BRITAIN'S UNDERFED.
SUBJECT OF LEGISLATIVE ATTENTION. Received 4, 4.47 p.m. London, March 8. Mr W. AVillson's Bill to provide in;'iils for underfed .school cbildreD, and if the local education authority thinks lit, for any other school children, and recover I lie cost from parents able to pay was read a second lime iu tlic Hoilseof CoramonsJ without division. The Hon. Augustine Birrell, Presi. dent of the Board of Education, and the Hon. John Burns, President of the '-oral Government Board, supported the Bill, promising after the Select Committee stage, the Government will find time for the remaining stages, with a view to passing the Bill into law (luring 190(1. Mr Harold Cox's amendment "tliat the fee.ling of children would diminish parental responsibility," was unseeouded. He argUed that it would, noxt be necessary to supply boots aud clothes and children's barracks.
"The Times," iu a commentary, r says there is a certain rough justice iu the new domaud, though it will probably end in supplying boots and clothes.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8057, 5 March 1906, Page 2
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167BRITAIN'S UNDERFED. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8057, 5 March 1906, Page 2
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