The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-12-16 00:00:00

THE IRON TRADE.

WOLVERIIAMPTON, WEDNESDAY.
The local iron trade is in the same position as
when we last reported. Moat of the mills and
forges are almost totally destitute of orders,
and slackness is the rule. Orders are being

SCHOOL ATTENDANCIL—The parent of any child
between the ages of fiVe and fourteen years who,
without reasonable excuse, does not cause such
child to attend, and continue to attend, a Public
Elementary School, or otherwise to receive efficient
elementary instruction, or whose child is found
habitually wandering or not under proper control,
or in the company of rogues and vagabonds, dis-
orderly persons, or reputed criminals, will incur
the following liabilities :—Upon complaint of the
Local Authority the Justices may either order the
parent to be fined, or make an attendance order,
directing such child to attend a Public Elementary
School. If such attendance order is not complied
with, the Justices may, for a first offence, inflict
upon the parent such fine as in the Act provided,
and for a second or subsequent offence, order such
child to be sent to a Day Industrial School, in
which case the justices shall order the Parent to
pay such sum, not exceeding 2s. per week, towards
the expenses of such School, as they may think fit.
The Managers of a Day Industrial School may,
upon the request of the School Board, and of the
parent of any child, and upon the undertaking of
the parent to pay towards the Industrial Training,
Elementary Education, and meals of such child,
such sum as may from time to time be fixed by the
secretary gf state, receive such child into the
school upon an Attendance Order, and without an
Order of Court.

PAYMENT OF SCHOOL FEE. After the Ist
January, 1877, in any case where the parent of a
child is unable from poverty to pay the School Fee
for such child, the same will not be paid by the
School Board, but it will be the duty of the
Guardians, on the application of the parent, and
if satisfied of the inability of the parent, to pay
the whole or such portion of the School Fee as
they may think necessary, not exceeding the ordin-
ary fee payable at the school at which the child
attends, and not exceeding the sum of 3d. per week.
Any person who shall fraudulefitly obtain, or
enable or procure any other person to obtain, from
any Local Authority payment or remission of pay-
ment, or an order for payment or remission of
payment, of any School Fees will be liable, on
Summary Conviction, to imprisonment for a
period not exceeding 14 days.
Fax EDUCATION. —ln case any child, being
under the age of eleven years, shall, at any time
within five years of the Ist January, 1877, have
passed the examination and made the attendances
at school as under, such child will, subject to the
regulations of the Education Department, become
entitled to have his (or her) School Fees paid by
the Education Department for a subsequent period
of three years. Provided that not more than ten
per cent. of the children attending a Public
Elementary School in any one year shall be
entitled to claim payment of fees as above, and if
more than ten per cen. of such children are other-
wise qualified, then the preference shall be given
to those children who have made the most at-
tendances. In order to enable any child to claim
payment by the Education Department of the
Schools Fees, such child must have passed an ex-
amination in reading, writing, and arithmetic, as
fixed by Standard 4of the Code of 1876, or such
higher Standard as may from time to time be fixed
by the Education Department.