THE PRESS CONFERENCE.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 288, 9 June 1909, Page 2

THE PRESS CONFERENCE.

THE SITTINGS BEGIN. Press Assn— By telegraph— Copyright. LONDON, yesterday. Earl Crowe presided at the opening of the first conference of the Press Conference, which discussed the in-ter-communication of news. He remarked that cheap communications lay behind all prescriptions for bringing the various parts of the Empire closer. Mr Sydney Buxton, Postmas#erGeneral, remarked that the subject was largely a matter of finance. He promised that the Post Office would assist securing the objects of the conference. Other speakers were Messrs Kyffin Thomas, Pink, Fenwick, and Temperly. It was rsolved that the cheapening and improvement of cable rates was a paramount necessity, and a committee was appointed to consider the best means of doing so.