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Hokitika Guardian, 28 August 1925, Page 1

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KXI’KKT VISITOR’S I.M I’H KSSION'S ciiitisTcimucu, Aug. 27. \ glowing trihut(* to the Now Zealand newspapers was paid yesterday by Sir Kinsley Carr, director and editor of the “News of the World,” a Sunday paper with a circulation of 1,0011,000 which is twice that of any other newspaper in the world,. Sir Kinsley has served in every branch of the newspaper business. Joining the stall' of the “Western Mail.” Cardiff, at the age of eighteen he has undertaken every class of reporting assignments except that of attending the hanging of a condemned man. fu 1891 he became a part proprietor ol the “News oi the Woild the circulation of which was then only US.OOO. and by supplying the news that the public wants the circulation has now reached the enormous total of 4.000.000. and is steadily increasing. With his thorough knowledge of newspaper production. Sir Kinsley is well ((ualiliod to express an opinion on the subject. “1 am greatly impressed with the character and quality ol the Ne" Zealand newspapers, and f can assure you that they have nothing to learn from the Old Country.” said: Sir Kinsley. Tie stated that he Imd visited a 1111mher of newspaper offices and found that they had the most up-to-date plant and machinery, and were conducted with the greatest of efficiency. All the papers were produced in a manner that reflected credit on those responsible for them. The editorials, as might he expected in a country so highly educated as New Zealand was. were of the highest character and seemed to express the honest 1 onvietions of the writers. So far as the rest of the paper was concerned. the suh-ecliting was equal to anv he had come across in the Old Country, and the reporting was done not only with great care and accuracy. but dealt with matters with vivid interest. New Zealand was to he heartily congratulated on its newspa pel’s.