The Suppressed Advertisement!

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 909, 15 January 1881, Page 4

The Suppressed Advertisement!

In our advertising columns we insert the announcement for which Mr. Crawford secured space in the Poverty Bay Almanac, printed and published at the Herald office. This advertisement to our mind presents no feature which would render it inadmissable to any almanac published throughout the length and breadth of New Zealand. The circumssances in connection with this diabolical production serve to show how cringing some men can become, and how by descending to the lowest depths of degradation in the paths of meanness, and by hanging on to the coat-tails of others’ they enrich themselves and gain a position which in their wildest fancies had never been depicted. Mr. Bushnell, the Company’s foreman, started the idea of getting up an almanac;, and amongst others solicited an advertisement for the production (a very creditable one by the way) from Mr. Crawford. After consideration the latter gentleman decided to insert the announcement, which appeal’s elsewhere in our columns. Now the fun comes in. Mr. Adair, one of the Directors of the Herald Company saw Mr. Crawford’s notice, and thinking it would clash with his, refused to advertise at all, unless this objectionable production, as it was termed, was suppressed. Mr. James Browne then came to the fore, and with that smile so childlike and bland, interviewed Mr. Crawford, and saponaceously stated that the advertisement could not be inserted. “ Why not ?” asked our local brewer. “ Well, you see my bonny, that Adair is a Director, and you know old fellow, I’ve got p retty well to do as he tells me.” “ All right ” said Crawford, “leave the space blank, and I’ll still pay the money for it.” Shortly after this a meeting of the Director, and the Manager was held, when it was unanimously decided that the objectionable advertisement should be left out, and the Herald Company should have the .space allotted to themselves for thirty shiHings, and that Mr. Adair should pa’y the balance of the amount agreed upon by Mr. Crawford. We would be glad if our readers, were to read the advertisement so that they might judge for themselves where the objectionable portion exists.