EVACUATION AND BILLETING OF CHILDREN
[To the Editor of .THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—There was recently. a letter in The Daily, Telegraph from a Mr. Douglas Goldring which contained a -valuable sug- gestion to help solve the complicated problem of billeting evacuated children—namely, the utilisation of empty country houses.'
Many details as 'regards compensation to owners, insurance, &c., would of course have- to be gone into by experts, but meanwhile surely it would be possible for a small team of carefully chosen volunteer owner-car drivers, working under the direction of the new. Minister of Civilian Defence, to make preliminary inspections of possible houses and send in detailed reports as to their situation, general condition, and accom- modation.
As an owner-driver with a certain amount of spare time I would gladly either organise, or co-operate in, a scheme of this kind, and I am sure.-that---there-,.are many other people who would do the same.—Yours . truly, - ESME COOKE. 37 Brunswick Gardens, W. 8. -
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