EARL JELLICOE'S HUMOUR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20643, 15 August 1930, Page 8

EARL JELLICOE'S HUMOUR.

POWER OF ,|HE PRESS. NEW ZEALAND'S NEWSPAPERS. r [from our own correspondent.] LONDON. June 27. A speech in response to the toast of "The Press and the Empire," was road# by Earl Jollico* at the Royal Empire Society's banquet to the Imperial Press delegates. "So far as the press is concerned," said Lord Jellicoe, "I feel I have very littla reason for responding to the toast, becauss my connection with the press is more of less limited to polite refusals to contribute articles of 300 words on various interesting subjects of t,he day. I have, for instance, been asked, to state whether, in my opinion, golf is a game which is good for the Empire. (Laughter.) I have been asked to contribute an article on whether ladies should shingle their hair. I have been asked to state my opinion whether modern girls,would made good wives; and to turn "to subjects which aro perhaps more technical, I have been asked to write articles of 500 words on the question of whether the submarine should bo abolished, and also on the question—that great question of the clay—of parity. "The press has a great power for good. It may also be a great power for evil.' I hope my friends of the press will tak<* my words to their hearts to night, In® chairman has spoken of t lie odd thousund newspapers representative ot the hmpno which are to be found at the Koval Empire Society's rooms in Northumberland Avenue. I am acquainted with quite a certain number of those papers. I ie 3( the English press. I read the New land newspapers all the time. The fcnj.* lish press I look upon as the pattern to the whole world. The New Zealand l"f s ® I look upon as the pattern to the Eng is press. (Laughter and cheers.) "I have liot the slightest doubt that the other Dominion newspapers are » pattern to the English press. My knowledge of them is not so extensive as m. knowledge of the New Zealand pieMy house is full of papers from New miland at the present moment. I saw more interesting pictures than *j ® of those representing the arrival o new Governor in New Zealand, am new Governor-General's wife, who of the most attractive smiles 1 ha\e seen. (Hear,-hear.) 1 am certain th, they will spend as happy a timei . Zealand as my wife and I spent selves."