penygroes 90 8 6 Geirionydd 907 7 Bethesda. go'6 8 Conway 90-2 9 Bottwnog 82-3 10 Pwllheli 82" 1 Total. go'3 STATISTICS FOR ALL CHILDREN IN THE COUNTY. Quarter Quarter ending ending June 30th, June 30th. Appointed 1906. YL 905. day. Average No. on books. 22721-9 20453-6 22513.0 Averageattendance 20072-2 18431*2 17781-0 Percentage of atteadance 88-3 go* I 78-9 Children under five not included in the attend- ances for June, 1905. A Board of Education return was submitted showing that the average attendances on which grants were paid for the year ending March, 31st, 1906, was 20,095, as compared with 19,129 for the previous year. This shows an increase of 966, which represents an increased grant of about j £ I>932.

Welsh Kicked Out. NO ROOM FOR "NATIONAL" LANGUAGE IN "NATIONAL" SCHOOLS. Letters were submitted at Friday's meeting of the Denbighshire Education Authority from the head teachers of the Derwen, Llanelidan, and Pentrefoelas non-provided schools, stating that the scheme for instruction in Welsh could not be put into operation in the infants' departments, as these departments were in charge of teachers who were unable to teach Welsh. The head teacher of the Johnstown Council School asked that this shool should be classified as an English-speaking school. It was decided that the scheme, as regards these four schools, be adjourned for the preseut. Mr William Griffith (Llanfair) expressed his surprise that three schools in the heart of the Welsh-speaking portions of the county should have to abandon for the present the scheme of instruction in Welsh, and he hoped the authority would not bear with that state of things much longer. Mr Gomer Roberts (Llanelidan) said he had personal knowledge of the Llanelidan and Derwen schools, and was certain that every teacher in the former and every teacher but the head teacher in the latter could teach Welsh. Perhaps the ob- jection to teaching Welsh was that it was not convenient to do so. It was most desirable that these schools should join the other schools in carrying out the scheme. Mr J. Wilcoxon, on behalf of the Staff Com- mittee, said that Welsh should be taught at these schools more than at any other schools in the county, and the Committee would not let the matter lie where it was.

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Conway Expenses. To THE EDITOR OF THE Weekly News. Sir,—There are two or three questions being discussed by the ratepayers of Conway which are of more than passing interest. In view of the fact that we have recently paid large sums for legal expenses in this borough, it is high time that every possible means should be adopted to prevent the continued increase of such expenses. Unless this is done, it is quite probable that we shall again find ourselves saddled with increased rates in the near future. There is a law suit still pending betwean the Crown and the Conway Corporation of a most expensive character with regard to the ownership of the bed of the Conway river, which is slowly dragging its weary way along, and as nothing has transpired in public recently about this matter, it is feared that these protracted proceedings will mean very heavy legal costs for Conway rate- payers. Indeed, it would be very interesting for us to know what are the legal costs which have already been incurred on our behalf, up to the present time, and what are the prospects of a settlement-or whether we are to fight this matter out to the bitter end. Moreover, I have never been able to understand why the Conway Corporation need go all the way to Bangor for a legal adviser, when there are able solicitors resident in this borough who would be only too pleased to place their services at our disposal at a less cost to us than at present, and as they are ratepayers they would have a personal interest in keeping down the rates of the borough. Economy in legal expenses, however, can only be effected by the loyal co-operation of the Corporation and its officials, and I venture to think that if this were practised we should not have our legal representative threatening to harass boatmen by announcing his intention to take fresh legal pro- ceedings aganst them after he had failed to get them convicted for an alleged breach of a bye-law. Another subject is one which is being brought forward very prominently in trades union and labour circles. It is the question of how public bodies should deal with their employees who have loyally worked for them for many years. There is a tendency in some quarters to get rid of old hands to make room for younger ones. For instance, in one works in North Wales it is alleged that all the older hands have been gradually superseded. It has been stated that some public men outside this borough have intimated that employees under a Corporation are too old at forty years of age." Whilst I have never heard that any public man in Conway has expressed an opinion of this nature, now that it is coming to the point, some principle ought to be laid down to which public bodies should adhere in matters of this kind. It is quite true that young men are full of life, vigour and enthusiasm, but I venture to think that if we adopt the principle of too old at forty," we shall find that even young men will hesitate to accept employment—where they understand that there is to be no security of tenure and that after a few years of faithful honest work they will be liable to be thrown aside like a worn out glove or an old shoe. The principle should, therefore, be plainly laid down that public bodies might show a praise- worthy example to other firms of dealing honour- ably with all their workmen and officials, so that the older hands may feel that their experience, long service, ripe and mature judgment is valued by their employers, and so long as they have faithfully and honestly worked in their best and most vigorous days they may feel assured that their services will be retained whilst they may be able and willing to serve, and that although they have passed their prime we are not unmindful of past services, and consequently will not cast them out upon a cold world after the best years of their life have been spent in our employ. As one who has all his life had to labour for his livelihood, I go even further than that, and say that when a man has laboured for an employer during what are regarded as the best years of his lire he ought not to be harassed in his declining years, but should receive every consideration at the hands of those who have benefitted so long by his labours in the past.—Yours truly, Deganwy, Sept. 29th, 1906. J. T. MORGAN.

