§ Mr. LOVAT-FRASERasked the Minister of Health if he is aware that the public assistance committee of Wakefield desires to dispense with the boarding-out committee, and consequently with the services of the three women whom the boarding-out committee must include; and whether he proposes to assent to that course?
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§ Mr. GREENWOODThe council's administrative scheme under Part I of the Local Government Act, 1929, contains no provision for co-opting to committees persons who are not members of the council and they have asked for my sanction to a proposal that the public assistance committee should act as the boarding-out committee. This committee contains only two women members, and I have informed the council that I attach importance to the requirement that there should be at least three women members of the boarding-out committee and am advised that article 98 (1) of the Public Assistance Order, 1930, confers upon the council power to co-opt one or more women to their boarding-out committee.