TO OUR READERS.
IT is with the utmost pleasure and satisfaction that we announce our intention to return, in our next issue, to our former price of 6d. At the same time we shall not only use an enlarged type so that the Spectator may be read more easily in a poor light but we shall increase the reading matter. We did not raise our price during the War, though most newspapers felt compelled to adopt that course. Early in 1920 we were, however, forced to go to 9d. owing to the enormous rise which then took place in the cost of production—a rise caused (1) by the immensely enhanced price of paper, (2) by the great increase in the cost of printing, (3) by the rise in salaries of all kinds. Now, however, that the price of paper has fallen—though by no means to its old level—and that there is a prospect of readjustments in the printing trade which will mean less costly production, we seize the opportunity so much desired during the past two and a-half years to become once more a sixpenny weekly.
