THE INDUSTRIAL RESERVE AND MUNITIONS.
[To TEE EDITOR OF TEM " Sroorrroa."] Sxn,—Raine's Foundation School, Arbour Square, Stepney, is doing its bit for the country by devoting its engineering shop, which contains fifteen benches, to the manufacture of small standardized parts for a large factory in the North of London. To do this effectively it needs a few more machines, the cost of which may be as much as £70, not more. When they obtain the extra tools they require they will not only be in a position to do more ambitious work than they are attempting at present, but they will at the same time be able to train their boys to do really skilled work, so that as they pass out of the school they can be drafted into munitions factories, where they are so much required. The success of our appeal in your columns of June 12th, made in an article you so kindly published on the Industrial Reserve, was so instantaneous that we are emboldened again to seek your assistance for this highly important cause. The £150 for which we asked on that occasion on behalf of King's College Technical School for a similar purpose was sent us by a patriotic Welshwoman by the morning of the 14th, so that we were able to authorize King's College to purchase the needed lathes, the result being that they are now rapidly being fitted to be of service to the country. In the case of both these institutions the benefit is not only temporarily of the most enormous value, but will permanently add to their capacity for training valuable citizens for our country. We may mention that should the response to this appeal exceed the sum required, there are other institutions such as those we have mentioned above, who are already holding munition classes, but who require small
sums of money to enable them to produce the best results.— We are, Sir, &c., THE INDUSTRIAL RESERVE •
(R. BENCH-JONES, Chief of Staff).
Industrial Reserve Offices, 227 Strandk W.C.
[The Industrial Reserve inform ns that they will guarantee that the money asked for will not be thrown away, but will be spent upon machines or tools that can achieve practical results. We are delighted to hear that the readers of the Spectator acted so promptly and so generously.—En. Spectator.]
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