DOMINION PRESS DELEGATES.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19957, 18 June 1930, Page 11

DOMINION PRESS DELEGATES.

SERVICE TO EMPIRE.

MR STANLEY BALDWIN'S APPEAL. (ujaTED rseas associatiok—J>* hugctbic TBLEOBAPE—COPXBIGHT.) (Received June 17th, 9.15 p.m.) LONDON, June 16. Tlxe Empire Press delegates dined at the Royal Academy. Mr Stanley Baldwin, in proposing the toast of "The Tenth Muse," described the world as contracting till one almost heard the crackling of its folds. He asked the Press to give the peoplo tho truth, for unless the people of the various Dominions were told the wholo truth and nothing but the whole truth about the problems of the different parts of the Empire, only disaster could result.

Mr Theodore Fink, chairman of the Australian delegation, in responding, said that the Press appreciated tho note of responsibility in its service to the Empire which Mr Baldwin had struck. Mr J. Hutchison ("Otago Daily Times"), Dunedin, referred to the Maori custom of fattening their captives before slaughter. lie fcaid that some of the delegates were growing a little nervous.

Sir William Llewellyn, president of tho Academy, said that it was hoped shortly to hold there an exhibition of Dominions art.