10 APRIL 1964, Page 17

THE ROAD TO CLACTON PIER is not only at Southend

that the unauthorised removal of lifebuoys creates a problem. At Cam- bridge it has been solved economically by the River Conservators who have themselves removed the life- buoys. In the course of a year since this decision was taken there have been three rescues from drowning and one fatality in 200 yards of the river.

EDWARD A. ARMSTRONG

St. Mark's Vicarage, Cambridge