6 OCTOBER 1939, Page 20

COMPULSORY INSURANCE shall be glad to know whether you and

your readers think it fair for tradesmen to pass on the cost of compulsory war risk insurance to their customers. Why should not any professional man increase his fees in respect of the same risk? In his case the insurance is not compulsory ; but, like many other people, I have had to incur the considerable expense of having my ledgers photographed.—Yours, &c., E. S. P. HAYNES.

9 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, W.C. 2.