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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18332, 23 February 1923, Page 9

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QUESTION OF REDUCTION. [BY TIXEGRArH.— ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Thursday. The annual meeting of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association was resumed yesterday. A deputation was received from the New Zealand Federation of Drapers and •Clothiers, when the selling pricu of newsi papers was discussed. • It was resolved "That, in view of the probable hardening of the market for newsprint paper in the immediate future, and of the heavily-in- ! creased costs in other directions in the production of newspapers, this association is of opinion that it would be unwise at present to consider any reduction in the selling price of newspapers, but that a special meeting be held to consider the question when the new quotations for I newsprint are announced in June." ' The following officers were elected for the ensuing year:—President, Mr. C. ;W. E'arle; general committee, Messrs. Earle, A. G. Henderson, C. S. Smith, W. C. Leys, W. J. v Blundell, E. Abbey Jones, J. Coombe, and A. McNicol; paper committee, Sir George Fenwick, Meiwrs. H. Horton, Robert Bell, Blundell, R. J. Gilmour, McNicol, and R. P. Furness; labour committee, Messrs.. G. C. Codlin, Henderson, E. C. Huie,' A. Sando, W. C. : Weston, and P. Bond; advertising com- ; mittee, Messrs. Codlin, W. Easton, A. Brown, A. M. Hester, Coombe, and Furness; Parliamentary committee, Messrs. G. H. Dixon, Blundell. Bell, and Coombe; auditor, Mr. G. S. McNair.