A Word to Some Sub-SCRIBERS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 129, 8 May 1883, Page 2

A Word to Some SubSCRIBERS.

Under the abore heading a Wairarapa contemporary make 3 some severe remarks on subscribers and advertisers who are dilatory ia paying their accouats: — " It is a shabby and dis-» creditable thing not to pay a newspaper account when it becomes due. There are special reasons why newspaper claims should be paid punctually, The newspaper proprietor has to pay naubh of his expenditure m cash. Printers* wages^— the chief item — have to be paid every Saturday. Telegrams . h a ve to be paid for on delivery. All newspaper travelling expenses involve an immediate cash outlay. On the other side it is all credit. Advertisers and subscribers all obtain credit, the latter for a period of three months. When quarterly newspaper subscriptions require to be collected over a large district, and their individual amount is small, the costs of persoaal collection amounts to a heavy per centa^e oa i hem. Yet some people when waited upon by the newspaper collector riding round, meaaly mak^ delay m paying up a paltry account of five shillings. This is very wrong and discreditable. People should rigard it as a- moral obligation to p*y such subscriptions at once when due. It subscribers wish their news* papers to be improved and enlarged, and to furnish a greattr amount of news, they should strengthen the hands and cheer up the heart of the- pro* prietor by sending id their subscription regulary, either m stamps or by P. O. Order. We have the poorest possible opinion of any man or woman who delays paying up his or her newspaper subscription. Every newspaper m the colony should publish " A Black List" of the most heinous of such defaulters. That would perhaps s ame them into paying up. .... '.. ''