Marital status
Sir,—The article in “The Press” today about the light aircraft wreckage found near Auckland lists the four people killed, and their occupations. With all due respect and sympathy for the families of the plane’s occupants, may I inquire the rationale for identifying Heather Margaret Armstrong in terms of her marital status as well? (Marital status of the three men was not specified.) Labelling women or men in terms of their marital status generally seems to me inappropriate; in this context it is also irrelevant and tasteless.— Yours, etc., PEG NORRIS. May 28, 1984.
[We do not consider such information either irrelevant or tasteless. We accept that the article would have been more informative if it had given the marital and family status of the three passengers, as well as the pilot.—Editor.]
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