4 DECEMBER 1964, Page 13

VIOLENCE IN THE LORDS

SIR,--In your issue of November 27, Quoodle quotes Lord Egremont as having said: 'If the electricity board's wayleavc officer comes to see me I shall throw him down the stairs.' What he actually said (House of Lords Official Report, November 17, col. 549) was slightly but significantly different: 'If the Board's wayleave officer asks to see me at Petworth I shall have him thrown down the stairs.'