PRESS BUREAU MANAGEMENT.

NZ Truth, Issue 534, 11 September 1915, Page 8

PRESS BUREAU MANAGEMENT.

Mr. Asquith recently announced' m the House of Commons that the management of the Press Bureau would bo undertaken by Sir Edward Cook and Sir Frank Swettenham as joint directors. These two gentlemen, he said, had been rendering most valuable services m an honorary capacity as assistants to the previous director. Sir Edward Cook was for many years a foremost London journalist. He was successively editor of tho "Pall Mall Gazette," tho "Westminster Gazette" and the "Daily News," and afterwards joined the editorial staff of tho "Daily Chronicle." Sir Frank Swettenham is an ex- Governor of the Straits Sei*2»**' ments and, like his colleague, is an a.s!r thor. "Truth" could tell by a taste tht»t both men were good at the output of [ fiction.

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