EMPIRE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 7 May 1924, Page 7

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Received May 7, 1.10 p.m. ~ ,■. ;■ LONDON, May 6. - Lord Burnhaan- presided at the first of a series of monthly Empire Press -Union luncheons arranged to enable overseas newspaper*men to meet each other. He announced the union was presenting Mr. Towttend, the principal guest, with a portrait in oils in cornmemo ration of his seventy-one years' .newspaper work. 'He added that English newspapers would improve the ser~vice with the- Dominions if the cable companies, instead of conserving their surpluses, reduced cable costs. - If competitive wireless vwas available the ■service would be better still. Mr Devison, Sir George Fen wick and a cost of London editors were present ■Sydney Sun Cables.