SERVICE TO COMMUNITY
BR.ESS OF DOMINION
BUSINESSMAN’* TUI I ITT E
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. A tribute to the press of New Zealand was paid by Mr. M. G. C. McCiiul, (luring ids presidential address af the annual meeting of the Wellington Chamber ot Commerce to-night. “To the press 1 feel that some particular acknowledgement is due for the contribution made, by newspaper editors of this country to the stability of thought and sanity of action at n. time when chaos appeared fo be enveloping the world and utter ruin imminent to all, said Mr. McCaul. ‘‘ln the times of our exuberance in post-war prosperity they counselled caution, and when in the •Slough of Despond’ of the great depression. they held out hope of better times if we had but courage .enough to profit by past, mistakes amt correct our faults, and faith enough to plod bravely forward.
“The press is an influence for great good or great evil. Ils influence is always great. We are fortunate, in that m this country, newspaper editors have -.et before themselves a high ideal of service to (lie community ’’
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18961, 11 March 1936, Page 3
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188SERVICE TO COMMUNITY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18961, 11 March 1936, Page 3
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