NEWSPAPER PROPRIETORS’ ASSOCIATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 48, 25 February 1913, Page 5

NEWSPAPER PROPRIETORS’ ASSOCIATION.

ANNUAL MEETING. (Per Press Association.) Auckland, February 25. The annual meeting of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association commenced last night, when twenty-seven members were present. Mr P. Selig, in his presidential address, said that the membership had increased from thirty-one to sixty-two in fifteen years. Referring to the unrest among employees in many departments, he said that the recent linotype award was anything but satisfactory to proprietors. It affected city offices to a considerable extent, while the increa«ses in pay in the country were very considerable, in one case totalling £250 a year. Touching on the demands of journalists through the Institute and Unions, he said he and other propriety ors offered no objection to the Arbitration Act applying, but he was sure that Mr W. P. Reeves, when he framed that measure, never meant it to apply to other than mechanics, and unskilled workers, and he thought that with a few exceptions, journalists are not dissatisfied with the ruling conditions. Women as a rule are the most consistent tea drinkers, and the multiplication of tea rooms and tea kiosks throughout the Dominion affords striking evidence of the increasing popularity of tea. The women of New Zealand may be classed as connoisseurs, as they show a decided preference for x Crescent Tea, which is rich and strong and of delicious flavour. Sold by all grocers at 2s, Is lOd, and Is 8d por iU «