THE CHILDREN'S COUNTRY HOLIDAYS FUND.
LT0 THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...I Sm,—I beg to enclose a copy of our Annual Report. As you will see from it, we sent a larger number of children away than in any previous year, but unfortunately our income was not quite equal to our expenditure. This year our workers are anxious to send more than ever, and the recent hot days make the need for a change all the more imperative. One cannot help feeling that it is only necessary for the public to know this for a ready support to be forthcoming. My Committee would therefore be deeply grateful to you if you could draw attention to our Report in your columns. Our annual meeting has been postponed till the second week in July on account of the death of his late Majesty King 18 Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C. Secretary.
The Annual Report of this Fund is now in the hands of its subscribers. It tells of 43,582 children sent out of the London streets for two weeks' joy in the country, but after a time one realises there is more to be read. There is a principle and an ideal lying beyond all this—the hope of enlarging the outlook, of buildi g the whole character of the child—and surely the mass of voluntary and detailed labour involved in London and in the country (for one only of the sixty-three Committees at work sent 1,470 children away last year) is given because the workers are certain of the need of the children, and are conscious of the permanent result of their work. Having told the public the story of their work, the Council of the Fund quite confidently appeal for the necessarily increased income which must be forthcoming if the note of progress running through the Report is to be main- tained in 1910. The expenditure last year was £31,952, and the parents' payments amounted to £9,957, which means that every 10s. given by the public sends one child away.
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