BRIEF FOREWORD.

Progress, 1 November 1905, Page 5

BRIEF FOREWORD.

IT is well within the bounds of an obsolete and retarding conventionality for a new paper to make a trembling bow, and to simultaneously express a conviction that its advent will supply a ' ' long-felt want." PROGRESS, however, does not proclaim itself as an instrument whereby the lessening of any void may be carried out, but it rather looks to the formation of its own appreciative circle of readers — from the intelligent schoolboy to the critical adult — as the outcome of the excellence of its mode in covering hitherto untrodden ground. As the title implies, the literary matter will concern progress — progress in every phase of com-

merce ; and as commerce must be accepted as the generic head for the subordinate powers of the world, so will this paper treat of progress in engineering, processes, inventions, industrial work, and economics as applied to any of those subjects. The world's patents of importance will be discussed, and attention is to be given the colonial patentee and his work. In brief, then, the publishers' intention is to bear the onus of creating in Progress a journal of first interest to every intelligent New Zealander, and a production in accordance with the advanced position of the colony in the world's commerce.