PRESS MISSION TO THE WESTERN FRONT.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16221, 25 May 1918, Page 9

PRESS MISSION TO THE WESTERN FRONT.

INVITATION TO NEW ZEALAND

(PBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, May 24. The Acting-Prime Minister has leceived tho following from the High Commissioner:—

"The Ministry of Information has invited a Mission of five editors or owners of the Press of New Zealand to visit Great Britain and the Western front as guests of the Ministry. They state that the selection is left entirely in my (our) hands, by which I take it that they mean the New Zealand Government. They particularly desire the mission to be composed of men belonging to the highest standing in the New Zealand newspaper profession, and if practicable, that all sections be represented. The trip in Great Britain and France will occupy a period of four months. It is suggested that they leave at once. The Ministry will pay all expenses. Please inform me as soon as possible what • arrangements have been made, and the names of those constituting the mission." Sir James Allen communicated with Mr P. Selig, of Christchurch, president of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association, who suggested that the matter should be put before the executive of the Association, to which course the Minister agreed. Tho meeting of the executive lias bfeen summoned for Tuesday next at Wellington.