FIFTY YEARS AGO

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14067, 14 February 1939, Page 2

FIFTY YEARS AGO

COUNTY ADVERTISING. (From the “Pahiatua Star” of February 15th, 1889). (To the Editor). Sir, —1 notice in your issue of Tuesdaj’ a motion in Cr. Birnie’s name re. the advertising for the County, and I was pleased to see that the County advertising was given to tne Star as well. I have seen and spoken to a great many of the ratepayers, and they strongly object to the printing going to the Examiner. Truly, a great many of them were village settlers, and I suppose they have in mind the Examiner’s opposition to the County being formed. If Crs. Wliitcombe, Miller and Co. were to try to find out what a struggle it is for latepayers to make both ends meet, they would find they can t afford the .luxury of two newspapers. Their interests are so bound up in the welfare of the County that it seems quite natural that they should resent the advertising going to apaper which was till quite recently doing everything in its power against the welfare of the district. Cr. Birnie is to be recommended for liis action in moving the resolution; his reasoning is the result of long experience, both in the Australian Colonies and New Zealand, which will benefit a young county just starting on its career far better than all the education in the world, if it is used in such bitter terms as I have seeji it carried out in newspaper controversy between two councillors in Pahiatua lately.—Yours respectfully.

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