New Zealand Journalist At Ottawa Conference

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6918, 23 July 1932, Page 7

New Zealand Journalist At Ottawa Conference

WIDE EXPERIENCE ABROAD New Zealanders will be interested to learn that a fellow New Zealander, Mr. Gordon L. Gilmour, journalist, on rhe staff of the Sydney Morning Herald, has accompanied tho Australian delegation to the Imperial Economic Conference at Ottawa, as the Press correspondent. Mr. Gilmour will cable the proceedings to the Associated Newspapers of Australia, and the news will then lie transmitted to the New Zealand newspapers. Mr. Gilmour has had wide experience, as all through me Great War lie held tho position of War correspondent, being responsible for all the news transmitted at that time to New Zealand newspapers. Mr. Gilmour was born in Dunedin and educated at High street school anc! the Otago Boys’ High School. He started his journalistic career on the stall of the Dunedin Evening Star, then later joined the Dominion in Wellington. Erorn there he went to Sydney and was on the Sun for a time, before he went to London, and afterwards to the war zone for four years. . When the war was over ho became editor of the Daily Mail in Paris, a paper published half in English and half m French. Eater Mr. Gilmour returned to London to the Press Association, and a few years ago returned to Sydney. Mr. Gilmour Is a son of Mr. J. B. Gilmour, of Dunedin, and a brother of Miss J. Gilmour, child welfare officer, Palmerston North.