Pim By Air To All Pacific Islands
p. 15 · Read in the full issue
FROM July thousands of PIM readers in the South Pacific Islands will get their copies of PIM quicker and cheaper. All copies are to be air freighted from now on.
This has been made possible by a 0f n lr u frelg i £ har E g , e , s ; which m future will be paid by instead of the various selling agents who, of course, have had to pass these charges on to readers Thus the selling price of PIM varied widely in tb Ti?° Utb Baclb , c m tbe past ' .
The improved arrangements make it possible to fix a standard nominal price for PIM, which from July will be 3/- local currency in all British Commonwealth South Pacific Territories, Tonga and Western Samoa; and elsewhere in the South Pacific, 50 French Pacific francs or 60 US cents.
Australian or French Pacific currency
will be accepted in the New Hebrides, Yearly subscriptions will be 36/-, 600 francs or 7 dollars. Subscription copies will be air freighted to the Islands and posted there.
Many Islands readers now pay up to 7/6 to obtain their copies of PIM by air; others pay as little as 2/6.
The new selling price of 3/ . win mean some readers will pay slightly more for their copies ,£ a ' past; but , he spreading of the distri . bution costs will enable the publishers t o give South Seas readers the same spe edy service, r .*?. . e few Islands with no air facilities yet, PIM will be air freighted to the nearest connecting seaport.
The new rates will only affect sub scriptions due from now on.