‘management.

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"voting intentions in — the

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~ the gall to print it.

remarks: on
. telephone . ‘statements 0:

Voting: intention in. that’

- riding. I-can tell you, on the.
basis. of over 20 times that
many face-to-face interviews
‘on the: doorstep that your
. fabricated survey will not
stand-up in several ways.”

. Gibson went on to assert
that the undecided vote is
“nothing like 43 per cent — it
is much lower”.

The Conservatives, ‘he
claimed, are not leading in
this area... “in the riding as a
whole it would not surprise
me if Mr. Cook (the Con-
seryative candidate) came in
third.”

..Vhirdly, said Gibson, the
“News. sample was far too
small, “even if it was an
honest one”.

The Liberal candidate
concluded by issuing two
challenges. If Conservative
candidate Cook leads him in

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the February 18 vote, he.
(Gibson) will spend. a Sunday

» delivering copies of ‘The
News.

In feturn, if the ‘present

y survey proves “wrong”, he

become a North . Shore.
News carrier if he’s wrong.

seeks an undertaking that
The News. will use only
surveys “taken by genuine,
independent, non-politically
biased polling firms”.

Gibson also challenged

The. News to ‘print, during

,€lection, a North Shore

rvey taken by such.a firm
as “Gallup, Canadian Facts

or other reputable pollster.”

Commenting on Gibson’s
letter, News editor-in-chief

‘ ‘Noel Wright said: “While we

welcome the opportunity of
publicizing Mr. Gibson's
viewpoint, we are a little

surprised that a public figure
of his standing should ex-
press. his disagreement in

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The Public Opinion
Research’. Division «- --which

conducted ‘the survey ‘is .a:

permanent: and’ separate
department of the ‘North

_Shore: -News . organization,
and ‘entirely independent; ‘of.
the. editorial department, -
Wright said. 7 J

“Tt is staffed by. -€x-

perienced pollsters who
twice-weekly
surveys: ' on every kind of

“Subject. There is no working.
_contact.of any kind between
‘the pollsters and editorial
personnel.
‘receive their survey results.”

We merely

As regards the size of
the sample, Wright said.
approximately 370 of the
North Shore’s roughly 49,000
households are polled in
each survey. In order to
ensure a fair geographical
balance a_ proportionate
number of households,
different in each survey, are
chosen at random for each
of 14 zones from Deep Cove

to Horseshoe Bay.
This, Wright noted,
compares to the regular

Gallup: sample of around
1,030 for
surveys. “In proportion,” he
said, “The News sample for
the North Shore is over 50
times larger.”

Gibson’s charge of

“political bias” in the survey,_

Wright said, was “absolutely
ridiculous”.

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re (r). present the money
which . was’ raised by
members of the Deep Cove
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Cove community as the
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“Certainly, we adopt strong
editorial positions and give
full freedom to individual
columnists writing under
their own names.

“But in our news sections
we will lean over backward
to present objective facts in

.as balanced a manner as

possible. And we are never
afraid to correct any errors.”

“fhe News, Wright added,
would be happy to print
similar surveys by reputable
polling firms at any time,
regardless of whether they
agreed with the paper’s own
surveys.

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“Starting Monday,
February 2, used newspapers
will be picked up for North
Vancouver District residents
on regular garbage days. But
not by the District.

District council, Monday,
gave official approval for
New Life Recycling, a North
Vancouver firm which
collects waste glass, metal
and paper products for
recycling, to trail or precede
the District garbage
collectors on
collection days specifically
to pick up used newspapers
and flyers.

The District collects about _

9,000 tons of garbag

‘annually - about 2, 000
pounds per household - and™
as much as twenty per cent

ollow trucks

But-

- arrangement the service has
regular,

of this has been made up of
newspapers. This new,
approved activity by New
Life Recycling will save the
municipality time, costs and
landfill space.

New Life already does
weekend collections of used
newspapers in a rotating
pattern of areas and this
monthly service recovers
about 80 tons each month.
with the new

a potential of increasing to

‘350 .tons monthly if all

District
ticipate.

‘residents  par-

In order to be picked up,
residents are requested to

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together and pile them near
garbage cans.

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