13 FEBRUARY 1953, Page 20

Mr. R. S. Thacker SIR,—With respect to the comment: "

What is virtually a cause célèbre lays a heavy responsibility on the District Magistrate concerned, who by the nature of things has little experience in affairs of such.magni- tude," which appears in your issue of January 30th under Evolving Africa. I would point out that the Resident Magistrate at Kapenguria is Mr. R. S. Thacker, who was until recently a puisne judge of the Kenya Supreme Court, and who acted several times as Chief Justice of Kenya and is a judge of very wide and long experience.—Yours faithfully, GRANVILLE ROBERTS, Public Relations Officer to the Government of Kenya. [But has there been any other " affair of such magnitude " in Kenya ? Editor, Spectator.]