PRESS AND POLITICS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 256, 21 June 1932, Page 5

PRESS AND POLITICS

METROPOLITAN ED.ITORS NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF COUNTRY MOTION AT MEETING HAMILTON, Monday. Discussion took place at the annual meeting of the Hinuera Ratepayers' Association regarding the recent conference between members of the Cabinet and city newspaper editors, relative to measures for coping with the economic situation. Strong exception was taken to the apparent assumption by the Government that the views of city papers necessarily reflected the opinion of the country at large, and that the city editors only were competent to advise in regard to the policy needed for rehabilitation. The feeling of the meeting was crymoved by the president, Mr. P. R. stalised into the following motion, Hawke, seconded by Mr. J. Cotter, and carried imanimously: — "That this annual meeting of the Hinuera Ratepayers' Association urges the Government, when next it holds a conference with newspaper editors, to invite not only the editors of metropolitan dailies, but also editors of all rural daily papers published in towns of 5000 or over in population. That this meeting is of the opinion that at the last conference with editors rural interests all over New Zealand ought not to have been overlooked by inviting to the conference only men eniployed by -city interests, and not in close personal touch with the rural areas producing the exports without which it is not possible for New Zealand to remain solvent."