WRITES TO QUEEN.
WANTS TO SAVE SCHOOL.
BOY'S VAIN APPEAL. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, September 11. Upset because his school was to be pulled down, Stanley Beton, 13-year-old scholar of St. Matthew's School, Bayswater, London, wrote to the Queen. This was his letter:—
Dear Queen Elizabeth, —Would you kindly use your influence for us? Builders have bought our site and we are to be thrown out next year. I have enclosed a newspaper cutting of our prize-giving. If you read it I am sure you will use your influence. .Stanley received a reply from the Queen at Balmoral "regretting that she could not exercise any personal interference." But Stanley is not finished.
"I have now written to Lord Nuffield and I am going to write to the Lord Chamberlain," he said. "Perhaps they can help me." Asked why he was agitated, he replied, "Because the school is a good school. I am leaving at Easter but I have two little brothers here, and I want them to get all I've had —they can't if they go elsewhere."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 236, 5 October 1937, Page 14
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177WRITES TO QUEEN. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 236, 5 October 1937, Page 14
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