TORCH OF CIVILISATION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18360, 31 March 1934, Page 3

TORCH OF CIVILISATION

PRINTING INDUSTRY In his presidential address before the annual conference of the Now Zealand Master Printers’ Federation, held in Wellington last week, Mr A. Dennison, of Auckland, emphasised the importance' of the printing industry as up accessory to modern commercial enterprise. •Mr Dennison referred to the fact that •printing was known in literary terms as “the art preservative of all arts,” and claimed for it even higher prerogatives and duties. He said that i“as in the'past, so in the future, the jointing industry will have an important part to play In the ordering of human relations. ,!i is not Die source of human inspiration nor Ihe power that guides the stnrifbling ju-ogress of civilisation, but it is undoubtedly the most potent instrument for the enlightenment of the blind of humanity, and while mankind remains eager to he taught, there will be work of Ihe first importance' to be done by printer* and printirig machinery.” This eulogy was introductory to a plea by Mr Dennison for a businesslike adjustment of the jitaeticnl jtroblems new confronting the industry. Major among these was “an orgy of debused juices, la.x trading conditions, and loss jo: unity among , the component sections of the industry.” Mr Dennison outlined a policy which aimed at [the co-operation of all concerned in an endeavor to maintain nml imjirovc the status of the industry.