SAN FRANCISCO PRESS CONGRESS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2422, 30 March 1915, Page 3

SAN FRANCISCO PRESS CONGRESS

By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrigbf Chrlstchurch, March 29. \ Mr. P. Selig, president of the iNewspapers' Proprietors' Association of New Zealand, received by the American mail ou Saturday an invitation to the association to be represented at the Press congress to be held at the Exposition in Sail Fraacisco on July 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. In referring to the congress, the director of the coligress, Dean Walter Williams, of the School of Journalism, University of Missouri, outlines the programme, and says that each association, under the plan of organisation of the congress, is entitled to Jivo delegates, exclusive of its president and secretary, who are delegates ex officio, and one additional delegate for j each fifty members or fraction thereof. I would be glad to have you appoint representative delegates _ from the Newspaper Proprietors' Association, or, if time permits, and you deem it best; present the matter to the association at its first meeting. When delegates are elected, please send me their names and addresses- You will approbate, I am sure, the desirability for early action. Such delegates will receive a cordial welcome from their colleagues of the Press of the United States, and will bo enrolled in the congress membership, and will receive the special facilities extended by the I'anama Pacific Exposition.