16 NOVEMBER 1956, Page 7

I AM SURPRISED to hear that the Newspaper Proprietors' Association,

by a majority, has insisted that the usual twenty- eight days' notice of cancellation should apply to the adver- tisement bookings of the oil companies. Some of the news- papers have been expressing themselves strongly on the sub- ject of decisions enforced by trade 'rings' : here, I should have thought, was a ring enforcing an indefensible decision. * * *