[108]. Report of Select Committee on Education (Provision of Meals) Bills (England and Scotland), 1906, Qs. 792, 924, 925. By a considerable majority the Conference defeated an amendment that the Board of Guardians should be substituted for the Local Education Authority as the authority for making the provision, but owing to a technical difficulty the main resolution was not put. See also the resolution passed at a conference of the School Attendance Officers' Association, quoted by Mr. Slack in the House of Commons (Hansard, April 18, 1905, 4th Series, Vol. 145, p. 533).
[109]. Hansard, July 9, 1903, Vol. 125, p. 194. See also ibid., February 14, 1905, Vol. 141, p. 143.
[110]. Ibid., April 20, 1904, Vol. 133, pp. 782-3.
[111]. Ibid., p. 784.
[112]. Ibid., p. 788; Sir John Gorst, ibid., July 9, 1903, Vol. 125, p. 196.
[113]. Hansard, March 13, 1905, Vol. 142, p. 1185.
[114]. Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Medical Inspection and Feeding, 1905, Vol. I., p. vii.
[115]. Ibid., pp. 54, 55, pars. 182, 186, 189. The total number of these agencies was 140. Of these 71 were permanent (i.e., had been in existence over a year), 24 were new, and 45 were intermittent in their operations.
[116]. Ibid., pp. 78-80, pars. 290-293.
[117]. Ibid., p. 79, par. 291.