PRESS CONFERENCE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 63, 26 February 1935, Page 5

PRESS CONFERENCE

Cable and Wireless Charges COMMITTEE APPOINTED Empire Union’s Activities (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received 26, 12.20 p.m.) JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 25. Arising out of a resolution from Capetown that a committee proceed to London to endeavour to bring about a prompt review of Press cable and beam rates and the utilisation of surplus capacity by a low deferred rate of a penny per word, the Press Conference to-day appointed a committee which includes the New Zealander Mr. George Kerr and the Australians Messrs. MeCay and Dumas. Consideration is being given to the question of inclusion in the scope of the committees of cable-rated picturegrams. After a. lively discussion the conference adopted a resolution inviting the attention of the Empire Press Union to the increasing efforts being made to exploit editorial columns by means of disguised advertising. In the interests both of the public and the Press the conference called upon newspaper executives to exercise a rigid scrutiny in order to ascertain the underlying purpose of matter received for publication. The conference decided that in order to maintain an effective continuity of the Empire Press Union’s activities during the five-year interval between conferences there should be annual meetings of a committee of members of the union selected annually in each section. The following basis was selected: Britain, including Northern Ireland, six members selected; Australian, New Zealand, Canadian, .South African and Indian sections, two each; from any other Dominion where a section of the union exists, two members; from members of other parts of the Empire, one each.