Promotions in the Board of Education are made in accordance with the principles laid down in paragraphs 6 to 8 of the Report of the Committee on Promotion dated 10th August, 1921. The woman clerical officer who was recently promoted to be higher clerical officer had over 25 years previous service in the Board, 14 years of which was in the grade of clerical officer. The claims of senior clerical officers for promotion will continue to be considered on their merits, as they have been in the past. Where "all other things are equal" seniority is the yardstick, but quite often "all other things are not equal" and in the Civil Service especially it is most important to detect and recognise merit, and I have no doubts about the merit of this particular officer.