School – 1907 appeal for funding

This exchange took place less than a year before the school was closed.

[This transcript is from a poor carbon copy which was not correctly aligned in the typewriter so the right hand side was truncated from the start.]

Office of Woods
1, Whitehall Place
10th October 1907

My Lords,

File 2276 – Deopham

I have received an application from the managers of the Deopham National Schools Co Norfolk for … the cost of carrying out various repairs and structural and sanitary improvements which they have been called upon to carry out at the school premises by the County Services and the Board of Education and which are estimated to …
Prior to the Education Act of 1908 coming into operation an annual contribution of £3. 2. 0. Was made out of the Land …. [Estates?] towards the maintenance of the Schools but has since been discontinued.
The Parish is a poor one and there is no other public elementary school within or or serving the Parish or any part of it.
The rateable value of the Parish is £2,050 and has about 1,855 acres of which the Crown owns 175 acres producing an annual rent of £186.
The Crown rent therefore represents 1/12 of the rateable value of the Parish and in the circumstances I have [to] recommend your Lordships to authorise a contribution of … out of the Land Revenues upon the usual conditions towards the cost of the necessary works of repair and improvements in the Deopham National School Co. Norfolk.

I have the honour to be,
My Lords,
Your obedient Servant.
The Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury

The following is the response to the above request:

Treasury Chambers 
26 October 1907
File 2276 Deopham

My Lord,

I  reply to your report of the 10th instant (E.No. 5953), I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury to convey to you their authority to make a contribution of £5.0.0. out of the Land Revenues upon the usual conditions towards the cost of the necessary works of repair and improvement to the Deopham National Schools, Co. Norfolk.

I am, 
My Lord, 
Your obedient Servant
(signed: E. W. Hamilton)
The Rt. Hon Earl Carrington, K.G.

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