LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30724, 13 April 1965, Page 16

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

(1) Letters sent to the Editor for printing should preferably be typed, otherwise they must be written in ink on one side of the paper only. A legible signature and full address are required whether these are to be published or not. A P.O. bos number is not a sufficient address. (.2) Writers must say clearly whether or not their letters are being or have been sent to other papers. (3) The Editor cannot return or keep any letter which, for any reason, is unsuitable for printing; nor can he acknowledge unsuitable letters although this will be done where it seems to be needful, or enter into any correspondence. (4) Letters must not be of more than 150 words.

F.W.P.F. —No space for that hardy perennial just now. B. M. Clentworth.—Letters limited to 150 words. See rules above.

Citizen.—Discussion of the personal qualities of candidates v.’ould be distasteful. Not Satisfied.—ln the short run particular districts may get more than their share; in the long term the prizes will tend to be distributed in proportion to the numbers of tickets purchased. The North Island has more than twice the population of the South.

John Dowie. —Mr N. E. Heath, of the Canterbury Astronomical Society, said that an American satellite, Explorer 24, could have been visible about 7.10 p.m. on April 5, but would have been travelling from north to south. However, the following day the object’s path would, about the same time, have been from south to north.

'pensions as we have are largely due to years of hard fighting by ex-service organisations in England to extort from successive governments concessions notoriously overdue; and the less said about Conservative governments in this respect, the better.— Yours, etc., M.T. April 12, 1965.