Canvassing

Press, 20 October 1978, Page 8

Canvassing

Sir, — As a member of the National Party team checking the electoral rolls it has made me very angry to see the letters from Labour supporters criticising our work. I have spent many unpaid hours on this thankless task, and wish to say that the whole job would have been considerably easier if some of the known Labour supporters had spent less time being positively rude and more time helping me to establish whether they were on the roll correctly. It seemed to me, as I called on each home, that some people just did not care, and others simply told mer it was none of my business whether they were even on the roll. With that attitude it serves them right if they do' not get a vote. Do not blame me; I tried. — Yours, etc.,

D. CALCUTT. October 16, 1978.

Sir, — C. S. Brittenden says that in seven years residency in Opawa he was never called on by the Labour Party. If he is the C. S. Brittenden who used to live in the electorate until April, 1977. I am not surprised. He was known to be a National Party supporter and in those days the Labour Party did not undertake total electorate doorknocking. He had obviously moved by the time the Labour Party commenced its electorate-wide canvass in February, 1978. His former address ” was visited in March, 1978. — Yours, etc., H. M. JONES. October