THE INDUSTRIAL RESERVE,
[To TILE EDITOR OP TUE " SPECTATOR.")
Sus,—We should like to thank you for inserting our second appeal on behalf of Raine's Foundation Schools for money to purchase a drilling machine, and to inform you that it has been possibly more successful than the first. A patriotic firm in the Midlands bare presented a drilling machine, and several other generous people sent subscriptions amounting to 49. As Raine's School has been given a drill, we have ventured to devote this ,e9 to the General Workshop Fund. Thanks to your kind help, we have now been able to provide for this deserving institution a first-class lathe and a drilling machine, and we have collected in all £39 to lit up their workshop with a motor and other necessaries. They have now got all they want, and we believe they will be able to do excellent work in consequence. We should like to quote the following extract from a letter just received from Raine's School :— " Quite a large number (we counted up considerably over a hundred the other day) of our past pupils are engaged in engineering and chemical work, for which our school course specially fits them, and there is not the least doubt that with the additional shop equipment and the further training that will now be possible the senior boys who will be passing out from us during the coining session will be capable of taking up work in munition factories, and will probably be eager to do so. A suitable letter will be sent to each kind donor mentioned in your letter of the 14th."
—Again thanking you for the help you have given us in this
matter, we are, Sir, &O., THE INDUSTRIAL RESERVE 227 Strand, W.C. (R. Bexce-Jorres, Chief of Staff).
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