AN EDITOR'S TROUBLES
SOME 50 YEARS AGO The Bay of Plenty Times of 50 years ago contained the following:— : "We apologise for mistakes in all former issues, and say that they were inexcusable, as all an editor lias' to do is to hunt news, and clean the rollers, and set and sweep the floor, and pen short items, and fold papers, and write and make the paste and mail the papers, and talk to visitors, and distribute type, carry water and saw wood, and read proofs and correct the mistakes, and hunt the shears to write editorials, and dodge the bills and dun and take cussings from the whole force, and tell sub. scribers that we need money; we say wcYe no business to make mistakes while attending to these little matters and getting our living on gonher tail soup flavoured vith imagination, and wearing old shoes and no collar and a patch on our pants, obliged to turn a smiling countenance to the man who tells us that our paper isn't worth a dollar, anyhow, and that he could make a better one with his e\ r es shut.—American paper.''
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 46, 7 August 1939, Page 8
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191AN EDITOR'S TROUBLES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 46, 7 August 1939, Page 8
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