EMPIRE PRESS UNION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19769, 17 February 1927, Page 7

EMPIRE PRESS UNION

NEW ZEALAND BRANCH ANNUAL MEETING HEID. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Feb. 16. Tho annual meeting of the New Zea ? land branch of the Empire Press Unio 1 was held to-day. Sir G. Fenwic (chairman) presided and there was ; largo attendance of members. | After the annual report had beet . dealt with the meeting passed a vot 'of condolence with the family of th 1 late Sir Henry Brett. ' Mr. G. C. Codlin was elected an ai ■ sociatc member, Sir George Fenwick re | elected chairman, and the same com 1 mittec re-elected, with the substitutioi ' of Messrs C. 8. Smith and W. Blundel for Dr. Scholefield and the late Sir H Brett. The other officers were re-elect cd. The “New Zealand Times.” In the course of his address ff! George Fenwick referred to the demis of the “New Zealand Times.” “It has not been without sincere re gret that many of us saw the demis of a newspaper whose existence ha covered so long a period,” he said “Its somewhat chequered career for i good many years past made it obviou lhat a recovery t<* a sound financial po sition was unlikely, and the close of it career was therefore not a matter o surprise to those who realised that Wei lington could not support two mornin| newspapers. ’ ’ Continuing, Sir George observed: “I has been remarked time and again Ir visitors to the Dominion competent t< express an opinion that the cable ser vices of the Australian and New Zea land Press stand quite in the front rank I think this expression of opinion is wel founded, and that, some of the credi for this is due to the reduced transmit sion charges the Union has from time tx time secured lor us, for otherwise w< could not have afforded to publish sue! complete and ample news.” Work of the Union. “Men of the stamp of Lord Burnham Sir Robert Donald, Major Astor, Lon Astley and other level-headed men o: the world with a facility for absorbing information and coming to sound con elusions in matters of public welfare are entitled to attention at the handt of the Empire’s rulers,” he said. “1 feel sure that this broader aspect of th< 1 Union’s work must receive the hearty support of our members. Of the worli of our own particular branch of th< Union during the past year there is little to be said. Those members of oui branch who have visited England dur ing the year have been the recipients ol the invariable courtesy and attention in many ways accorded to overseas visi tors by the secretary of the Union. 11 may reasonably be expected that ths visits of New Zealand Pressmen to Eng land will become more and more fre quent as the .years go on, and it is ol great advantage to them that they should have the benefit of the Union’s office as a house of call, and of the wil lingly rendered services of the secro tary. ’ ’