“CUT" IN PAPERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1922, Page 7

“CUT" IN PAPERS.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—You were recently rather severe on civil servants when discussing the first and second “cuts.” Now, Mr. Editor, I wish to ask you when you are going to apply a cut to the price of your daily paper. I mean, of course, to regular subscribers. Your price is still 100 per cent, above pre-war. I suppose the recent arbitration award affected the salaries of your office staff, but nothing has as yet reached the public. Why not apply a first and second cut and come into line with the rest.—l aim, etc., “REGULAR SUBSCRIBER.” [The first and second cuts in the salaries of the civil servants have not affected our telegraph charges, which remain at 200 per cent, above pre-war charges, nor are the cuts reflected in the postage, which Is 100 per cent, above the pre-war rate. The arbitration court has not given any appreciable relief to newspapers in the matter of wages. Todaj- it costs just three times the amount to produce the News that it did in 1915. Even in pre-war days a daily paper at one penny was the cheapest article on the market, the penny being a ■ • .'tnre than an xression of value.—Ed.]