26 MARCH 1948, Page 5

I find the policy of the London County Council, and

of some other councils, in the matter of the admission of primary school boys to public schools hard to understand. When the Fleming Report was published, urging that the public schools should open their doors to a limited number of boys from primary schools, the only question was whether the public schools would respond. In fact they responded cordially ; all the difficulty has come from the other side. Boys were not offered for the places the schools made available. I see that the L.C.C. in the last two years has left 270 offered places unfilled, and for the school year beginning next September is accept- ing only 150 places out of 280. There may be reasons for this, but