1. An article in last month's edition stated that the programme would produce housing at a cost of $512,000 per unit. The figure is correct. The article attributed it to the bond authorisation. It appears in an analysis of the authorisation. The Gazette regrets the error.

2. The same article described the figure as "a cost." It is an average. Averages of this kind are sensitive to what is counted as a unit and what is counted as a cost, and the article did not say which convention was used, because the reporter did not ask. The Gazette regrets the omission.

3. A follow-up article compared the figure to a lower per-unit figure from another state. The two figures use different conventions. The comparison was arithmetically sound and told the reader nothing. The Gazette regrets the comparison.

4. A subsequent correction to that article stated that the conventions "differ slightly." They differ substantially. The Gazette regrets the characterisation of the difference between the conventions, and notes that this is now the third item concerning the same number.

5. An editorial argued that the figure was too high. A letter in response argued that it was defensible. Both were within the range of reasonable interpretation and the Gazette stands by publishing each. Neither the editorial nor the letter identified a household.

6. The Gazette has now corrected the figure, its source, its convention, its comparison, the characterisation of that comparison, and the tone in which it was discussed.

It has not at any point asked who the money is for.

That question was in the original authorisation, was in the analysis, and has been in every document the Gazette has quoted from since. It does not require a correction because the Gazette has never printed an answer to it, correct or otherwise. We are recording it here because it is the only thing in six items that anyone will still care about in a year, and because we have discovered that a newspaper can be scrupulously accurate about a number for a very long time without going anywhere near what the number is being used to settle.

The Gazette regrets this and does not expect to stop.

Corrections appear in every issue. Errors of fact may be reported to the desk. Errors of framing may also be reported and will be filed here.