On Wednesday the discussion turned chiefly on the repre- sentation
of minorities, for which apparently the Opposition wished, though after inveighing against the scheme of the Government for giving too much power to the local authority, they now denounced it because it was prepared to give it too little, and to make the Education Authority, when once estab- lished by the County or Borough Council, just as independent of it in its executive work as a Watch Committee is of a Municipal Council. Mr. Atherley Jones's amendment proposing to make the County or Borough Council themselves the Education Authority, was rejected by a majority of 175 (293 to 118). Bnt it is obvious that many of the Opposition wish to resist the popular authority wherever the Government propose it, and to support it wherever the Government want to modify it for the purpose of more fairly representing a minority.
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