13 OCTOBER 1928, Page 18

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The following facts may

be of use to a public that must be bewildered by recent happenings. The Council of the R.S.P.C.A. is an executive body. It consists of thirty-six members. Sixteen of these members represent groups of branches of the Society, and are elected by the branches themselves. Six members of Council out of the thirty-six have recently issued a communication to the members of the Society.

Two out of these six members are representative of a branch group. This leaves thirty members of the Council, fourteen of whom are representative of the branches, by whom they are elected, who have not signed the appeal to the members to vote against the proposed alteration to the rules of the Society.—I am, Sir, &e., East field, Whitchurch, Oxon. J. UNIACKE.