15th December 1965.
1965 has been a year of constant expansion for "The Week". Our readership has doubled and the number of correspondents and sponsors has constantly increased. We can now call on reports from individuals in all parts of the world. Our attempts in the first three months of this year to have "The Week" printed commercially failed owing to a shortage of working capital, and we are now making plans for 1966 in order to improve the appearance of the publication and the servicing of your subscription. In January, we intend to move into new premises from which "The Week" will be produced and despatched. This has been made necessary by shortage of space and the increased amount of work involved. We are also intending to introduce new equipment in order to commence lithographic printing and to control the mailing list by addressograph equipment which will, we hope, prevent inaccuracies in our mailing procedure which have caused inconvenience to some of our readers. We also require collating equipment, stapling machines, guillotines, filing cabinets, a new typewriter and other equipment if expansion is to continue. All this requires money! We have managed to finish the year on a more or less even keel (although there may be a small deficit), but we need a considerable amount of finance to fulfill our plans for the first months of the New Year. Christmas brings many calls on one's resources, but we hope that all our readers will see fit to send us a modest Christmas box in the business reply envelope enclosed for your use. May we also ask that those of our readers who owe us money for their subscription, or for copies obtained on sale-or-return, can settle their account this month. Meanwhile, we thank all of our readers for their support during the last year, and we hope that with your help we will be able to obtain the equipment and machinery necessary to provide a better service in the coming year.
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