HC Deb 01 July 1903 vol 124 cc1021-2
MR. HERBERT SAMUEL

To ask the Secretary of State for War what quantity of unconsumed tobacco belonging to the War Office has been, or is about to be, returned from South Africa to England and sold by tender; at what prices per pound was this tobacco purchased, and what prices have been realised by the lots already sold; whether traders wishing to tender have been allowed to make a full examination of the condition of this tobacco; and whether Army canteens in South Africa were allowed to buy quantities of tobacco

attendance for the school year as a whole, not on the separate average attendances for the periods before and after the appointed day.