PRESS PROPRIETORS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 42, 19 February 1931, Page 9

PRESS PROPRIETORS

WAGES CUT PROPOSALS ENDORSED

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) EOTOEUA, 18tU February. : The Newspaper Proprietors' Association, to-day decided that the next annual conference be held at Auckland. The association placed on record endorsement of the Prime Minister's proposals in. regard to a 10 per cent, cut I in wages and salaries. Bei'erence was made to the hardship that the Hawkes Bay papers had suffered as a result of the recent earthquake. The conference decided to send. aa expression of sympathy with them in the^position of almost unprecedented hardship in which they stand, and also admiration for the courage they had shown under very painful circumstances, and best wishes for the early j re-establishment of • the enterprises j |which mean so much to them. i Officers for 1931 wore elected as follows: President, Mr. C. W. Earle, CM.Q-.j general committee, Messrs. C. S. Smith, A. M. Burns, G. C. Codlin, E. 0. Huie, W. C. Weston, T. C. List, A. M'Nicol; advertising committee, Messrs. A. D. Seabrook, E. A. Blundell, 'A. M. Burns, W. Easton, J. Coombe (substitute, Mr. T. C. List), P. Furness [(substitute, Mr. H. W. Crawford), (Messrs. J. Howitt and J. Brown in a consultant capacity); labour committee, Messrs. S. B. Evison, E. Aldridge, G. C. Codlin, E. A. Blundell, B. H. Bil]ens, P. Bond; paper committee, Messrs. H. Horton, W. J. Blundell, A. M. Burns, E. C. Huie, W. T. Bissott, A. M'Nieol, W. C. Cargill; Parliamentary committee, Messrs. L. P. Blimdcll, Sir Cecil Leys, E. C. Huie, H. Horton, S. H. Palmer Jones, H. G. Kerslake; treasurer, Mr. W. J. Blundell; auditor, Mr. W. L. Page-.