HC Deb 14 March 1940 vol 358 c1378W
Mr. Ede

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education the names of the members of the committee managing the nursery centre at Dorking, Surrey, with the names of the authorities or organisations appointing them?

Mr. Lindsay

I understand that the committee directly responsible for the management of the nursery centre at Dorking consists of Councillor Miss F. M. Douglas, J.P., who is a member of the Urban District Council, Chairman of the Dorking School Attendance Committee, a governor of the local county school and a member of the local Infant Welfare Committee; Mrs. A. E. Sykes, who is a member of Women's Voluntary Services, a governor of the county school and Correspondent for the Powell-Corderoy School; Mrs. M. B. Lindsay, who is centre leader of the local branch of Women's Voluntary Services; Miss G. E. Short of the Stanway School, Dorking; with Mr. Leslie J. V. Piper, Clerk to the Urban District Council, as Secretary. This committee is under the general direction and control of the Evacuation Committee of the Dorking Urban District Council. I am also informed that the Surrey County Council has been invited to nominate a representative of their Education and Welfare Committees to serve on the committee.