Editor:
I suppose that what follows is a statistic within a statistic and that it still holds true.
Two censuses ago, I was a census form distributor in Gibsons. I was given instructions to deliver about 300 forms to the same number of addresses in my assigned area. One in every six forms, if I remember, were the "long" forms. In other words, I was to deliver the long forms to about 50 addresses.
I can remember only one objection. And that was from someone I knew well. "Why not," she suggested (nod nod, wink wink), "give the long form to the next address, and give me the short form?"
Smilingly, I refused.
I do hope our MP John Weston will agree that this statistic still holds and that he will lobby in favour of it within the higher ranks of his own party.
Congratulations to him on the passage of his own private member's bill, but shame on him, via his frequent postage free mailings, for slavishly following the party line, whether sensible or senseless.
Bernard McGrath
Langdale
