I beg to ask the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that on 22nd December, 1905, the governors of Over Peover endowed school passed a resolution in favour of transferring to the estate of the late Sir Philip Mainwaring a plot of land attached to the school which had been held by the governors for the purposes of a school garden since 1874; that the parish council of Over Peover dispute the power of the governors to make this transfer; that the resolution of the governors was only carried by a majority of two, and that of the governors present and voting in the majority, two were members of the Mainwaning family; and whether he proposes to hold a public inquiry into the natter in dispute.

This matter is now engaging the attention of the Board, but I am not in a position to make any statement on the subject.