A DESERVING CASE [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—I wonder if any of the readers of your paper can help in a most deserving case in which I am interested locally : a boy, one of a working class family of six children, won a Scholarship to the Secondary School—the family income is about sos. per week. He showed considerable musical ability, and at the end of his time at the Grammar School won a Musical Scholar- ship and was appointed Assistant Organist at one of our Cathedrals—I think the value was Ls% but the whole of this amount has to be paid over in fees to the organist to whom he is a pupil.
For a period of three years money has to be found for his lodgings, clothes and pocket money—the clothing question has been dealt with, but we have not been successful in finding any fund which can make grants to cover the other items. The boy will take his A.R.C.O. examination next July, and will take his Mus. Bac. examination at the end of the third year. Sufficient funds are in hand for the next two months but beyond that we have not any promises .—Yours faithfully,
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