17.358.  Will  not  these  rules  with  regard  to  the  elomentary  schools,  for
example,  on  page  1  of  the  new  rules  anect  the  night  classes  P — ^No.
17.359.  Not  at  all  P — No.  Unless  a  school  organises  itself  to  follow  tliis
specific  course,  it  will  go  on  just  as  it  does  now,  and  the  higher  grade
schools  which  are  not  organiaed  tcience  schools  will  go  on  just  as  they  do
now,  I  suppose,  and  be  not  affected  ;  their  grants  are  not  touched ;  the
rules  remain  precisely  as  they  are.
17.360.  The  higher  grade  schools,  of  course,  many  of  them  have
organised  science  schools  P — A  certain  number,  yes.
17.361.  At  all  events,  in  our  neighbourhood.  Now,  turning  for  a
moment  to  the  day  schools.  Under  this  system  of  grants.  I  observe  that
under  the  suspension,  so  to  speak,  of  examination  in  detail,  there  would
be  a  very  great  deal  left  to  the  inspector  P — Yes.
17.362.  In  fact,  his  discretion  would  be  so  large  as  to  amount,  it  might
be,  in  certain  cases,  to  many  hundreds  a  jear  P — That  is  so,  as  the  rule
stands  now.  One  or  two  deputations  have  pressed  upon  the  Vice-President
the  necesiiity  for  alteriag  the  variation  in  the  amounts  under  the  three
heads,  and  that  subject  is  now  under  the  consideration  of  the  Yice-
President.  '"Whether  he  will  make  a  change  or  not  I  do  not  know,  but  it
has  been  pressed  apon  him,  and  it  is  under  consideration.  I  may  say  he
has  not  held  out  any  promise  that  he  would  modify  it,  but  it  is  under
consideration.
