SIR,—Your correspondent " A Mere Consumer," p. 173, The Spectator,
August 25ttt, asks for readers' reasons why electricity is cheaper else- where than here, and gives excellent reasons why it need not be so. Can you, Sir, or your readers, suggest a more practical and effective way to correct this situation than for each one interested to write direct to his own Member of Parliament requesting early, prompt, effective enforce- ment of Section 6 (f) Electric Lighting Act, 1882 (quoted p. 129, The Spectator, August r rth, 1944)? The Electricity Commission knows of no special means of enforcing this section. If specific, compulsory obligation were imposed by Parliament on the Electricity Commission to enforce that section, and if in every case where an authorised supplier " has failed to " connect a village, the provision for such supply in Section 23, Act 1909, were encouraged [Electricity Commission dis- courages the implementing of this proviso] the " smart snatching " of profits, detailed on p. 173 and criticised in the Report of Conservative Central Committee of Parliament on post-war problems entitled " Work the Future of British Industry," reviewed in The Times, p. 5, January 3rd,
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