P.E.N. ANNUAL MEETING
“No Recognition For Writers” (NZ. Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 27. Writers received no formal recognition in New Zealand and were conspicuously absent from honours lists, said Mr M. H. Holcroft, the retiring president of -the New Zealand centre of the P.E.N., at the annual general meeting in Wellington recently, says a supplied report. The centre had made representations to the Government on the need for more generous literary awards, and on aspects of the laws relating to copyright and literary censorship, which had led writers throughout the country to express their concern, said the report. Officers Elected President, Mr Denis Glover; immediate past-president, Mr M. H. Holcroft; ■ executive vice-presidents, Mrs Ruth Mackay and Mr Antony Alpers; honorary vice-presi-dents, Miss Nelle Scanlan, Messrs Alan Mulgan, Charles Brasch, P. A. Lawlor, and J. C. Andersen; executive committee, Mrs Marilyn Duckworth, Misses Henrietta
Mason and Joan Stevens, Messrs lan Cross and Maurice Shadbolt: honorary secretarytreasurer, Mr J. R. Cole; honorary auditor, Mr M. Morrison.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29499, 28 April 1961, Page 20
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164P.E.N. ANNUAL MEETING Press, Volume C, Issue 29499, 28 April 1961, Page 20
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