15 FEBRUARY 1957, Page 14

SIR,—I notice that you comment thus upon, the Rent Bill

: . . the Government plucked up courage and produced a Bill which went almost all, the way to rationalise the rent situation, by enabling the owners of property to dispose of it in the same way as other types of owner—subject to the laws of the market place, rather than the dictates of the State, or the expediency of politics.'

This is a clear enunciation of the private enterprise supply-and-demand principle. I could not help wondering, however, if all those who would approve of it in relation to British house rents would as wholeheartedly approve of it in connection with the price of American oil ?—Yours faithfully, O. SHEEHY SKIN I INGTON The Senate, Dublin