NEWSPAPER PROPRIETORS' ASSOCIATION.

North Otago Times, Volume CI, Issue 13234, 4 March 1915, Page 5

NEWSPAPER PROPRIETORS' ASSOCIATION.

ANNUAL MEETING. Per Press Association. •TJMARU, March :i, At the annual meeting of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association, Mr P. Sclig, President, in. the course of his address,' referred to the influence'of the war upon the newspaper business. It was gratifying lo (lie Now Zealand Association and the newspaper and printing world Imdeoiitribiitcdthcirsliarc of men for the fighting line, and employers and employees had responded nobly lo tho calls for. patriotic funds. Columns of space had been devotod to the support of nil movements calculated .to-support tho King aiiij' country, and this, ho was sure, would be continued. Reference was also made to the posting of the Jljgli.Canimissionnrlsi .telegrams, Censoring' of' mks, anti'ritrfula'tioirii ''regarding tho non-publication of'news roluting to forces, railway passes, inadequate cables across.Cook Strait, and other matters of particular interest to tho newspaper Avorhl. The lions, 11. 1). Bell and. It. If. Rhodes were invited to lie present at the conference, but they had to express their regret at thir inability to do so.