STRICKEN NEWSPAPERS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 41, 18 February 1931, Page 4

STRICKEN NEWSPAPERS

AGAIN IX THE FIELD

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) KOTOKUA, 17th February. _ Tlic manner in which newspapers in Hawkcs Bay have risen under the blow of the earthquake was praised by Mr. (,'.' "\V. Earle, president of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association, in his .address at the opening of the association's annual meeting. Throe important provincial daily newspapers ("The Daily Telegraph," "The Hawkcs Bay Herald," and the "Tribune" at Hastings) had had their businesses wrecked and their plant more or less mined by the collapse in whole or in part of the buildings, and in the two' first-named cases by tho effect of lire, said Mr. Earle. It was a matter for pride that the members of the newspaper profession should havebecn almost the first in the heavily-stricken community to rise superior to their mis: fortunes, and set about the colossal task of •rehabilitation. Combined effort had resulted in. the early publication of a modest news sheet, which proved of great service in disseminating information and instruction to people dazed and confused by the ruin and desolation which had so unexpectedly come upon them. Tho sympathy of all members would go out to the proprietors of these publications, and their associates, in the calamitous blow which had struck them, continued Mr. Earle. They dosired also to convey their admiration of the splendid spirit in which they had faced an emergency unprecedented in tho history of the Dominion, and sincere good wishes for a successful outcome of the heavy task with which they wcro still faced.