NEWSPAPERS HIT BY THE WAR.

Taihape Daily Times, 12 July 1918, Page 6

NEWSPAPERS HIT BY THE WAR.

SOME INTERESTING FACTS. \ \)U •"i -.'Ti n.' 0f»0 “What a jolly.good thing this war ! is for newspapers. They must be making a pot of money.” •a} This; cadsaE-statementy solfrequently made by theman. inithAstreet,” has almost iipassept sinlto something unlike sober; Tact But it is hotoaifact

72 Newspapers everywhere are having .itheAwbrsftitimftlbfi/itheifohistories. an .1 ; ,) ;-:r'Hapbri;costs;.!fivo -' -'timeS)'iaS' - much ads rit dld-'ibcfore-the! warf. anffi ;everi! then nit aSihardHto get.oGhe; shipment: s comes -to:: hand' and';thb nckt is lef ti to the glorious ■uncertainty of the future. There; is-always- the -chance that when the pap'of does come,it:will have:>.jumped another; £lO or £2G> ia (ton above-the previous . shipment.-:; ' > • ‘ Englandn'isi fooling the paper famine tremendously. ;Pap cr S-th at before the war printed-;rl2, -/14y 16,- and: even i 24 p,agcs)> the size - of d the'/Daily Telegraph) as - a reghlar daily thing for a penny, now creep out with four, six, br eight pages, and charge twopence. r H r The- halfpenny dailies, which gave eight to twelve pages daily for the small coin named, now issue but four i pages—six on ' a pinch—for a penny. The most marvellous production of the whole lot is the Daily News; Before and' during -the earlier stages of‘ the war it -published six to eight pages, -size 17in. by 24in. for one halfpenny To-day its size is eight pages; ISin by 17in for one penny, and on more than one occasion it brought out a four-page sheet the size of -a good ■big-pooket-handerehief, and; the price was still one pehnyl The Daily Mail, Express and Chronicle, all famous half-penny dailies, have cut down their pages from 12 to 6, and occasionally 4, and' doubled their price. Tire Times which used to bring out 20 and 24 pages- daily—with special editions up to 48 pages—for one' penny now gives 14 pages for threepence, and limits its output to ISOjOOO. The Morning Post and Daily Telegraph have also curtailed their pages -and increased their price. - Where- their daily issue used to be anything from 14 to 24 pages for' one penny,- they now gl&e-ftonly dJgbt with occasional jumps to 10 and 12 pages for twopence. ’ r!; ■” ‘ A—”

Even in America, the home’of paper, and * the land of big editions, prices have gone up and’ sizes home' down In France' the newspapers - are mere sheets-, in some' eases two, ; ahd at the most; : foul* pages. The 1 prices have‘been increased in a good number of chses, and quite a riot of papers unable' to bear-"the ,r ‘added : host i!i "' : were dropped out—waiting for peace and cheaper paperf 1 ' : i iI "