Appeal on behalf of the Wallingford Farm Training College of the National Union for Christian Social Service by SIR JOHN MARTIN HARVEY THIS colony, which is controlled by the National
Union for Christian Social Service, was established seventeen years ago, at Benson, near Oxford, to train lads and men who had not made a start in life, or who had started and failed. This rather difficult material has been so successfully handled that seventy per cent. of all those received are sent out and become self-supporting in the Dominions or on English farms. The pressure of applications has become so great that the Committee in charge of the colony have purchased and equipped an adjoining farm, erected additional homes for the colonists and staff, and improved the farm buildings, thereby providing accommodation for 300 colonists drawn from all parts of England and Wales. The Committee urgently appeal for a sum of not less than £5,000 to complete the cost of this extension, and in particular to provide a Sanatorium on tlio colony, which is badly needed.
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