[287]. Report on the Working of the Education (Provision of Meals) Act, up to March 31, 1909, p. 48.
[288]. Hansard, July 12, 1910, 5th Series, Vol. 19, pp. 189-190. In 1910, out of the twenty-five or so Local Authorities who continued the meals during the holidays, about one-fifth paid for them out of the rates. (Report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education for 1910, p. 255.)
[289]. Ibid., p. 254.
[290]. Ibid., pp. 254-5; Report of West Ham Education Committee for the year ended March 31, 1910, pp. 45-6.
[291]. The first report which was issued on the Working of the Provision of Meals Act gave the number of authorities who continued the meals during the school holidays—at that date 3 out of the 7 counties, and 32 out of the 105 county boroughs, boroughs and urban districts, who were making some provision under the Act (Report on the Working of the Education (Provision of Meals) Act, 1906, up to March 31, 1909, pp. 34-38). No figures are now available.
[292]. Report of Bradford Education Committee for the year ended March 31, 1908.
[293]. See letter from Bradford Ratepayers Association, in Bradford City Council Proceedings, August 10, 1909.
[294]. In London, during the Christmas holidays, 1911-12, meals were provided out of a sum placed at the disposal of the Chairman of the Council by the General Purposes Committee, from the balance of the account in connection with the erection and management of the Coronation Procession stands. (Minutes of the London County Council, February 13, 1912, p. 2791.)
[295]. Report of the West Ham Education Committee for the year ended March 31, 1910, p. 46; Ibid. for the year ended March 31, 1911, p. 39.
[296]. Ibid. for the year ended March 31, 1912, pp. 50-1.