PRESS OF NEW ZEALAND.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 April 1937, Page 4

PRESS OF NEW ZEALAND.

"UNFRIENDLY AND VICIOUS ATTACK." CRITICISM OF REV. C. G. SCRIMGEOUR. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HAMILTON, This Day. In the Editorial of this month's Waikato Diocesan magazine, criticism is voiced at the attack on the Press by Eev. C. G. Scrimgeour. "By comparison with many of the 'Dailies' and 'Weeklies' published in. England, the newspapers of New Zealand are of a very high standard," says the Editorial. "They are surprisingly free from that elieap sensationalism which characterises so many of those papers to which we have already referred. We entirely fail to appreciate even the truth, let alone the advisability of the attack which 'Eev.' 0. G. Scrimgeour launched against the Press of New Zealand. So far as the publication of religious' matter is concerned, the principals of the daily papers of New Zealand are most generous. Further more, they hold the balance very fairly between the various denominations, and we have nothing but gratitude to express for this fair and courteous treatment.

"Were this not an Editorial but rather an expression of the personal opinion of the writer, we should have something to. say. about the 'flabby indefiniteness' of this new cult known as 'The Friendly Road' from which has emanated this most unfriendly and vicious attack upon those who, without any mouthing of the word 'friendly' have at least shown themselves to be frienly towards all that is for the general good of the people of the Dominion."