10 JULY 1941, Page 13

A QUESTION OF COUPONS

SIR,—In the beginning of March I ordered two summer shirts before there was any suggestion of coupons for clothes. The delivery of material was held up at the factory and the shirts were never ready for me until the other day. The shirtmakers now claim coupons in respect of these two shirts, which seems to me utterly unreasonable, and there are cases of much more hardship than mine. Surely at a time like this bureaucrats should moderate their zeal for tyranny.— Yours, &c., E. S. P. HAYNES. 9 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, W.C. 2.