NEWSPAPER PROPRIETORS' ASSOCIATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 76, 27 February 1918, Page 3

NEWSPAPER PROPRIETORS' ASSOCIATION.

ANiiUAi. MEETING.

Per Press Association

Wellington, February 20

The annual meeting of the News-

paper Proprietors' Association opened at Wellington on Monday evening and was continued yesterday. Mr P. Selig (Christchurch Press) in the chair. The President in his opening address referred to the war, and expressed a wish that peace would: speedily be brought about with honor to our colors. He reviewed the work: of the association for the past year,' and referred to the deaths of Mr Gothard, who represented the Westport Times, Mr Gardiner, of the Rotorua Chronicle, Mr Lane, editor of the New Zealand Herald, Flight-Lieut. Leslie Brett, son of Mr Arthur Brett (Auckland Star), and Mr J. G. List, brother of Mr T. C. List (Taranaki News). A resolution of sympathy with the bereaved was carried by all standing. He then referred at length to the matter of paper supplies and the difficulty confronting the members in this connection. He also instanced

the strain newspaper offices were feel-| itig due to depleted staffs and the. fact of the calling up of the Second Division accentuating the position. It was subsequently decided to wait upon the Prime Minister with a view to securing more paper by mail boats. At the, evening session of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association, W. H. George, chairman of the Red Triangle Appeal, with A. Varney, national secretary, waited iipou the members to lay before them the urgent! needs.of the Y.M.C.A., and to solicit the support of the newspapers in the effort to make the appeal successful. Officers were elected as follows: President, P. Selig; vice-president, F. E. Hymati; executive, H. Horton, L. Blundell, F. Pirani, G. Fenwick, and E. A. Jones (with power to add to the number, C. Earle, H. Brett, and J. Coombe being recommended); Advertising Committee, E. A. Jones, J. Coombe, W. C. Weston, R. Bell, P. Selig, and W. Blundell; Postal and Parliamentary Committee, L. BlunC. Earle, G. H. Dickson, F. Pirani; Labor and Awards Committee, F. Pirani, P. Bond, R, Bell, W. C. Weston, and A.'Sands; News Print and Paper Committee, G. Fenwick, L. Blundell, H. Horton, P. Selig, T. C. List, A. MeNicol, rind H. V. Duigan • secretary and treasurer, L. J. Berry; auditor", R. B. Bell. Votes of thanks were passed to the Minister of Defence for an invitation to visit Trentham and Featherston; also to the president, secretary, and F. Pirani, the Association's representatives '.in labor and arbitration matters, aiitl to those institutions which extended their hospitality to visiting delegates.