JOURNALISTIC APPOINTMENTS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 127, 30 May 1908, Page 5

JOURNALISTIC APPOINTMENTS.

[from: our correspondent.] ■ WELLINGTON, Friday. In the journalistic world'therb is a mild flutter of excitement over the appointment of Mr Guy Scholefield, of the New Zealand Times (on which paper he is chief of the reporting staff) ' to the important position of London correspondent for four leading New Zealand journals, to wit, the New Zealand Herald, the Evening Post, the Christchurch Press, and tho Otago Daily Times. The proprietors of these journals are to be. congratulated upon having chosen so good a man. Mr Scholetield, who is small in stature, is big in brain, and a better all-round journalist probably does not exist in the Dominion. He'is a well-educated young man, on the right side of thirty, and has a special flare or nos^ for news, which has resulted' in Tin* Times making several distinct "scoops"—to'-.use journalistic slang—during the past two or three years. He came to Wellington some ten years ago from Dune'diii, where he had occupied a very minor position 6n the reporting staff of the Otago Daily Times, and has worked his way to the front with indomitable perseverance and industry. Gentlemanly in his manners, tactful and. well educated—he wohthtf Bow en prize a few years ago, and has ;contributed to the. Nineteenth Centtfry—he should niacke his way in London, where he succeeds the late Mr Roiis Marten. London Letters are not nowadays so important a^'ea--ture in our New Zealand journalism as they used, to be when the 'mails were lees- frequent, but there are special topics and special occasions upon which a London correspondent's personal work can very usefully supplement the cable news. Mr Scholefield's departure is a sad loss to The Times, "for which he collected the mqre important .official and political news. He will."be hard to replace in this particular capacity. A second, journalistic item is the appointment of Mr Pierce C. : Freeth, the managing-editor of The Times, as permanent New Zealand correspondent of the London Standard, which, as you have no doubt observed, is 'now issuing a special weekly supplement entirely devoted to' news from the various * outlying parts of the Empire, and articles on subjects? of Imperial raster than purely British importance. Special ' correspondents are being appointed at each of the Australian capitals, and now' New Zealand is to be represented. Mr Freeth, whoa cmiple of years aero made an all-round tour of the world,, visiting'lndia. China and Japan, as well as the United States and the Continent, is a very smart, up-to-dato journalist. The Standard has got a good man. I understand; that Mr Freeth will still retain his position on The Times, into which journal ho has put quite a new life.