30 OCTOBER 1942, Page 14

DOG-LICENCES

SIR,—People, pigs and poultry are all rationed, cows are eating straw and horses are not to eat oats, even the cat's saucer is threatened. But dogs, lucky dogs, have slipped through the ration net. Their biscuits are sacrosanct This is not grudged them, but their owners, to whose well-being they add so largely, might subscribe more liberally for the privilege. The old rate of licence may suffice for one dog, but No. 2 might put up Et, the rate rising more steeply as the numbers increase: No. 3 should cost £2, No. 4 L4, No. 5 £8, and so on. Thus our friends would benefit revenue or diminish the drain on flour.—Yours, &c.,