CONFERENCE OPENED
UNITY OF COMMONWEALTH
Importance of news
United Press Association—By Electric Tele-
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CAPE TOWN, February 5.
j The Governor-General of South Africa, the Earl of Clarendon, in opening the Empire Press Conference, welcomed the delegates to what tie described as the land of gold, both above and below the ground. They had assembled in South: Africa at a most characteristic moment of her history. Recalling Lord Rosebery's remarks at the opening of the first conference in 1909, when he described the conference as of greater importance than the gatherings of Prime Ministers and Ministers, he. said that Lord Rosebery's remarks: ; about "transient .statesmen and the permanent Press" were as true today as in 1909.
South: Africa's problems' were little known outside, but a solution wouldhave an important reaction far beyond African shores.
He expressed a desire to see still greater improvement in the volume and selection of Empire news and informative articles. He was quite sure that the delegates would return to their own countries strengthened in the. desire to preserve the unity of the great Commonwealth of Nations.
The delegates last night were entertained by the famous Cape Town Municipal Orchestra, the director of which, Mr. Pickerill, had composed,a special overture in their honour.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 11
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