Consuming Interest
SIR, , —If your correspondent Leslie Adrian is a woman re suggestion that her sex is given to nervous col- °apse when furnishing a home may not be so 'spuri- as. a piece of transatlantic psycho-sociological fact- ni ,„migering after all. This would go some way to Plain why this article, clearly already in print when ' Consumer Council's report on The Furniture _I Trade and the Consumer was published, should pre- sume to state—and, in fact, wholly miscalculate and iis-state—the reception given to the report by the trade The leadership of the furniture trade may be rod, bad—as Leslie Adrian thinks—or indifferent, ,! one cannot rate very h:ghly the quality or "Pinions of a correspondent who so muddles the facts.
ofWilat the article does is to furnish evidence , Your correspondent's 'almost hysterical hostility' !' the furniture trade. Why else should there he 't° mention of the important section of the report pealing with the responsibility of the consumer? If „,"e dismisses as unworthy the suggestion that this One because it came near the end of the document, due ls left with the implication that the omission was ,sue to the fact that it did not lit in with the personal prejudices of the writer. What a pity such a good c211, cc of objective, constructive reporting—which s,'Ittcl have helped to further the aims of the Con- sumer Council—was thrown away! 8rifish Furniture Manufacturers'
Federated Associations 17 Bertiers Street, WI
D. D. MITCHELL
Director
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