GOVERNMENT ADVERTISING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15924, 9 May 1912, Page 6

GOVERNMENT ADVERTISING.

The Opposition organ in Wellington certainly has little reason to complain of the treatment it has received from Ministers of the Crown since it started out on its vivacious career. They may have denied it advertisements to which it was fairly entitled, but they have given it oilier advertisements which must have far more than compensated it for any loss of revenue it has suffered. Mr- Laureuson seems determined to be no less generous than his predecessors were iu this respect. At Stratford last night he delayed tho delivery of a very admirable speech, which our correspondent reports at some length this morning, while he entertained a large audience with a full and particular account of tho choice morsels that might be found in the columns of our contemporary. We have enjoyed some favours of this kind ourselves from speakers on the other side of politics and we know their value to a newspaper, but we think that while Ministers are striving to make a just partition of Government business they should also see that eacli journal in the dominion receives its fair share of ministerial notice. For a long time past the newspaper mentioned by Mr Laureuson has had almost a monopoly of advertisements of this kind and we are quite in earnest when we say the method of distribution should be revised.