ANNUAL PRESS MEETINGS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14846, 25 February 1919, Page 2

ANNUAL PRESS MEETINGS.

THE PROPRIETORS' ASSOCIATION (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The annual press meetings and conferences opened in Wellington last Wednesday, and have been carried on every day since. The annual meeting of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association of New Zealand was commenced last evening in the Chamber of Commerce. /There were present: Messra. P. Selig, president (Christchurch Press), G. Penwick (Otago Daily), F. Pirani (Feilding Star), H. Horton and G. C. Codlin (Herald, Auckland), L. Blundell and W. J Blundell (Post, Wellington), O. Earle and A. Sando (Dominion, Wellington), C. S. Smith (Evening. Star, Dunedin), W C Whitlock (Tribune, Hastings),.. A. e! Copping (Stratford Post), A. C. Geddis (Free Lance, Wellington), J. Coombe (Manawatu Standard), W. Dinwiddle (Napier Herald), W. C. Weston (Taranaki Herald), Robt. Bell . (Lyttelton Times, Christchurch), Hon. W- J. Geddis (New Zealand Times and Napier Daily Telegraph), G. H. Dixon (New Zealand Times), W. R. Kettle (Greymouth Evening Star), W. Atkin (Westport News), Geo. .. Worth (Wanganui Chronicle), Hugh W. Crawford (North■f, m , :A J_? ocate » Whangarei), Chas. S. Bush (Manawatu Daily Times), Thomas C. Last (Taranaki Daily News), R. P. Furness (Marlborough Express), Cuth--bert East (Timaru Post), C. H. Walker (Hawera Star), R, J. Gilmour Southland Times, Invercargill), W. Cecil Leys (Auckland Star), A. McNicol (Dannevirke News), P. Bond (Nelson Colonist). H. V.. Duigan (Wanganui Herald), A. A. Luoas (Evening Mail. Nelson), E. G Kerr (Timaru Herald), F. Greville (Dairyman), E. . Abbey Johns (Southland Daily News apd Oamaru Mail), W.' C ,Cargill (Morrinsville Star), W. Thomas (Taumarunui Press), and L. J. Berry (secretary). "Y ; -IThe chau*man (MrY Selig) addressed 1 u d< r e B afc *? s * He expressed satisfaction that the enbrnrous sacrifices, will culminate in the near, future in an honorable peace and the. utter rout of Prussianism and its barbarous methods, and the hope that the Peace Conference -will secure for the world a lasting settlement baaed upon right and justice. In the meantime, he said, turmoil, industrial and otherwise, is still unsettling, and. the -war will undoubtedly leave us with new conditions which .*fl*ill have to be cour- - ageously met. Mr. Selig referred to , the deaths of Mr. Peter Dinwiddie, Mr. ■ Herbert Keyes (who for, Bome years was secretary of .the , Association) Mrs. McCullough\(wife of the proprietor of, the Thames; Star), and Mr/ Thomas Temperley ,< (director of the New South Wales Country Press > Association). The chaiis man -referred to,the fact that during his : visit tq England v Mr. Fenwick- was ' the recipient of a letter from;Lord Stamfordham, the King's .private secretary, [expressing , to . members of the Association ;His Majesty's thanks for the.resolution of ; loyalty passed at the, previous annual meeting, ' in the sentiment' of which His.Majesty heartily concurred. '•:• ■■- The chairman also -referred to v the future paper" supply question^, the press mission to England and ; the Western front, and the -World : Press. Congress, opening in Sydney- on November llth next. Mr. G. Fenwick delivered a short address, reporting on the -trip of the press .delegation to war fronts, for which he was thankptL