16 OCTOBER 1959, Page 20

A MILKER IN THE MAIL

SIR,—For the record! 1 remember Patrick Campbell posting the cow, about which he wrote so amusingly last week under the title 'A Milker in the Mail. because I was then Chief Press Officer at the GPO. But the' business was not started by Mr. Ernest Marples, and Mr. Ernest Marples was never Assistant Postmaster-General, as Patrick Campbell states. The late Sir David Gammans was the Assistant Post- master-General who reminded the world that a coW could be sent through the post. The Postmaster General was Earl De La Warr. Mr. Ernest Marples became Postmaster-General two years later.—Yours faithfully,

SIDNEY R. CAMPO