EMPIRE PRESS UNION.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1927, Page 9

EMPIRE PRESS UNION.

"PLACE IN PUBLIC FAVOURS

SIR GEORGE FENWICKS VIEWS Itv Tt-lf-^raiib. —Own CorrefjionUent.) WELLINGTON". Wednesday. In Ins. presidential address at the annual meeting of the New Zealand section of the Empire Press I'nion, Sir Ceorge Fen wick, of Dunedin. emphasised the remarks of Lord liurnham at the lucetinjr of ihe union in London in June last. that the three meetings In England. Canada and Australia had completed the cycle ol imperial Pret>s Conferences. an event of no mean importance. not only to the newspaper Press, hut to the whole Imperial organisation.

*'l think I am justified." the chairman said, "in stating that 1 do not thinlc Jxird • Burnhani claimed too xnueli. for the Empire Press I'nion has undoubtedly become a potent factor in the discussion of vital Empire questions.

"It is not too much to claim that, in tlx- prx*at conferences which have in recent year? l»een held in Canada and Australia. and in the visit the delegates paid to New Zealand wiiile en route to Australia, a great impression -was made on ihe men who guide the destinies of ! hese ., Enl P ire lands in the Southern S>cas. : said the chairman. "They recognised that the important visiting journalists were earnestly endeavouring t® secure information that would enable tfcem come to soun<i conclusions on important questions, and that their judgment would have weight when published on their return to England in tha influential newspapers thev control. "It is men of tlie stamp of Lord Bumham, Sir Rol»en Donald. Major AstoP and other level-headed men of the world, with a facility for absorbing information and coming lo sound conclusions in matters of welfare, who are entitled to atn-ijtion at the hand* of the Empire's ruler-. I feel sure that t is broader aspect of the union's work inu-t receive the" hearty support of our members. although we are far distant iroin its immediate field of actum, and. further. that we feci it an hour to belong to a body that has earned a sound place in public favour. ) The president's remarks w.-re ei.u'.rred bv Mr." I'. Selig and Mr. H. Horton.