The Fleckmondwike School Board have carried an extra- constitutional measure
of an ingenious kind to assist them in their financial calculations. It was suggested that a committee of ladies would be desirable to share their financial labours, where- upon the chairman suggested that the best thing the Board could do would be to appoint their wives a committee charged with this duty,—which was carried by acclamation. If the ladies keep strictly to the discussion of small economies, we do not doubt they will make very useful suggestions ; but we must solemnly warn all School Boards against following this ingenious precedent in relation to the question of denominational fees,—in other words, to the religious difficulty. Under such atmospheric heat as that moral friction would evolve, school boards would soon be dissolved, and the Education Act itself burnt up like a scroll.
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