LONDON CHILDREN
THE EVACUATION PLAN EXTENSION ANNOUNCED (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Sept. 24. Every second child of the London area is at present accommodated in the country districts, and a further evacuation plan for the capital has now been announced, by Mr Malcolm MacDonald: The total number of children of school' age who have already been evacuated is 464,000, and 428,000 still remain. The present facilities include 1 provision for the evacuation of school children and homeless children of any age, with mothers, but these are to be extended to include mothers with children of any age,.Avhether homeless or . not. The scheme is applicable in the first ■ instance to certain of the :, areas. Mothers in.-.- fhes’e being asked to registep ~at l
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24413, 26 September 1940, Page 8
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