14 AUGUST 1959, Page 7

MY REMARKS about the colour of the English fiver have

brought a letter from a Scot who spent a couple of days in England last month; and twice in that short period was offered £4-odd as change of a Scottish £1 note. 'We hard-headed Scots,' she comments, 'welcome yet another means of making a comfortable profit out of our southern cousins.' We southern cousins are not so happy about it.