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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 5

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Our suggestion as to the formation of a New Zealand Institute of Journalists has been taken up in both islands. Mr Haggen, of the Woodville Examiner, sent a circular to the press on the subject, suggesting a meeting at an early date in Wellington, as the most central point, and received favorable replies from a large number of papers. Mr Fenwick, of the Otago Daily Times, in his reply suggested that the meeting should be held at Napier, on the occasion of the next meeting of the Press Association. The journalists of Christchurch have had a meeting on the subject, and are also favorable to the project.

By the prohibition of « sweeps » in New Zealand, the colony was relieved of the presence of a pestilent class of swindlers, and it was proposed at the Federation Conference to exterminate them in Australia by refusing them the privilege of the mails. We are ashamed to say that the new Postmaster-General of this colony not only declined to assist, but declared that it was the intention of his Government to legalize « sweeps » in New Zealand! We shall come to State Lotteries next.

Alluding in the Auckland press to the Postal Conference, the hon. J. G. Ward, Postmaster-General, says: It is my intention to bring in a bill, with the approval of my colleagues, for a New Zealand penny post, believing that in a short time the increase of mail matter will recoup any temporary loss of revenue. I am also personally in favor of newspapers being carried free if the revenue can be sacrificed, believing that as regards the country settlers the postage on newspapers is a tax on knowledge, and as respects the mother country, I look upon every newspaper sent home as the cheapest and best advertisement New Zealand can get.

New Zealand lithographers, if they would keep pace with the times, must keep their eyes upon the new artificial substitutes for litho stone. The natural stone is becoming increasingly costly, and the exhaustion of the quarries is only a question of time. The Wezel & Naumann substitute has been introduced by Messrs Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, of London, with complete success. The artificial stones are lighter, and in all respects more manageable, cost only one-fourth of the ordinary stone, and can be made to any size required. Some of Messrs Raphael Tuck's fine-art studies have been produced by Messrs Wezel & Naumann on their artificial stone.

We reprint in this issue a kindly notice of Typo from the Paper and Printing Trades Journal, which we value the more, as Mr Southward the editor, and Mr Tuer, the proprietor, are both leading authorities on Craft matters, Mr Southward's well-known Practical Printing being the best printers' handbook in the English language. The writer has, however, fallen into one error, which, as we find it is shared by others, we deem it right to correct. While we have received the utmost courtesy from the English associated foundries, who have kindly given us much valuable information in response to inquiries, and who regularly forward us early copies of their specimen-sheets, we have not received from them one single sample type or ornament. All that we have shown is from our own private stock. The interdict on trade journals makes no exception, and until it is removed any specimens of novelties by the English Associated Founders are procured at our own charges. Not one of the American houses has a yet sent us a sample type or ornament (save one small unmounted « shell » from the Display Advertisement Company.) Some have supposed that the large initials on the first page of each number are sent us as specimens; but such is not the case. We have had a sample font of tint borders, a series of initials, and some specimen lines from the Patent Typefoundry, London, and some specimen wood letters from Gould & Reeves—that is all from England. From Germany we have had three pretty initials from Poppelbaum, a set of sample scroll corners, two domino-types, and four chess pieces from Klinkhardt; the border from Budhard, shown two months ago, and the sample-fonts from Schelter & Giesecke shown last month. From France we have had three sample-lines from Mayeur. The hundreds of other examples shown during the last four years are all from our own stock.