Some of the children, both evacuaees and local children, were not as well behaved as they should have been:
WM - evacuee aged 6 3/4, being left alone in the room while Mr T interviewed a parent in the cloakroom, went to the bag containing the "dinner" money, took 11/8 1/2d [nearly £1] - put it in his pocket, then came to Mr T & asked to go to the lavatory. Permission was innocently given and he dissapeared & could not be found. Mr T sent a note to the Mother, who later found the child in the town. He had bought & consumed cakes, ice creams, fish cakes & lemonade & had done away with the money left over. The mother is to pay the money back in two installments. This child plays truant regularly when U.S. soldiers are in the town.
WM sounds like something of a scamp!
