Higher Rates For Pim
p. 20 · Read in the full issue
AFTER the end of the year, we shall be obliged to increase the. charges for Pacific Islands] Monthly subscriptions, and for advertisements. Details will b* given next month.
During 1951, there have been four major increases in basic wages in the Australian printing and another rise is likely in February. In the same period! paper has very substantially in creased in cost. Postage has gone up by about 50 per cent.
In an effort to avoid raising ratesE we reduced the page size of the PIM in August, thus reducing costs of paper and postage. But those economies have been more than wiped out by further rises in wage& and materia*!.
All Australian manufacturers are in the grip of this mad spiral, to which there seems no end. These constant rises in prices of products are unsettling and irritating—but we cannot avoid them, if we are to remain in business.