17 DECEMBER 1921, Page 14

BLINDED SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' HOSTEL.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—At this moment of my own and my mother's deep personal loss, I feel sure that I am voicing what would have been my father's wishes in asking that the public, who have so fully and generously supported his unceasing work for St. Dunstan's and the National Institute for the Blind, should continue to help that work in every possible way. My father's deepest concern was that the public should regard his work for the blind, not merely as a personal effort of his own, but as a national trusteeship placed in his hands by the people of the Empire. I ask, therefore, in his name that all present and projected activities to raise the -much-needed funds for

the work to which my father devoted his life should continue without ceasing for a moment. I am sure that he would have