THE Inangahua Times. SATURDAY, SEPT 27, 1913. The Week.

Inangahua Times, 27 September 1913, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. SATURDAY, SEPT 27, 1913. The Week.

Is there no ho;-e of an imnrove ?ren! ing place IS THERE in the Council? NO HOPE ? I* oiu- ( f our sagicouncilbrs always tost there throwing pellets ?;t anothei ? Is the Ccir.cil overdraft never t.i be tx■•neuished or decreased? Are we ever tj see the figur. s LBO3O oc! I on the lists <. f the Couiv v « verdraft ? These are questons that we should answer.

The County management grows from bad to worse. THE Dtbt at d debt is COUNTY mounting up The MANAGE* WTidt'al! of L4OO ME\T. f ron Miuchison has go !- —swaluAve i up. t e e h;-s ?t gone ? So we on and on. YVlr't are we of? But the Council can do no wrong.

There can never be a free Press on ihe Coast —for STOP THE the tree men on P,U J ER! ih-Const iesortt > ihe t ; . r nt's r-rgu-merit - thev itp she p p?r. No i a per can issue its o; in on~bu> s doe- 1 o Ike < s d 'as a-d "stops the p per.'' A on ho li he -o s-e a_ v.niih d"S rvedly heL ' ! M"> ;i! i> ii■ oi e< i. i bjet t • ;ton ly wmii it comes to ! k so.-, and "stops _ the paper.' .h- County Council clo.s not Ike an article and stops its i bbinfi." Mr Eoozer tineatens tise editor wi'h the penalty of " stopping the pap ? rr,"ifhe rej coils the Coart. /> cleigyman ? threatened once to stop the paper ' because the editor could not iee I is wav to publish a two column kit r on a thecloJc.,! subject. The paper tdks ofa County Council employee wila a shovti on h shou'ehr and two (.r I\ ur ag! it.vi dpt rsous m3rch in and ' stop the paptr'' A lady who changed her pihtics stop" ped the paper," because the paper had not changed with he - .

Srme growi at the local paper and fay it should A COUNTRY be better. How PAPER. can it be better ? Tnere were three pr ners in one firm in Reefton i ; hey got one tree paper for services rendered and then passed it on to a btother-inslaw. Mu-re re tinee partners in another [inn and they get one paper between them. And they wan! i.be paper to b? bc'ier. How can abe better, with their kmc, to support it,

The country paper has its uses to non subscribers. If THE USE yon meet wiih.-tn OF A sc. idem at a c.;: a \ COUNTRY yoih; 10n, it h i t-t ] FA PER TO s ate ilv.it \ou si _ I NON-SUB- ped on a piece of SCRIBERS. orange rind though you have stopped | your paper. You ask it as a favour (keep news, out, though other > papers are brimming over with it j | and you don't keep it. When you 1 make a speech at a social func-C 1 tion, you spend a penny next day to ?ee how you were reported This is ve r y noble of you—very I generous, you generally boi- | iow it from your next door neighbour—that is you cadge it. If you supported it as your neighbour does, well the pa l or would be better. So if you read ;hic :vi 1: ;i"d a e not a subscriber to ',he " T,inv j ! you ir.a-. ha\e an idea wh t your neiglr bour thinks yru are.

To subscribers, the country papet is ever kind It TO knows its short- J SUBSCRIBERS toriiings. i l ' know- ! it has done its best. Short staffed, badly mac- 1 h ned, under difficulties ihe aver age man knows no'hiisg cfbroken belts and snapped sprigs also late adveriisements, it snuggles on. The editor edi's and [manages and reports, collects i and canvass: s. The hand bit le ; gamely wth their work. There |is no business where there is. | such loyalty, and e&prit-de-corp.-I as in a printing office.

Just a word of an actual instance. On liiursday tinAn paper lightly meiv ACTUAL tioned a fact that INSTANCE had occasionedsome ammenrnt in Coui t, of men paying fines befo, e 'hey weie lltud It was an innccen unJiurtii-g p jragraph. But a. business man m Ree.ton, one : of ill -be wi o had paid money into court in somewhat the sann way, ctme roaring mio ou< offi :e took oit his advertisement a. : ■ "stop the paper." The pap- i\ e informed thn astonished edi or |"!:ad no right to mention su-.h things." This is no pl2ce for a piper. There are close on 2000 people in Reefton. If there -<>[e many of these as generous as thi;. man, well we will want as m y papers, !o prevent moss growi g in the stive-s of Reefton.