14 MARCH 1952, Page 5

" It costs about £5 to shoot one pheasant "

said Mr. J. Scott Henderson, Q.C., on Monday in the course of an enquiry into the finance of an estate in Hampshire consisting of farm-lands and coverts; Mr. Henderson, it is noted, was appearing for the estate-owner. If wealthy men like to spend their money that way it is, no doubt, primarily their own affair. But if Mr. Butler decided to impose a tax of £1 per pheasant there would seem to be no gross injustice. Most people who can afford £5 a bird can afford £6. JANUS