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The Week's Good Cause: Appeal on behalf of the Warehousemen Clerks and Drapers' Schools at Purley and Addington

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by the Hon. Geoffrey Hope-Morley, Chairman of the Board of Management of the Schools.

At Purley and Addington, in Surrey, are two of the finest schools in the country, well known, of course, to most people in the textile trade, and to them come fatherless boys and girls from every section of the trade throughout Great Britain and Northern Ireland

From the great retail stores and the big wholesale warehouses in the cities, and from the tiny drapers' shops in the remotest villages the children come, when the father has died before he had time to provide adequately for their future. For seventy-five years the Schools have been clothing and maintaining these
Youngsters, and not only giving them the same sound education which is given by our great Public Schools, but launching them out on business careers, and watching over their interests for the first few years of their business lives.

Contributions should be addressed to [address removed]

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