NEWSPAPER PROPRIETORS ASSOCIATION.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1684, 26 February 1913, Page 7

NEWSPAPER PROPRIETORS ASSOCIATION.

* — , .- the Annual meeting, . (By .Association.): : ... Auckland, February 25. . r Tho annuhl meeting) of tlio- Newspaper Proprietors' Association of New Zealand was opened last evening : in tho Chamber. . of Commerce, the president (Mr. P. Sclig, of Christchurch) occupying' . ehkir. : , Tho balance-sheet showed a credit of .£93. 13s. 2d. for tho year; l ' r ' . In the coursa of his review of the \fork , of tho past -year' the' president pointed out that in tliis, its fifteenth ;yenr, the aeso-s elation: could have been said to have oniterod a new stage in its career,- Since tho. establishment.of the association its inem- ' borship,had-risen from 31 JL0',62,.. vhich.-, was sonic indication of the press develop- « ment'in tlie Domiilion. Referring. to,th«■ unrest , among tho employees in many . departments, lie spoke of> the .recent' Wo-y minion award for linotype .'operators ■nnd'i jobbing i compositors': as being.. far ' from' U satisfactory, (o employers" In country of- " flees'especially its effect had been'6orious,; ; one of -the country proprietors having ! slidwn that it. had meant hn. of - ,£250 per annum: in. his 'wage-sheet. All- . other matter was the. demands of "tho journalists through the Journalists' Institute nnd the recently: formed.unions, He ; and other proprietors; Mr. Seli|{went Oil,* ' had no objection to the-application' of tho Arbitration Act, ibuf lift was sure that that brilliant. journalist, , .My, Peinber. Reeves, hod no intention when lie framed . that measure' for'the benefit of tlio Do--minion workers, that it should anply-to. other than mechanics and unskilled won# crs, As a goneral'tiling 'tlio professions--were rcmunorativo for-those engaged in them,' nnd .lie thought that with few l,exceptions journalists as a vrholo wpro not dissatisfied with the conditions ruling in ', New: Zealand. Reference was also mado by the president to the relief: given'by tlio_; Government to : tlic proprietors.in the mat- • tor of s conveying newspapers'/ovcr rail-',' ways, thus bringing rates more in lino with'"' Australian rates, Mr. Myers.when Min» ! -', ister, nnd'Mr. Herries, his\ i aiCcpS?or, < had both, admitted the rensona'bleness- of tlio proprietors' representations;; Another mutter for'approviil was the decisions of tlio Ministers for Public Works and Financo to. supply the ■ annual' statementsof, Departments 'in' advance, and it-was to'> bo hoppd'' tlio Government would Mlowi; out this course mall eases whenp practic-' , able. After dealing 'with ri number^of" other, matters of tonical-interest to newspaper..; pronrietors Mr. ■ Sclig - moved adoption of tho, report, which Wis carried... amid applause. A number of matters arising from the report were referred to different commit- ; tees,. which met- before the general meet* J ing resumed in tho Chamber of Commerce this 1 morning; : The.Newspaper Proprietors' Association: accepted an invitation to attend Ihe nei'j formanee of the "Get-Rich-QuiekWalliljgl*'■<! ford* Company at his Majesty's Theatro ' on' Thursday - night, and one from tlio president of.the' Auckland Howling Club ' ■to visit the club's greens during the week. , On Friday'afternoon the visiting delegates | will be tendored-a harbour excursion by - tho p'ronrictors of --(hp "New . Zealand nHerald. ' ~ .. ;