4 JUNE 1948, Page 18

REALLY NECESSARY?

SIR,—Your comments on the shortage of newsprint prompt me to ask how the Government can justify using posters to popularise trains? Like everything else, travelling accommodation is limited, and logically the wartime exhortations not to travel unnecessarily' might be repeated. Instead, we are urged to "See Britain by rail," and, in case that should not sound sufficiently alluring, we are now being treated in our Under- ground stations—and they are "ours" now—to illustrated essays on bird life, apparently in an effort to break down the "travel resistance" of the daily strap-hanger. Could not a better use be found for our money, our paper and our trains?—! am, Sir, your obedient servant,