THE CHILD EMIGRATION SOCIETY.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") gilts—AA Chairmen of the London and Oxford Committees of the Child Emigration Society, we crave the hospitality of your columns In order to draw attention to our scheme for the enlargement of the Society's werk at its Farm School at Pin- jarra, Western Australia. The Society in the past has taken orphan and destitute British-born children of eight to ten years of age, and has given them a sound practical training in farming in Western Australia. The boye hitherto sent out have turned out so well that it is now proposed to extend operations so as to take 100 boys and 100 girls, children of those who. have suffered through the war, in place of the original thirty-five boys.
We have had generous help from the Oversee, Settlement Committee, the National Relief Fund, the British Red Cross Society, and the Rhodes Trustees, but we are still in want of an annual sum of about £2,400 for the next five years, in order to make the finances secure. It is hoped to interest well-to-do people in the work by means of a system of "adoption" on lines similar to those successfully followed in the case of prisoners of war. The "adopter" would be kept in touch with the child selected by him or her, and the annual cost would be not more than £40. The scheme seems a promising one, and experienoe has shown that the Farm Sohool is working on sound Linea; its methods, too, might suitably be extended to other portion, of the Dominion.. The founder, Mr. Kingsley Fairbridge, is now in England, and would be pleased to give information and receive the names of " adopters " at Savoy House, Strand, W.C. 2, the office of the Agent-General for Western Australia.—We are, Sir, &ce
ARTHUR. SAWLEY, Chairman, London Committee. J. M. Daum,
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