How Papers are Started.
The Marton paper speaking of the failure of Mr Arinit who tried unsuccessfully to, establish a newspaper m Waitara, says ."—"This is a fair example of the class of people who talk so much about starting newspapers.- They have nothing to lose and trust to the gullibility of the public to pull them through. Anything'lost on the spoc. belongs to somebody else, and they make a fresh start with light hearts and easy consciences." Perhaps it is not generally known that when the Marton paper was started, an ad misericordtani appeal was made, to the subscribers and advertisers of the paper that was to be to pay cash m advance ? This is a fact, A great many did so, and a paper would not require very much capital to start on those conditions. The dodge would not work now-a-days, we tear. People are not so green as they were then, and we doubt even if the .proverbial persuasiveness of the present proprietor could work the oracle m a similar fashion again.. We understand that the sleeping, pavtnep m Wellington was greatly deli»h.tQd. afc the superb financial skiU di§pjayed by the chief p.rQJepto,r m the establishnjent of the enterprise on a limited capital. But more of this anon.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 6, 16 February 1885, Page 2
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211How Papers are Started. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 6, 16 February 1885, Page 2
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