Conway Petty Sessions. • THE OXFORD HOTEL, LLANDUDNO. Mr Kneeshaw (Chairman) presided at these Sessions on Monday. The other Magistrates on the Bench were Colonel H. Lloyd Mostyn, Dr R. Arthur-Prichard, Mr J. W. Raynes and Mr J. Adey Wells. LICENSING. The transfer of the license of the Fairy Glen Hotel, Dwygyfylchi, from Mrs Butler to Mrs Jane Parry was applied for and granted. Mr Vincent Johnson, Llandudno, applied for the transfer of the license of the Oxford Hotel, Llan- dudno, from the present tenant, Mrs Jessie Wallis, to Mr John Henry Jones, accountant, of Llandudno. Mr Jones is a trustee for the estate under a deed of assignment, this course being taken for the pro- tection of the owners. In reply to the Chairman, Superintendent Rees said he had no objection, and the application was granted. DRUNKENNESS. For drunkenness on the highway leading from Conway to Penmaenmawr, on the 24th of last month, George Owen, Bryn Terrace, Gyffin, was fined 2S 6d and costs. For drunkenness and disorderly conduct in Pool Lane, Conway, on the 23rd, David Jones was fined 5s and costs. The evidence showed that accused had been fighting with his father in his father's house.

Teachers' Salaries. At the meeting of the Carnarvonshire Education Committee at Carnarvon on Thursday, presided over by Mr. D. P. Williams, the committee adopted a scale of salaries for all classes of teachers except certificated assistants and head teachers. As to these, it was decided to give notice to determine all the existing engagements on the 31st December with the view to the adoption of a new scale in their case. The new salaries of the supplemental teachers will be paid from Monday, October ist. Pupil- teachers will receive £ 12 to £ 20; candidate assistants, (-20 Article 68 teachers, C30 to £ 4.0 Article 50 teachers, females, C50 to £60, males £ 55 to £ 6> It is proposed that the scales for certificated assistants and head teachers should be as follows :— Certificated teachers (untrained),females f, 70 to £ 85, males £75 to Cgo trained two years, females c80 to ;Ci io, males £85 to £ 120, the annual increment to be £5 trained three years, females C85 to £ 115, males Cgo to £125. Head teachers:—trained, males Cioo to £ 200, females £ "95 to £ 190; untrained, males Cgo to £180, females £ 85 to £170. Mr. Richard Davies stated that the scale, when it came fully into operation, would mean an increased expenditure in the county of £ 1,764. Some question being raised as to the delay in bringing the scale into operation with respect to to the uncertificated teachers, the Chairman said that the classes to which the scale was to immediately apply were the classes in regard to which there was the greatest inequality of payment. (Hear, hear.) The Staff Committee hoped to have all the regulations drafted by the next meeting, and that it would be possible then to confirm the scale with respect to the certificated teachers. (Hear, hear).