THE BOYCOTT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 496, 1 May 1909, Page 14

THE BOYCOTT.

'£$*I—When1 —When reading your remarks withrowafco to the Govommcnt's tmjhstifiablo refusal to advertiso in your columns, I was ■iSnterested.-vto not© .that tho circulation of ■fra Dominion exceeds that of the other Wel.2mgton'.nk)iping. paper. , • I thought it might Interest, your, to, know why. ono who has,'had .» largo acquaintance with- iowspapora,• in many -parts of th,o world subscribes to your paper.: .I do, not liye in Wellington, but in ■»m out-of-the-way part of tho South Island, •where mails arrivo only onco .a wook. I , want » good daily paper to giro • mo tho bows, of tho • day and goda Tj-ell-wTitton artij iclas in tho, leading cohnntw:. j am WcH ao flfuaintod with :tho dailies of: AttoJdand, Wellington, Christchtirch, and ■ Du&Slm, ; and ttftar caroful oomparisoa I - choceo Tita Do.minion ps tho best all-round daily papar published in New* Zealand. .. I think that per- .. Ihaps one.or two surpass it. in 'somo 'dopartinents .. (o.gi, tho. -literary. columns •' of jvtho . .Saturday Supplement), but on tho whole I . ylaoo.TnE Dominion first. Your paper is often roferred to by. tho Government press -, »s Hho organ of tho big landholders/' tho equattore'.jpaper," and .so' on., I don?t-own ©no square foot of land in New Zealand, but I believe your politics are sound,and if they aro the politics of the landowners, the more of thoso landowners • and of' othore of their way of_ : thinking wo have in Parliament tho : better it will bo for all Now.Zoalan&jrs. ' Of coorso I do not know the actual figures with icspoct to tho circulation ■ of. tho loading .papers, but judging from the many distant ■ raid out-of-the-way. .places in which'l have : seen .The Dominion, and trom tho exprcs- : sions of approval. I made' Trith refejonco to it, T should say it was-in-a fair way - to. become; the Now - Zealand ■ paper. I v' encloso my card.—l am, etc;, ' ~ - ■ ■ OMEGA.