EMPIRE PRESS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 7

EMPIRE PRESS

ANNUAL CONFERENCE. I HEATWAVE AT CAFETOWX. CAPETOWN, Feb. 4. . With the arrival to-day of the British ami Canadian delegates, the per(sonnel of the Imperial Press Conference is complete, and the first session was held this afternoon when Major Astor wa selected chairman, ami Air. T. \\. Mackenzie ( Hloemfonlain) de pu ty-chai rman. One British delegate. Mr. F. ( Coleman, editor and pro propietor of Modem Transport, ami other publications, became seriously ill during the voyage ami was carried ashore on a stretcher. During the proceedings of the conference. which opened in a lu ilwave, a message of greeting was read from the New Zealand section of the Empire Thi! most imports til item on the technical agenda is imperial communications for press purposes, including cable and wireless charges. Other | subjects for discussion al FapeTown and later at .lohannesbnrg include the pre<s ami censorship, libel laws, Empire news services radio broadcasting, subsidised competition, and copyright. Keen regret is felt Ly all of the the ilclegatcs at the illness of General Sunils, not only on personal grounds, but becau.-e he had arranged to address the delegates on the. vitally important subjeri of native policy in Africa, also on world affairs. General Sr,nils allemled the Assembly on Fri<!,ny but was e\ideally unwell. Among the British delegates is .Mr. Lionel (‘urlis. founder of the Round Table ami one of the famous group of young men known as Lord Milner’s Kindergarten, whom Lord Milner appointed to administer affairs after the Boer War