EMPIRE PRESS UNION

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 42, 19 February 1931, Page 6

EMPIRE PRESS UNION

ANNUAIS MEETING

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) BOTORUA, 18th February. . The annual meeting of tho New Zealand soction of the Empire Press Union was held to-day. Mr. Henry Horton, chairman of tho section, presided over; a large attendance! ' .■■■ : A motion of sympathy with those suffering in' tho Hawkes' Bay ea,rthquake: was carried, reference being made; to the practical sympathy being shown by the Empire Press overseas. '■'■'■■' \ Mr. ; Horton graphically, outlined the manner in which news from the earth- j quake area had been dealt with, despite the disorganisation of telegraph services. A special:tribute was paid to] Commodore Blake and his officers for the. very great assistance rendered in making available wireless communica-' tion. ,' The most important newspaper event of the year was-the Imperial Press Conference in liondon in June, last, said Mr. Horton. New Zealand had been represented by a delegation of twelve newspaper men, the important business transacted embracing proposals for the wider dissemiriation of,i news relating to Empire affairs both in tho' interests of Empire security I and the extension of reciprocal trade; proposals for Empire Press Union news letters for the wider distribution of information' between componont parts of j the Empire, covering- economic and cultural development; .proposals for cheaper means of communication; and proposals for the development of wireless telegraphy and the long-distance telephone The next conference of the union .would bp held jn South Africa : in 1935. A proposal was under consid- j eration for the holding of the following conference, scheduled for 1940, in New Zealand. Congratulations,were conveyed to.Sir Cecil Leys on his knighthood. An interesting description of tho proceedings at the London conference was given by Mr. R.: J. Gilmour, chairman of the New Zealand delegation. . The following officers were appointed for the ensuing year: Chairman, Mr. Henry Hortoh (re-elected); committee, Sir Cecil Leys, Messrs. C. W. Earle, C.M.G., L. P. Blundell, P. Selig, C. Stanley Smith, E. C. Huio, R. J. Gilmour, J. Coombe, W. C. Weston, and A. M'Nicol; honorary secretary, Mr. Or, C. Codlin; auditor, Mr. D. A. Taylor.