CONFERENCE OF JOURNALISTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 135, 16 September 1910, Page 5

CONFERENCE OF JOURNALISTS

SIR GEORGE REID. SOME ADVICE. By Cable.—Preas.Association.—Copyright London, September 14. Mr. Harry Lawson, M;P., presided at the banquet in connection with the Journalists' Conference. The attendance of three hundred and fifty included Lord Strathcona, Sir Gilbert Parker, Sir William Hall-Jones, and many Australian, Canadian ami British journalists. Sir George Reid, proposing, the toast of the evening] declared, that the Australian press was worthy of the highest traditions of j the British press. He humorously suggested that the time was coming, when,, every newspaper would strive to' present both' sides of every question for the public good'. He wondered when this mighty press would condescend tf devote half a column daily to the; great mass of the rising generation in; order to lead youth along the noble piths of the great future awaiting them. CHEAP CABLES. ; London, September 14. The Journalists' Conference adopted Mr. McMillan's resolution that the time had arrived 1 for binding the Empire together bj; cheap cables. Mr. Henniker Heaton suggested a conference of European postmasters to discuss a penny a word . rate for all telegrams.