30 JUNE 1973, page 5

Death On The Road.

Sir: With reference to Professor Vaizey's article (June 16) on the Courts' attitude to dangerous driving, on the, BBC World Service it was stated that as soon as a person passes......

Prescriptive Medicine

Sir: Dr Linklater complains that he might be expected to prescribe contraceptive sheaths (Letters, June 16), a Job which he feels requires no medical expertise. Yet he could......

Tea C Hi Ng Standards S Ir: 1 Suggest To Dr Boyson (june 16)

that at least three main items are sig. Mficant to a teacher's competence 7 Titial ability, training, and interest in the job. I have no more use than he L° 1 ' many modern......

Public Lending Right

Sir: The criticism by Bookbuyer (June 16) of Maurice Macmillan and William Ian Straubenzee . for their failure to sign:the Early Day Motion on PLR is unfair. By long established......

National Trust

Sir: A propos the recent correspondence about the National Trust: its commercial attitude is evident in Northumberland as well as in Dorset. In a Teahouse's grocer a pound jar......

Papa-india

Sir: Many of your readers will have a personal interest in the safety of air craft. The official report on the Papa India trident crash seems to have swallowed the BEA scenario......

Poetry For The People

Sir: I am writing to thank you tor publishing (April 7) Nigel Friths "Poetry: For the People." His argument that the narrative function of poetry is an essential one ought more......