NEWSPAPER PROPRIETORS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21264, 19 February 1931, Page 15

NEWSPAPER PROPRIETORS.

ANNUAL MEETING OF ASSOCIATION. (Per United Press Association.) ROTORUA, February 18. The annual meeting of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association was continued to-day. It was decided to hold the next annua] conference at Auckland. It was resolved —“ That we place on record our endorsement of the Prime Minister’s proposals in regard to a 10 per cent, cut in wages and salaries.” Reference was made to the hardship that the Hawke’s Bay newspaper proprietors had suffered as a result of the recent earthquake. The conference decided to send an expression of sympathy with them in the position of almost unprecedented hardship in which they stood and also its admiration for the courage they had shown under very painful circumstances. They had the best wishes of the conference for an early re-estab-lishment of their enterprises, which meant so much to them. Officers for 1931 were elected as under: —President, Mr C. W. Earle;; General Committee—Messrs C. S. Smith, A. M. Burns, G. C. Codlin. E. C. Hme, W. C. Weston, T. C. List, A. M'Nicol; Advertising Committee—Messrs A. D. Seabrook, E. A. Blundell, A. M. Burns, William Easton. J. Coombe (substitute for T. C. List), P. Furness (substitute for H W. Crawford); Labour Committee — Messrs S. R. Evison, B. Aldridge, G. C. Codlin. E. A. Blundell (Messrs J. Hqwitt and J Brown in a consultant capacity), R. H. Billens, P. Bond: Paper Committee —Messrs H. Horton, W. J. Blundell, A, M Burns, E. C. Huie, W. F. Bissett, A. M'Nicoll, W. C. Cargill; Parliamentary Committee—Sir Cecil Leys, Messrs E. 0. Huie, L. P. Blundell. H. Horton, S. H. Palmer Jones, H. G. Kerslake; treasurer. Mr W. J. Blundell; auditor, Mr W. L. Page.