PRESS ASSOCIATION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16677, 26 February 1920, Page 6

PRESS ASSOCIATION.

ANNUAL MEETING. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Feb. 23. The annual meeting of shareholders of the United Press Association was attended by forty members. The report of the directors regretted that two members of the board, Mr. H. Brett and the Hon. G. Carson, had been obliged to resign on account of illhealth. The former had been oil the board since the establishment of the association nearly forty years ago. Sir G. Fenwick was congratulated on his knighthood. The report explained that it was intended to hold the meeting at Akaroa, hut the venue was altered, as for several reasons Akaroa was found unsuitable this! year. i Th balance-sheet showed a profit of £1748, principally owing to the lessened cost of cables, of which, during the year, 676,886 words were supplied. Allusion was made to the prolonged congestion on the cable routes, which was not yet removed. This was owing to danlago to lines during the war that could not be at once repaired, and to the heavy pressure of English Government messages to India and the East. A new -feature of the cable news was the otter of the Imperial news service, which was open to all newspapers which chose to publish it, and was being supplied free of cable charges. It was mentioned that the text of the Peace Ti-eaty contained 13,098 words, and it was said to be the longest press cable over sent over the wires. This had been franked to all papers. .Some concessions bad been obtained from the Telegraph Department in the Now Zealand rates, which would give a certain amount of relief, especially to the small papers. The chairman, Mr. L. Blundell, delivered an address on the business of tho year, which was ordered to be printed and forwarded to shareholders. Messrs. H. Horton and W- C. Leys were re-elected directors, Mr. R. J. Gilmour was elected in the Hon. G. Carson’s place, and Mr. W. C. Weston as tho representative of tho provincial evening papers. Wellington was selected as the place of the next meeting. The chairman brought up the question of a memorial to members of the staffs of New Zealand, newspapers who had fallen in the war, and on his motion the question, was referred to the Newspaper Proprietors’,. Association, with a recommendation to act.

At a subsequent meeting of directors, Sir G. Fenwick was elected chairman. The chairman and Air. Atack, the man-' ager, were deputed to represent the Press Association at the Press Congress of the world at Sydney in October nest.