15 APRIL 1916, Page 15

WAR SAVING.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.1

SIR,—Wishin& to encourage a young person to save, I tried to pay 1.5s. 6d. and to obtain a War Savings book for her, but the Post Office refused, as her signature was needed first. Not to be daunted, I obtained a savings-card, bought thirty-one sixpenny stamps, and stuck them on—a sheer waste of printed paper—and got the girl to promise to exchange the card for the book. I have asked at three post offices for copies of the "15s. 6d. = £1" circular, but they were all "out of them." Ought not this circular and a specimen card to be displayed at every post office ? As things are, the class concerned simply do not know of the facilities offered, and it is not easy to be A WORKER TOR TERIrr.