An American Authority on the Local Raper.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 313, 24 May 1907, Page 3

An American Authority on the Local Raper.

It is the duty of the people of every district to support a local paper, where there is one, writes a leading American exchange, It wc rks every i&ue in their interest, takes up their grievances, urges their requirements gives prominence to their industries and institutions, and makes their locality known tc outsiders. The poorest and most wretched newspaper ever published, is worth ten timesits ] rice to every man in the district in which it is published. Ex Governor Francis, of Mis-ouri, speaks as follows of the local report;—“Each year the local paper gives from £5OO to £lOOO in free advertising space to the community in which it is located. No other agency will or can do this The editor in proportion to his means, does more for the town than any other ten more. He ought to be suppoi ?d, not because they like him personally, or admire his writing, hut because the local paper is the best investment local people can wake. It may not, perhaps, be brilliantly edited or overcrowded with thoughts, but financially it *• is of more benefit to tho community than the teacher or the preacher. Understand me I do not mean morally or intellectually but financially.” The man who excuses himself from subscribing to a local paper on the ground that “times are too bad” most indeed be in a desperate way—so bad that tha saving of threepence per week won’t ■top him from going on a financial “ bust,”