Pacific Readers
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PIM TO GO BY AIR TO ALL
FROM this issue, 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 re-arrangement of air freight charges, which in future will be paid by PIM 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 the South Pacific in the past.
The improved arrangements make it possible to fix a standard nominal price for PIM, which from this issue will be 3/- local currency in all British Common wealth South Pacific Territories, Tonga, Western Samoa and the New Hebrides; and elsewhere in
the South Pacific, 50 French Pacific francs or 60 US cents.
Yearly subscriptions will be 36/-, 600 francs or 7 dollars. Subscrip tion 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/- will mean some readers will pay slightly more for their copies than in the past, but the spreading of the distribution cost will enable the publishers to give all South Seas readers the same speedy service.
In the few Islands with no air facilities yet, PIM will be air freighted to the nearest connecting seaport. . The new rates will only affect subscriptions due from now on.