[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I would like to
support the suggestion of Mr. H. Brewer in your issue of May 2nd, that each local council should erect finger boards indicating each recognized public right of way in its area. There is now, I believe, a very health- giving movement on foot called " hiking," (a horrible word) and to those of us who still thoroughly enjoy a country walk it is distressing to find so few to be had, owing to the old footpaths being practically obliterated by • under and over- growth and impossible to penetrate. There are two in this neighbourhood shown on the half-inch scale map as cart tracks, but no cart I feel sure has been along them for countless years ! It would be a great boon to many if the councils responsible would open them up and by so doing give some work to the unemployed and afterwards pleasure to many lovers of the countryside,—I am, Sir, &c.,
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