3 JUNE 1949, page 18

Electricity Accounts

Sta,—Like your correspondent, "Accountant," I received my quarterly electricity account, and from it, as from his, the meter-reading dates were omitted. I wrote to the manager......

Archbishop C Hrysant Hos

SIR,—Does Mr. Harold Nicolson know that the "puppet Chris.antos " to whom he refers with some contempt in his Marginal Ccernrizent of May 27th is the " splendid " priest whom he......

A History Of Rotary

Sta,—I have been commissioned by Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland to write a history of the Rotary Club movement in this country. I am receiving every possible......

"the Naked And The Dead"

SIR, —It was obvious to anyone in contact with troops during the war that a novel accurately reporting their conversation would be impossible, unless it were unprintably......

A Fixed Easter

Sul,—Janus's remarks on the advantages of a fixed Easter in your issue of April 22nd are altogether deplorable from a churchman's point of view. Easter is fixed by the Paschal......

Women And The Ministry

Sta,—In the Spectator of May 27th Mr. H. Martyn Sanders writes as follows: "The Apostle to the Gentiles held the ancient Jewish view of the female sex as the inferiors and......

Battle Of The Saints

Sm,—In her most interesting article, Guadeloupe, in the Spectator of May 27th, Miss Freya Stark gives the date of the battle' of The Saints as April 11th, 1792. Should it nor be......

Siii,—if Membership Of Parliaments, Town Councils, Of...

staffs is irrespective of sexual differences, much more should the Christian Church seek to transcend the question of sex in its appointments to its ministry. Not to do so is to......

A Tale Of Bricks .

Sta,—Though all brickwork cannot be laid at the same rate, it is surely possible to classify most work into a few categories, for which fates could be fixed. The fixing of......

Village Post Offices

Sig,—There is much criticism of the Post Office over the proposed increase in telephone rentals. In this village we complain because we have no post office at all. This is due......