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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 3

Our Birthday

page 142

Typo, this Christmastide, can do no less
Than send congratulations to the Press:
To those who still, through good report and ill,
Maintain their ground with courage and goodwill;
To those who watch the swiftly-changing age,
And stamp its features on the daily page;
To all who toil with type and press and ink,
That knowledge may increase, and men may think.

Each Chapel, through its Father, he would greet,
And wish success and happiness complete,
Their lives to brighten, and their hearts to cheer,
Through many a long and prosperous New Year:
(With no exception to his kind desires
Save oneextinction to the Monks and Friars!)
And placing all upon a common level,
Sends kind regards and wishes to the Devil!

Our Birthday.

Typo this month completes its third year. How far it has carried out its original programme its readers can judge. That it has taken its place among the world's trade journals is a fact of which every mail brings us evidence. Not only do we find our paragraphs quoted and going the rounds in various European languages; but correspondence from leading members of the Craft, English and foreign, has shewn that our work has met with appreciation. We have an overwhelming number of New Zealand exchanges, and we are sorry that they are not of the same value to us as they would be to a general newspaper. We cannot open more than half of them, and may look through twenty at a time without finding a single item « in our line. » While acknowledging the kind and generous assistance received from many of our brethren in the Trade, we regret that the majority do not appear to realize the value of a local trade journal sufficiently to subscribe. Those who do, continue. Except in one or two cases of subscribers leaving, and uncertain as to their future address, not one has written « stop my paper. » We would remind workmen—from apprentices upward—that for their annual subscription they receive a.full equivalent. The « wrinkles » alone are worth many times the money to a practical man. Not only this, but we provide a fairly complete record from month to month of the typographical and literary history of our own colony, and to a less extent, of the Australasian colonies also. We would remind possible advertisers and subscribers that the position of this journal in the Craft is unique. The Australian group or colonies is one of the largest, wealthiest, and most active regions in the world, and Typo circulates through the whole, and is moreover, the only periodical of its class published in Australasia.