Mr. Cary Gilson presented the report of the Higher Education Sub-committee, which stated that Mrs. Hume C. Pinsent had given £50 to the fund for assisting pupil teachers to proceed to training corteges by means of loans. The report was adopted, as well that of the Technical Education and Evening Schools Sub-committee, moved by Professor Heath. The latter stated that classes were being started for instructing workingmen in arithmetic and were proving very useful. The report of the Special Schools Sub-committee was also adopted, on the motion of Mrs. Pinsent. It recommended that twenty boarding school cases of mentally defective children should be sent to the boarding school at Sandwell Hall. The charge for maintenance would be £24 per head per annum. Mrs. Pinsent spoke strongly in favour of the proposal, remarking that the offer was one not to be declined. It involved £480 in three years, or a small fraction of a farthing on the rates.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949