INSTITUTE OF JOURNALISTS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 5 September 1908, Page 5

INSTITUTE OF JOURNALISTS.

ANNUAL REPORT.

(Per Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, Sept. 3. Ihe seventieth annual report of the Institute of Journalists states that during the past year a good deal of useful work has been done by headquarters, mainly,, in the. direction of finding employment for members. During the latter half of the year an employment circular has been issued monthly to everj' proprietor of a daily newspaper in the Dominion. An improvement is reported in the salaries of journalists engaged in the principal centres, Wellington particularly. Fortuitious circumstances have enabled journalists to secure a more adequate wagel than they havo ever previously enjoyed in New Zealand; states the report, but" we can-' not; expect to Jmaintjuri; this-a;pproved: : ; position by cbntinuiiig to ;exhibit ;: an!? apathy in regafdjt^organi&ition, which: baa' t^een a causeVof■ discouragement to>: the ;fe# ■ energetic^ worker.£ iyrho have/ for e^nie- years struggled hard to keep thft IrijstitiVte alive; ;^ improved conditions are .not;.eo rsaWr factory, in .the country,;,"wljere joiifnar lists hare nttt:"shared in the recent behter; fits; and •there He': need for Yin these directions^; An impoi^int niattet vyhich jshoiild "r^e-ve attention djiring the ; ooihing'*year is the leristii-tbf. notice; mqHiired jtp -s<leterniine|>.^Engagements; The law seems deal*, but cises occur occasionally in which an editor's employment terminates at exceedingly short notice, while in regard to reporters there is no general rule. An increase, in the amount of subscriptions to headquarters is-suggested, for""^lie reason that an active i>olicy of benefit to the whole of the profession in New Zealand can only be effectively inaugurated and directed by a central authority.