Title: Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2, Issue 17 (26 May 1888)

Editor: Robert Coupland Harding

In: Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 2

Publication details: Robert Coupland Harding, 1888, Napier

Part of: Typo

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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It is satisfactory to the publisher of Typo to know that his work meets with appreciation. It would be easy each month to fill nearly a column with kindly notices from contemporaries in the New Zealand press, were we so inclined. Leading trade organs in all lands have accorded Typo favorable notice, and have proved their sincerity by sending regular exchanges. To all who have helped or encouraged us by support or sympathy we tender our thanks. We have made no change in the lines we originally laid down, and the only change we contemplate is an increase in the number of our pages, so soon as increased support shall warrant. Closely as we pack our matter, we are hampered for space. Our primary object is the advancement of page 37the typographic art in all its relations. To this end all our efforts are directed. We have consistently denounced, and shall continue to expose those influences which are at work to demoralize journalism and the healthy public sentiment it should lead; and we have not hesitated to condemn the short-sighted and selfish tactics—on the part both of employers and employed—which have already degraded and have tended to the ruin of a noble calling. It is not depression without, but greed and envy within, that has made the printing trade for the past year or two a losing business to all engaged in it. Our friends, if they choose, can strengthen our hands in many ways. The simplest and most obvious method is by subscribing. They can also send us occasional items of interest to the craft. All comps are ready writers, and a post-card is not expensive. And as Typo is not printed and published for nothing, we are not prepared to place everybody who sends us occasional items on a free list. We wish to have a regular correspondent (not too long-winded) in each of the four big cities. We have a good contributor in Wellington; but our Auckland correspondent died four months ago, and no one has taken his place. Correspondence from the Australian colonies, where our journal is also read and appreciated, will be welcome. And there is one other way in which subscribers can help us. They can shew Typo to their friends, and thereby add new names to our list.