LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33065, 4 November 1972, Page 14

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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Gladys M. Thorburn.—Sub judlce. Spotlight.—No space just now. Joan Ryan.—Thank you. See yesterday’s column. M. J. Nicholls.—Answered better by a spokesman for the party. Edward W. Hicks.—Repeating it does not make it true. Anti-Socialist. — Correspondence on the local body elections closed. A. G. Fairhall.—You do not specify the exaggeration you complain of. M. J. Nicholls.—Sorry; but the point would be lost on all but a few of our readers. Helen Hervey.—Correspondence on the site issue is closed; and we have no space to pursue the digression. Richard Worsley.—Sorry; we have too many such requests for space in which to acknowledge courtesy or help on the roads. S. Kerr.—Few local bodies have an airport within their boundaries; all have roads. The relevance of your first question to the election campaign still escapes us. R. J. Glen.—You probably overestimate the volume of such gfts —and underestimate the genuity of the Royal household in making use of them for deserving causes. Ex-R.A.F.—In its legal sense "alien” simply means “not a native of.” Its unavoidable use under international law does not imply the sort of affront you seem to associate with the word. Curious.—A rough-and-ready definition of inflation has been given as “too much money chasing too few goods” (and services, including labour). Like most economic concepts, it is far from simple, being affected by many things, national and international.