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missioners have ample power to apply apprenticeship funds
to educational purposes, and are yearly paying more attention
to education of a technical character.
The subject again came before the Vestry early in 1888, upon
a communication from the Chelsea Vestry, suggesting that
the funds available under the City Parochial Charities Act,.
1883, might most fitly be applied to the promotion of Technical
Instruction. The Vestry concurred in this view, and suggested
that the object sought might best be attained by
establishing a system of technical instruction in night schools
or classes, as artisans actually engaged in earning their
living might then avail themselves of the means of increasing
their technical knowledge of their art or trade, which they
could not well do if the classes were held during the day,
while apprentices and students would not be excluded.
SCHOOL BOARD ELECTORAL DISTRICTS.
In the month of November, the Vestry received a letter
from the Vestry of St. Pancras, again inviting co-operation
in an endeavour to substitute the Parliamentary Electoral
Districts for the existing areas for the election of members
of the School Board. The Vestry do not view the existing
areas with any great degree of favour, but strongly object to
the Parliamentary Districts being adopted in lieu thereof,
partly because the latter have been formed entirely on the
basis of population, without regard to rateable value, but
principally because the suggested alteration might lead to
School Board Elections being conducted on the lines of party
politics. The Vestry would prefer the Rating District, as
defined by the Elementary Education Act, that is, the
Parish, or the District of a District Board of Works, as the
case may be, to be adopted as the electoral area, believing