He proposes that the non-provided, or denominational, schools should receive
grants of public money to enable them to carry on and to recondition their buildings. The only other change he would make in these schools would be that the appointment of teachers should rest with the local educational authority and not with the school- managers. This seems to us to be a sensible compromise, When public money is given there must be a proportional degree of public control. Many members of the Bourne- mouth Conference, however, criticized Sir Charles's speech rather caustically. A resolution was passed demanding a " conscience clause " for any . teacher who might be appointed to a non-provided school by a local education authority. We can only trust that all this does not presage a revival of the enervating and superfluous " religious eonttoversy " of former years.
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