REPORTERS AT FUNCTIONS

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28754, 27 November 1958, Page 13

REPORTERS AT FUNCTIONS

Always Invited In Dunedin (New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN, November 26. "The true freedom of the press is one of the really vital factors in our way of life, and in Dunedin this is consistently observed.” the Mayor 'Sir Leonard Wright* said today. He had been asked to comment on thr decision made this week by the Mayor of Timaru (Mr R. E. White) to exclude reporters from civic luncheons hold in that, town in honour of distinguished visitors. “It is our practice to invite the press to every official function arranged for distinguished visitors to the city, for we find that by giving the press the maximum opportunity to get information they are able to give a full service to their readers,” Sir Leonard Wright said. "We have never found that their presence at a function has been an embarrassment to the visitors. "Local government cannot function without press co-opera-tion, and our experience in Dunedin is that this co-operation is a two-way street. Both the citizens of Dunedin and the council are well served by our newspapers.”

linmnrtal Hours.— “Arcady, I’m sure, isn’t so much a place as a time of life, when money doesn’t concern us, love doesn’t worry us. and death doesn’t trouble us because we think ourselves immortal.' ’--John Moore, recollecting his childhood in Tewkesbury in a R.R.C. programme.