27 APRIL 1962, Page 14

DRAUGHT BEER SIR,—Mr. Percey of the Licensed Victuallers' De- fence

League is rather too ingenuous. The main gravamen of my complaint is that .a person only has to visit a few dozen pubs in the whole country and he knows what the brews are like in the vast majority of houses. I haven't the figures by me, but Mr. Percey will know better than 1 do how many houses are tied to the United Brewery-Charrington- Hewitt octopus, how many to Flower-Green's, how many to Hammonds. We want a special (Intoxicants) Consumers' Association, with the motto, 'Set the Publics Free.'

Willoughby Rectory, Alford, Lines

AUSTIN LEE