N.Z. PRESS CONFERENCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 588, 14 February 1929, Page 6

N.Z. PRESS CONFERENCE

AT ROTORUA NEXT WEEK WIRELESS AND NEWSPAPERS Important Press conferences will be held in Rotorua next week. The United Press Association will meet on Wednesday under the chairmanship of Mr. A. G. Henderson, and the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association’s annual meeting, which will be presided over by Mr. C. W. Earle, will be held on Thursday. The New Zealand section of the Empire Press Union will also meet on Wednesday. The various committees are expected to arrive in Rotorua to-morrow to make preliminary arrangements. The Advertising Committee will meet on Saturday and on Monday meetings of the Parliamentary, Labour, Paper and general committees will be held. Tuesday will be devoted to section meetings in preparation for the annual meetings on Wednesday and Thursday. The meeting of the Empire Press Union on Wednesday will be presided over by Sir George Fenwick. The annual report to be presented outlines the formation of the union which, it is stated, was the outcome of the Imperial Press Conference held in London in 1909, and deals with the progress of its efforts to promote the welfare of the newspaper Press throughout the Empire. Reference is made to the great progress made by wireless and the reliability of this now well-established form of telegraphy is instanced in the messages from the Byrd Antarctic expedition, which have been received in New York and thence dispatched to all parts of the world. WIRELESS IN NEW ZEALAND As far as the New Zealand Press is concerned, continues the report, it cannot be said that wireless has yet played a very important part in the receipt of news it publishes from day to day, although several members have installed receiving sets, the value of which has keen shown to some extent in the receipt of items of news from abroad as well as from within the Dominion. It cannot, however, be doubted that the day is not far distant when wireless receiving equipments in the offices of the Dominion’s principal newspapers will play their part in the regular receipt of news. At present, through departmental restrictions, the Dominion compares very unfavourably with other parts of the world—Canada, Australia and the United States, for example—in the facilities afforded for the use of wireless by the Press. It is expected that between 50 and 60 delegates from all parts of New Zealand will attend the meetings.