EMPIRE PRESS UNION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22318, 16 January 1936, Page 9

EMPIRE PRESS UNION

PRESIDENT re-elected LONDON CONFERENCE IN JUNE LONDON, Jan. H In acknowledging high tributes paid to him upon his re-election as president of the Empire Press Union, Major J. J. Astor alluded to the South African conference of February last as having completed tha Empire cycle with its inestimable advantage to Empire affairs.^ Major Astor announced that the first annual conference in London would be held in the week beginning June 8.

Major J. J. Astor, who has been Conservative member of the House of Commons for Dover, Kent, since 1922, i* chairman of the Times Publishing Company. He is the yougest son of the first Viscount Astor, who died m 1919' an d brother of the present Viscount. He was born in 1886, and after leaving Eton and Oxford he was for some time m the Guards. From 1911-14 lie was A.D.C. to the Viceroy of India. He served from August, 1914, to the end of the war. In 1922 he purchased the interests of the late Lord NortliqliSe m the Times, and restored that paper to its lost position, and removed it from financia. and political influences. He and his wife, Ladv Violet. Astor, visited >,ew Zealand in 192-3-, when he was treasurer of xhe Empire Press Union.