19 MARCH 1954, Page 14

old people who used to be called the middle classes--whose

means, never large, have been so cruelly reduced by the inflated cost of living that they may now rightly be called the new poor.

be occupied by old people able and willing to provide furniture for their own apartments, and whose modest means would suffice to meet the cost of running and maintenance, including that of the housekeeper and staff— but whose means would be utterly inadequate to rent an ordinary service flat, or to pay for hotel accommodation, which to many offer the only alternatives.—Yours faithfully,

W. 0. SIMMS

Seawood, Talton Crescent, Prestatyn, North Wales