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Press, Volume LX, Issue 17984, 30 January 1924, Page 13

"Throw a paper! Throw a paper!" This was a familiar cry to travellers oti tho Auckland bound express while travelling through some of the small centres in the upper Jtangitikei district on the Mam Trunk (says tho "Wanganui "Chronicle"). They were mostly timber -workers, who hud the craving for newSj and as tho timber went the familiar cry departed. A younger generation has renewed, tho request from passing travellers for news of tho day, and at on© of the small centres .between iMiarton a<nd Taihape rtsap quite a good harvest. The juveniles post themselves in extended order along the site of the railway line. When their luck is m a brisk news-vending business follows. Every well-known newspaper has its price and valuer One of the dailies, particularly when races are on, can be disposed of readily at 3d, and a. popular weekly publication, provided it is not too old an issue, may realise up to shilling.