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The Information Working Party Apart from stressing the importance of information services in disr seminating knowledge of the activities of FAO and fully endorsing the future policy of the Division, this working party had no new recommendations. The Nutrition Working Party In approving the programme for 1950, the working party recommended that emphasis should be on providing direct technical assistance to Governments attempting to carry out practical programmes of work in the field of school feeding and nutrition education. The panel considered that the most effective way to assist member Governments was by helping them to establish services concerned with the planning of food production, distribution and consumption policies, and that fellowships should be available to senior workers. Rural Welfare Working Party The party approved a proposal to inquire into rural problems and programmes among mountain peoples in Europe and the Near East. It felt, too, that there was a great need for improving the welfare of fishing communities in many parts of the world, and therefore proposed that the Director-General include in the programme for 1951 a project similar to that referred to above for mountain areas. CONSTITUTIONAL, ADMINISTRATIVE, AND FINANCIAL QUESTIONS Site of Permanent Headquarters There was unanimous agreement that the Organization could no longer continue on the basis of a temporary location, and all delegates pressed for a decision. It was a clear contest between a site in Europe and a site in the United States of America, and the Conference was fairly evenly divided. In the United States generous offers from the United States Government and the University of Maryland were forthcoming for the establishment of FAO headquarters in or around Washington. A site was offered by the United Nations in New York. In Europe sites were offered in Geneva, Copenhagen, and Eome. After considerable discussion on this matter, as well as procedural questions involved, the Conference by a vote of 30 to 28 selected Rome as the permanent site.