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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1025, 14 January 1911, Page 12

Sir Eichard Stapley has addressed a letter to the Lord Mayor of London announcing his resignation from the King Edward Memorial Committee. He says that ho feels it would.be inconsistent of him to remain on that committee and not contribute towards the costly statue proposed, adding that ho would like to a London fund started for a memorial that would be responded to.-bythe many engaged in active commercial and industrial life. -

At a recent meeting of tho London County Council thero was a discussion on the.delay by the Board of Education of pavment of annual .grants totalling .£50,000, iu consoquence of the failure, of tho Education Committee _to comply with the article in the' Education Code, stipulating .that tho number of children under the instruction of one teacher must not exceed sixty. Some warmth of feeling was manifested during the debate, a 'Moderate, leader charging one of the Progressive members with ' "hooliganism." Answering a question with,regard to an allegation that' children were re fused treatment at certain hospitals because they had not brought tho council'! school: cards, Mr. Jay said he had received ■ letters from St. George's,- Poplar, and the Ea*t Loudon hospitals-stat-ing-that all children brought!for treatment were dealt with alike.