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New Zealand Tablet, 26 August 1920, Page 23

Advance in “Tablet” Subscription It is with reluctance we have to notify an advance from date in the Tablet SUBSCRIPTION FROM 13/- TO £1 PER ANNUM PAID IN ADVANCE; HALF-YEAR, 10/- PAID IN ADVANCE. We have been able to hold back this advance until the present owing to judicious forward 'buying of paper and other requisites. But now we have commenced using stocks of paper at an advance :of 300 per cent, on pre-war rates. As has already been explained by daily and other newspapers, other charges have advanced to alarming rates; wages, ink, lead, lighting have advanced considerably ; postage has been doubled by the increase just passed by Parliament; further, the increase in our subscription list has drawn to a larger extent than was anticipated on our stocks of paper. It is our aim to keep the paper going out at the lowest possible price, and shareholders are getting nothing out of the actual working of the paper— a small dividend being paid out of the interest earned on other invested reserves. WE HAVE ABANDONED THE BOOKING OF ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS, as this is the source of greatest loss to the Company.. As soon as we can see our : way clear, we will certainly reduce the price. >• , . , _ " THE DIRECTORS OF THE N.Z. TABLET, DUNEDIN, AUGUST 11.