LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32568, 30 March 1971, Page 16

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

(1) Letters to be considered for this column must not exceed 150 words They should be on only one side of the paper; preferably typewrit ten. otherwise dearlv written in ink: and ample margins and space between lines should be left for con venienee in sub-editing. (2) A Legible signature and fuU address—not a P.O box number are required whether these are to be printed or not (3) The correspondent must say whether the letter has been or is to be submitted elsewhere. <4) The editor cannot return or keep any Letter not accepted for printing; nor does he undertake to acknowledge or enter into correspondence concerning letters, although an acknowledgement will be made where this seems to be necessary or helpful (5) As a general rule, correspondence on news items in other publications, or carried on radio and television, is not acceptable. N. A. Smith.—Address? MA..—No space for the discussion just now. Perfidious albion.—No space to pursue the subject. G. L. Suggate.—Correspondence on apartheid not now open. Indigestion.—Discussed in this column quite recently. Wiser now.—No space to discuss Social Credit theories again just now. F. H. Engelbrecht—We confidently predict that your appeal would go unanswered. West wind.—Too diffuse a subject for useful discussion here. Fisherman.—No space to discuss immigration again now, and your letter does not comply with our rules. From grateful parents who know.—Not in this paper, as far as we can recall. You should write to the newspaper concerned. H. G. M. Kerkhofs.—A peasant is “one who lives in the country and works on the land” (Shorter Oxford English Dictionary); a fanner “rents land for the purpose of cultivation” or “farms land, whether as tenant or owner.”