of rationed of controlled feeding stock. In pursuance of this policy, special allowances of rationed food and priority articles have been granted to school, as well as industrial and other, canteens. An extension of the School Meals Service, in the face of further supply difficulties is therefore the logical developmen of present policy. the encouragement Apart from the nutritional considerations to which we have referred, there is another factor which makes it necessary to extend the provision of school meals as widely as circumstan###es permit.