But of greatest influence over the lives of schoolboys and schoolgirls is the work of the Education Committee. The work is felt to be so important that the Committee is divided into Sub-Committees. These are called respectively:—
The Higher Education Sub-Committee.
The School Management Sub-Committee.
The School Attendance Sub-Committee.
The School Buildings and Sites Sub-Committee.
The Finance Sub-Committee.
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Each of these Sub-Committees has its particular work, the nature of which can be recognised from its name. The Sub-Committee which exercises, perhaps, the greatest amount of influence is that whose name stands first in the list. It is the Higher Education Sub-Committee, which provides funds for the carrying on of the Bridlington, Pocklington, and Beverley Grammar Schools; which founded the Bridlington and Beverley High Schools for Girls; which provides the villages of the East Riding with lectures on Dairy Farming, Poultry Keeping, Gardening, and Beekeeping; which organises classes for Cookery, Laundry-Work, Dressmaking, Carpentry, Wood-Carving, and Domestic Economy; which grants Scholarships to deserving boys and girls who wish to continue their education at a Secondary or a Technical School.
A very special kind of work carried on by the East Riding County Council is that known as the Registration of Deeds. As a result of this work the Council possesses a record of all sales of land in the East Riding since the year 1706. There are only two counties in Britain that keep such records, Yorkshire being one and Middlesex the other.