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wondered whether the Chairman could suggest any method 

 by which they could get a reasonable grant, and considering 

 the work they had done she thought they really deserved 

 one. 



The CHAIRMAN said he was afraid he would only get 

 himself into trouble if he spoke. (Laughter.) He could 

 only say that the admirable speech of Mrs. Kitson Clark 

 ought to have been made at the morning session, when the 

 President of the Board of Education was present, and they 

 could make him feel as uncomfortable as they liked. 

 (Laughter.) He was only a servant and could not announce 

 the policy of the Board of Education, but he thought he 

 would be quite in order in repeating the remark that Mr. 

 Pease himself made, which was that it was his intention 

 in the new Bill he had under consideration, and which was 

 to be placed before Parliament at an early date, to deal 

 with nursery schools and schools for mothers. He thought 

 also he would not be divulging any confidence if he said 

 that he knew Mr. Pease had had under consideration in the 

 last few months, 1 with great detail, this very question which 

 Mrs. Kitson Clark had so ably and vigorously presented. 

 They quite recognized that what were called the technical 

 regulations, under which grants were now paid to these 

 schools for mothers and there were about a dozen schools 

 receiving a Government grant in that way were entirely 

 unsuitable and inadequate for the purpose. They were not 

 instituted for the education of mothers, but for the feed- 

 ing of children, and it was recognized by the Board of 

 Education that there must be a substantial modification of 

 these regulations in order to bring these schools for 

 mothers into the educational system of the country. He 

 knew that it was the fixed intention of the President of the 

 Board of Education to consider in his forthcoming measure 

 the very problem which Mrs. Kitson Clark had delineated. 

 He was not at all sure if it would not be a good thing for 

 any lady or gentleman present that afternoon who was 

 qualified to speak, and w'ho had the experience which Mrs. 

 Kitson Clark had, to state to the Conference the basis on 

 which they thought such Government grant should be put. 

 If they did so they might rest assured that their request 

 would receive careful attention. He did not know that 

 he could say anything further, and, perhaps, what he had 

 said would be looked on by some as possessing the merit 

 of successful ambiguity. (Laughter.) 





