EMPIRE PRESS UNION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12016, 5 March 1920, Page 8

EMPIRE PRESS UNION.

INCREASED COST OF PRINTING PAPER. tf United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received March 5, noon Sydney, March 5 Z The Empire Press Union report showed that owing to congestion on other cables the Pacific during 1919 carried million words. In regard to the enormous increase in the price of newsprint paper it was stated that many newspapers had been compelled to increase their prices, and it was foreshadowed that others will find it impossible to continue their present prices for long. Ah invitation was reoe|ved to enrol the Union in the Australian section of the World’s Press Congress at Sydney In October. It was decided not to enrol as an organisation, but members would be left free to take individual action.