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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3717, 27 September 1906, Page 2

Some people apparently think that the newspaper man maintains an expensive plant, continually replenishes his stock, pays his workmen and does a hundred and one things more without money. If an entertainment is going forward he is told that “ the committee 1 ’ can only afford a few shillings for advei- ring and printing. A lengthy fcpoit of a backscratching nature is, however, expected to appear in his columns. His bill—-and the doctor’s—is in many cases allowed to stand over. Now, its just as well to let the unthinking know that the newspaper man cannot exist unless his paper is run on business lines. His advertising columns are to him what the tea, coffee, sugar etc, are to the grocer. How the grocer would stare if committees etc., waited upon him and asked for forty shillings’ worth of provisions and proffered five shillings in payment of same ! It costs a large sum of money and much mental exertion to conduct a respectable country paper — which should be a valuable asset to any community and deserving all the support the townspeople can render it. The. point we desire to make clear is that while we are willing to assist any movement, club, or society, by publishing reports etc., we cannot exist on complimentary tickets.