I  should  like  to  adopt  every  word  of  that  question,  and  to  add  one  or  two
observations.  In  the  &:st  place  I  would  ask  to  be  allowed  to  put  in  an
extract  from  our  36th  Beport,  which  is  the  only  statement  which  approaches
to  completeness  that  l^e  have  hitherto  made  of  our  educational  work.  It
brings  into  considerable  prominence  a  statement  of  the  necessity  under
which  we  found  ourselves  of  looking  after  the  schemes  after  they  have
been  made,  and  the  reasons  which  led  us  to  consider  that  the  work  is  really
permanent  work.  It  is  a  tolerably  concise  statement.  (See  Appendix  No,  5.)
But  besides  that  I  should  be  glad  to  be  allowed  ia  answer  to  your  question
to  refer  to  a  speech  of  Mr.  Boby's  made  on  the  13th  July  1891.  It  is  a
speech  which  I  heard  and  which  made  a  great  impresfiion  on  my  mind  at  the
tune,  and  it  is  a  statement  which  I  think  is  exceedingly  pregUant  on  several
points  in  which  the  Commission  are  interested.  I  hope  to  be  allowed  to
refer  to  it  in  another  connexion  later  on,  but  at  present  I  should  like  to  be
fdlowed  to  refer  to  this  passage : — ''I  do  not  look  at  these  schemes  as
"  permanent  documents  intended  to  last  unaltered  for  a  long  time.  They
*^  are  simply  formal  statutory  rules  for  governing  particular  endowments,
"  and  they  ought  to  be  continually  subject  to  reconsideration  and  amend-
"  ment,  so  that  they  may  be  made  to  meet  the  different  circumstances
"  of  each  county  or  locahty."  That  is  from  the  CCCLV.  Volume  of
Hansard,  page  1,264.
