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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 181, 15 May 1903, Page 4

The most notable instance on record of a theatrical manager kicking against the press pricks in the historical fight against the "New York Herald." A combination of New York managers objected to the "Herald's" Mr Walkiey, and so expressed their opinion to the late Mr James Gordon Bennett, the founder of the great paper in question, and asked him to suspend his critic. Mr Benuett was a terrible autocrat when he chose, and he firmly refused to make any concession: The manageis uttered the dire threat of withdrawing their advertisements and ultimately did so. Mr Bennett chuckled. Time went on and no notices of any theatre in New York appeared in the "Herald" The managers squirmed and finally decided to restore their advertisements. Then came a period of great consternation ; Mr Bennett refused their patronage at any price and for more than a year not a line of advertisement or notice appeared in his paper. Eventually, when the proprietor thought he had grilled'his victims sufficiently, he allowed their advertisements to be restored to his columns but at exactly double the original rate ; and New York managers are suffering to this day by having to pay to all the papers the heaviest rate reached for any class of advertisement.

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