UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION

Hawera Star, Volume L, 20 February 1931, Page 5

UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION

MEMBERS’ ANNUAL MEETING. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) ROTORUA, Feb. 19. The annual meeting of the United Press Association of New Zealand, Ltd.,' decided to remit all subscriptions due from the papers in the earthquake area, amounting approximately to £1350, for the year. The annual report and balance-sheet were adopted. The meeting approved of the resolution protesting against the attitude of the Cricket Council in refusing to grant recognition to the association’s representative reporting on the New Zealand cricket team’s tour of England. Messrs C. Stanley Smith and W. Easton were re-elected directors. Mr 0. G. Ivamber was re-elected auditor. It was resolved that tho next meeting of the association be held at Auck. land.

A presentation of a substantial cheque was made to the retiring manager, Mi W. 11. Atack, to whose ability and fidelity many tributes were paid. Mr A. M. Burns, general manager oi the Christchurch Press Company, was elected chairman of the board of directors for the ensuing year. Mr Burns was for 17 years on the staff of the Press Association in Wellington and at Cable Bay, Nelson, having joined as a cadet. He left the association service to take up the position of sub-editor of the “Christchurch Press,” from which he rose to the managerial chair.