28 JANUARY 1966, Page 14

SIR, —In his report on the Hull North by-election Alan Watkins

states that the canvassing technique now being used by Mr. Jesse) was first used at Devizes.

As one who helped, and also ran, at the Brigg

by-election of 1948, I can vouch for the fact that the technique was certainly used then.

MAURICE CHANDLER

Rutland House, 8 Brookhouse Street, Leicester