“OBSERVER” IN TROUBLE
(N.Z.P.A. Reuter —Copyright) LONDON.
The “‘Observer,” one of Britain’s oldest Sunday papers, may have to suspend publication in the northern autumn unless one third of its 700 staff are sacked, a spokesman for the newspaper said in London last night.
Management and unions will meet tomorrow to discuss the problem. The paper — published since 1791 — has lost £500,000 this yean Its circulation from last October to March, this year, fell to 794,161. It was more than 818,000 for the same period a year before. In 1967 the corresponding figure was 908,000.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33873, 19 June 1975, Page 22
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