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NZ Truth, Issue 250, 9 April 1910, Page 7

Journalism m New Zealand must be at a very low ebb \yhen device has to succeed .device m order to induce. the public to subscribe to a newspaper claiming to rank as a leading metropolitan journal. No sooner has the "N.Z. Times" finished counting the shekels raked m from its noting contest, than it inaugurates another scheme for extracting shillings and pennies from the children of 15 years and under. It certainly does look bare-faced to see the full particulars of this children's competition advertised on the same morning that the "Times" publishes a report of several charges against itself and its editor " for establishing a lottery, establishing a scheme by which prizes of money were competed for by a mode of chance, .etc., .arising .out of one scheme, and of ..two other, charges against, the same newspaper arising out of . its' recent voting compeVfon. T^c hand of Iho Yankee, however, is apparent from the style of the puffs, and a Yankee is noted for his hrazenness and blatant bombast. Grammar, seemingly, is a negligible quantity, with the said Yankee ; to wit, — "It was ideas, system awl organisation that elected Miss Bodmin to , tour the world for New Zealand "