EMPIRE PRESS UNION

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 133, 21 February 1923, Page 5

EMPIRE PRESS UNION

IMPERIAL PUBLICITY WORK

METIER OF OVERSEAS BRANCHES The annual meeting of the New Zealand section of . the Emp.re Press Union was held yesterday in the Dominion Farmers’ Institute, Sir George Fenwick presiding over a large number of delegates. In the report, Lord Burnham was quoted as saying that the amended articles of association were intended to widen fire scope of the union by embracing the weekly press, magazines, trade journals, proprietors’ organisations. and news agencies, 1 berty of nct’on being given to overseas sections. The report referred to ’tho deaths_ ot many prominent persons, inducting J.ord Northcliffe. Sir Cyril Arthur Pearson, and others. The' establishment qf tra scholarships for journalists, it' was stated, was not being lost sight of. In moving the adoption of the report said balance-sheet, the presidentreferred to the pending development of wireless news services an 1 the Imperial wireless chain, his remarks thereon being reported in extenso under a separate heading. ‘“I do not i niit to the Press,” lie said, ‘’the benefits that have accrued through the unceasing watchfulness and sol d work of the union’s council, for the newsnaper Press of our Empire is after all but the servant and the friend of the people, consistently and untiringly doing' its best to look after their welfare in tho incial, business, and political 1 fe of the great communities of our nation scattered throughout the worliT. The material benefits secured to the Press by the activities of the Empire Press Union are no less benen’s that directly and tangibly affect the weFFaro of tlie people. It is this knowledge that must insmre the council in public activities. It is manliest that we who are so far removed from the centre'of the | Empire, should ever remember that it is a duty cast on oversea ne.vspapers to add to the strength of the organsiation which has done so much to forward their interests. as well as those of the newspaper world of Great Britain. The work ot the overseas branches must necessarily consist largely in the coiisiderarion or the bro.uler questions affecting our ’’•■terests which have their origin in hreat Brlta.in. But even in these larger questions the Dominions overseas sometimes take a leading part such, for example, as the methods under wh'cli wireless telegraphy is to be conducted.” Mr. C. \V. Earle seconded the motion, and remarked that Sir George Fen.wick was the mainstay of the organisation in New Zealand. The report and balance-sheet were atUoted unanimously. Sir George Fenwick was elected ch -rnian for the ensuing year "’inmittee was reelected, with the add t.ion of Dr. G. 11. Scholefield. The auditor (Mr. W. Easton) and secretary (Mr. Vv. Dow) were re-elected.