10.890.  There  are  cases  in  which  a  county  borough  has  not  got  a  school
board  but  only  a  school  attendance  committee.  In  those  cases  would  you
give  it  to  the  school  attendance  committee  ? — No.  Then  I  should  make
this  committee  the  elementary  authority.  I  shall  presently  propose  a  plan
by  which,  with  local  approval,  the  secondarv  education  committees  in
boroughs  should  always  take  the  place  of  school  boards  under  certain
regulations.  But  in  a  cose  where  there  was  no  school  board  I  should
liave  no  doubt  that  the  Secondaiy  Education  committee  should  be  the
elementary  education  committee,  and  in  place  of  the  members  which
would,  if  there  were  a  school  board,  be  elected  by  it,  I  would  have  further
members  elected  by  the  council.
10.891.  Take  Lancashire,  for  instance,  because  it  contains  a  great
number  of  county  boroughs ;  yeur  scheme  for  Lancashire  would  be  that
outside  the  county  boroughs  you  would  have  one  county  authority  con-
stituted as  you  have  told  us,  and  for  each  county  borough  you  would  also
have  an  educational  authority  constituted  as  vou  have  told  us,  and  the
only  relation  between  the  county  at  large  and  the  several  county  boroughs
within  its  limits  would  be  such  as  might  grow  out  of  the  power  of  appoint-
ing joint  committees? — Certainly  ;  except  such  as  would  be  produced  by
the  formation  and  working  of  the  provincial  authority  to  be  presently
mentioned.
