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Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1540, 20 January 1919, Page 4

OUR MILK SUPPLY. To the Editor of THE SUN. , Sir, —A few years ago milkmen ns to deliver milk each night and ran ling; if not all the year round, at leg in the summer months. Now there only the morning delivery. What i comes of the night’s milk? A you boy who assists in the delivery of a] informs me that the night’s milk mixed in with the next morning’s mi Is it any wonder, then that in the 1 weather the milk is often sour 24 hoi after it is delivered? Milkmen should be compelled to i liver fresh milk night and morning, I am, etc., SKIM.:; THE CANTERBURY TEAM. To the Editor of THE SUN. Sir, —I beg space for a few remai in reply to your corresponde; “Cricket.” I am not out to voice the claims | any particular player or to present t selector with any bouquets. “Cricket is apparently more endowed with { thusiasm than cricket knowledge. ; doubt if you will find anyone in Chrij church who is capable of selecting i team in the “order of merit.” To pw Blank, an unknown quantity, in iati ! provincial matches, sixth, and -Tone 'who has proved himself a fine bat ai field, tenth in the “order of merit proves how much “Cricket” knoi about the game. I would advi “Cricket” to get his “head read.”, I am, etc., CRICKETER, RETURNED SOLDIERS. | ;To the Editor of THE SUN. Sir, —I fully endorse your eorrespo; ident’s remarks in reference to the ml I who were not so fortunate to go ovi j seas to fight. Are we, who did not g | way, through no fault of our own, cj |titled to no consideration? Taken | own case: I enlisted in 1915, altiioug la Second Division man, “B” claj but was turned down; again in 191 j with the same result, and again in 191 I when 1 got in the home-service brane After being in that branch for near] 15 months, I made another attempt | |get into the active-service branch, tbi ■time being successful, and was in caa i when the armistice was signed. Hi that not taken place, I would bat j been on my way Home. Am I not entitled to a square da las much as a returned soldier? i though all honour to the returned mai I —l am, etc., NOT A RETURNED SOLDIER, Christchurch, January 18. PROPOETIONALISM. To the Editor of THE SUN. Sir, —The burning question of the di in our local politics is to be discuss at a public meeting on Thursday. Tl method of voting and the process I obtaining results were explained at tl last election. "We were told that tl total number of valid votes, or vote divided by the number to be elects and adding one thereto, gave the quol required for the election of a Candida) The next step was to count all the fir preference votes-, and all the candidal who secured the quota were declan elected. That douo, the transfer i votes was taken in hand; a long aj wearisome process, resulting in certai other names obtaining the desired quo) leaving two seats still to be lille Finally, after all this manipulation, wi recounts galore, the tired-out officii and experts gave it best, and the t» highest of the remaining eamlidati were added to the list, and the whi 1(5 declared duly elected. Now, sir, as the two last did not gi the required quota, even after era possible vote had been transierre down to third or fourth, or Com ness knows what, preferences, seems to my untutored mind thi there was a compromise wil principle—always an evil courseand that to that extent tl whole system failed. Either it wi vital that each candidate elected mu get the quota, or it was not. If it we an essential of the system, then tl two last were not. duly elected. On tl other hand, taking the first-count vot( on the first-past-the-post principle, tin would have been elected, and their p« tion unassailable. V