15 APRIL 1949, Page 20

OVERHEAD LINES

SIR,—I notice in your comment on the letter " Overhead Lines " you quote the reply given in Parliament by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Town and Country Planning, but you do not mention that this refers solely to 132,000 kv. overhead lines which no one expects to be buried. Quite exceptional costs apply in the case of such high voltage lines. Those like your correspondent who are pleading for underground cables for much lower voltages are much offended that such misleading figures should have been given in Parliament, and regret that you should have repeated them in your comment on the letter.—Yours