THE TUAKAU "PRESS."

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 493, 2 January 1920, Page 2

THE TUAKAU "PRESS."

Publication Ceased. The high cost of producing newspapers shows no sign ot relaxing; rather, it is increasing, wages having gone up under the latest award, and paper, which was slightly reduoed in price for a time, is now above tlw ww level of prices. Under such stresses papers that are not established are finding it hard to keepj going. The Tuakau "Press has now publication, its last issue havingH&m produced just bafore Xmas Tn hia own words, the proprietor (Mr J. Caridge) said: 'For some time I have felt that J have not been doing myself nor the community justice, and if I am to continue newspaper work I must settle in a newer locality, and so help to develop it, as I have done in other new districts in the past." The demise of the "Press" will not mean thatTuikau'slocal publication requirements will be neglected. The Fbankltk and Pukbkohe Times has always provided a go >d n<ywa service for Tuakau, and will continue so in future as in past. In return for tbii service, and for the mutual advantage of the district, we venture to hope that a reasonable volume advertising will appear in. its columns Also, as is now fairly generally known, our job printing department produces work second to none, and at mftondMft'' rates. There will "shortly be an addition of valuable machinery to our plant, when _we shall be able to increase 1 our services in every respect, and Tuakau, as one of the most important of townships in this district, will reeeiye its full meed of attention.

Each township, no doubt, would} like a newspaper of its own, but t-i establish a reasonably creditable production would cost at least £3OOO, which outlay, and the heavy running expenses, takes a hvge t«wu and district to provide sufficien* advertising and printing to pay for