15 AUGUST 1931, Page 18

THE R.S.P.C.A. AND HUNTING [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

SIR,—Your correspondent Mrs. Binstead refers to a pamphlet by the late Mr. Walker King in which he advises that the Exmoor deer should be kept down by shooting with a rifle as in the Scotch deer forests. I hope that any who read this pamphlet will in fairness also read the Open Letter by Sir Francis Acland to Mr. Lovat Fraser, in which he shows the essential differences between Exmoor and a Scotch deer forest. Sir Francis makes clear the impossibility of shooting deer with a rifle in this country, and points out the needless cruelty which would be inflicted if such methods were attempted.—