16 MARCH 1951, Page 5

Writing this, as I am, in the full vigour imparted

by a reindeer -lunch. I can but express satisfaction that the Reindeer Council of Great Britain has secured the permission of the Secretary of State for Scotland (subject to various doubtless reasonable conditions) to establish an experimental herd of reindeer in the Cairngorms or somewhere similar. The Reindeer Council does not exist, as might be supposed, to protect these noble animals., but to breed them with a view to enabling Scotland to offer what the Argentine withholds—though presumably off the ration. Reindeer flesh is, as might be expected, very like venison, but in my judgement superior.