FIRST-AID TO WAR MEMORIAL COMMITTEES.
ITO THE EDITOR OF THE " Sezoreroa."l
Sta,—Referring to your article on " First-Aid to War Memorial Committees," may I be permitted to urge the idea of the Nursery School as the most appropriate and valuable Of all the suggestions made? Nothing in the new Education Bill has been more vital than the setting up of the Nursery School, and its value to the coming generation has been demonstrated by many workers. Surely there can be no more tender memorial to those who have given their lives for us than endeavouring to see that the new generation of even the poorest children may have a better chance of living. To many of the little -folk who go to these schools real nursing and comfort have come for the first time, and they start life physically, mentally, and spirit- ually on a fairer platform. Such schools should be at once set up in every Village and rural town as well as in great oities, and the Government will give grants in aid of building and furnishing, and the Local Authorities will provide for the teaching. Such a memorial, with the names of the heroes who have fallen in each locality engraved upon the tablet, would surely be more in keeping with true sentiment than any vain-
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