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Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 328, 30 August 1907, Page 3

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 werks every issue in their intercut, take up their grievances, urges their requiremens, givFs prominence to their industries and institutions, and makes their locality known to outsiders. Tbe poorest ond most wretched newspaper ever published, is worth ten times its price to every man in the district in which it u published. Ex Governor Francis, of Missouri, speaks as follows of the local report;—“Ench year the local paper wives from £5OO to £lOOO in free advertising space to tbe community in which it is located. No other agency will or can do this Th? editor in proport ion to his means, does more for the town than any other ten more. He ought to b»« supported, not because they like him peraonally, or admire his writing but because the local paper is the best investment local people can make. It may brilliantly edited or over.ilb thoughts, but financially it JxineHt to the community than the toucher or the preacher. Understand tne I do WOnean morally or intellectually but financisßy.” Ihe man who excuses himsubscribing to ik local paper on tbe ground that “times are too bad” must indeed Ve in a desperate w ay—so bad that tha saving of threepence per week will tea from going ou »iinanciai “ buafc '*