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Fair Play, Volume I, Issue 21, 1 May 1894, Page 1

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Fair Play has undergone a transformation. It is now no longer publisher! by the old Fair Play Company but by Messrs McKee and Gamble, the sole proprietors, and Mr. Hammond, who did such excellent work as editor, has retired from our staff, consequent upon the fact that the paper is only issued once a month, and the editorship has been assnmed by Mr. Arthur McKee, who was for fifteen years connected with joui'nalism in the Old Country. The new editor has secured the assistance of several well-known colonial writers and hopes to be able to maintain the high reputation for brightness and outspokenness which Fair Play has already acquired throughout the colony. An endeavour will be made to make the paper of greater general interest. More attention will be given to purely colonial matters, and articles on colonial music, art and literature are being arranged. That popular feature “ Straight Talk ” will be continued and the social and political events of the month will be criticised with that freedom from bias, and with that honesty and frankness of speech which have in the past gained for us such general approval. A new feature entitled “ Tou Don’t Say So! ” is introduced, in which pointed' and pithy personal paragraphs about people of prominence will be found, unaccompanied by any vulgarity or unduly trenching upon the sacredness of private life. As heretofore, the illustrations will be a special feature, and in these we hope to show [consider-

able improvement in execution. Tho exigencies of a weekly publication prevented many of our illustrations from being properly produced, and with tho ox fra time at the disposal of tho literary and artistic staff, we hopo to effect very many improvements all round which will, we feel certain, be highly appreciated by our readers. Fair Play is not, and never will bo, tho organ of any clique or party.