REGARDING Mr M Lewis' letter Referendum needed on public's hunt views, Points of view, May 18, let us imagine that his Rackenford home has an elephant problem

The elephant population has risen out of all proportion and rogue elephants are disrupting village life. So how do you deal with the problem?

You could, of course, legalise ivory poaching or you could hire a marksman with a high-powered rifle who would gain no pleasure in dispatching the animals with the utmost care and the minimum of suffering.

I'm wondering if Mr Lewis is the same person who told Points of view readers shortly after the hunting ban how sad he was that future generations would not enjoy the years of pleasure he had had from hunting.

A humane cull would not suit him at all.

G R Holwill

Stoke Hill Crescent, Exeter

(by fax)