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he School Attendance Bill Sir Charles Trevelyan has presided over

a conference or expediting the School Attendance Bill. He offered, t is said, to contribute three-quarters of the money hich would have to be spent by the managers of non- • rovided schools on new buildings. The Nonconformist epresentatives, according to the Parliamentary Corres- ondent of the Times, pressed for adequate safeguards n regard to this large expenditure of public money or sectarian purposes. It was agreed that a Committee if Five should be appointed to consider the safeguards.