WIMBLEDON AND PUTNEY COMMONS EXTENSION FUND. [To THE EDITOR OF
THE "SPECTATOR...1
Sin,—Wc shall be greatly obliged if you will renew your courtesy by giving some account of the enclosed report. A further sum of £4,000 would enable us to secure all the land to the west of the Beverley Brook, and when the arterial road—or any other road—is made, it will be conterminous with the public open space. Thus a beautiful view will be preserved for all time for travellers by the road, which would
otherwise have been lost. There is, unhappily, no similar stream-side tract remaining in the neighbourhood of London The authorities of the Territorial Army attach very great importance to the free access to both banks of the Beverley Brook for training purposes, and the grant of £250 from the War Office is a token of the interest of the Army Council. The great review on the Common this summer will no doubt serve to make this aspect of our efforts better understood. Financial provision is still required for the acquisition of the section on the east, between Stag Lane and the brook, and it is hoped that the representatives of the wealth of London and some of the municipal authorities that have not yet decided to make a grant will enable us to complete our work.—I am,
Hon. Secretary.
The Heir, Wimbledon.
[The report to be obtained from Mr. Richardson Evans is deeply interesting and should draw money from a stone—much more from a Londoner who loves to enjoy beautiful scenery. London will be utterly disgraced if Mr. Richardson Evans'a noble crusade fails. The Territorial point is a most important one. The War Office ought to make their grant annual, but even then it would be absurdly out of proportion to the gain to the nation's troops if the scheme succeeds.—En. Spectator.]
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