We apologise for mistakes made in a* y former issues and say. that, they were inexf < usable, as all an editor lias to do is to hunt news, aim eh an the rollers, and set type and swe» p the floor, and pen short items', and fold papers, and write wrappers, and make the-paste, and mail the paper's, and talk to visitors, and distribute type, carry water and saw wood, and read the proofs i.-nd correct the mistakes, and hunt the sin ars to write editorials, "and dodge the bills, and dun delinquents, and take cussing irom the whole force, and tell subscribers that we need money ; we say we’ve rid business to make mistakes while attending to these little matters, and getting our living on gopher-tail soup flavoured with imagination, and wealing old shoes, and no collar, and a patch on our pants; obliged to turn a smiling countenance, on the man v.ho tells us rur paper i-ii't worth Idoh anxliow, and that ‘lie could irt.,ke a better one with his eyes shut. Kxdumge.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 462, 12 April 1890, Page 8
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