NEWSPAPER PROPRIETORS' ASSOCIATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 February 1917, Page 5

NEWSPAPER PROPRIETORS' ASSOCIATION.

ENORMOUSLY IN'CREASED •PRODUCTION. , . : PRICE OF PAPERS TO B& BAISED. jt< .. By Telegraph.—Press Association". Wellington, Last Nigitf; v In the course of his presidential ad* cliobs n.t tlio annual conference of ths Sewsnaper Proprietors' Association, lb P. Selig saiil that newspaper owners lifts i grave reason for concern regarding iu«" lure paper supplies. The first shock ol ' the new year was the failure of the inU tial shipment from Powell river, whlclf' Has not now expected till March. Coih tracts were made for 1917 and 1918, anil with freight at buyers' risk, 12 months ago. He referred to the fact that the cost of output of newspapers had gone np hy leaps and bounds, all materials 111 .t enter into the production of lliwßW papers having: continued to increase ia price. The principal offices have had to face au increase in news print paper of nearly* 25 per cent.- as compared Witt pre-war figures. Metal, ink and othtt' • materials, also wages, the cost of the ■■■ mble service and telegrams had Also largely increased. All over the world' fomevvjiat similar conditions prevailed ind they must face here, as elsewhere, ■ the question of raising the selling pries nf papers to the public, so as-to in somei measure recoup these heavy additional 1 expenses in production. After a very full discussion by til# largest meeting of newspaper proprietors held in the Dominion for many yesrs, it was unanimously resolved—That thi» ' pieeting of members of the Nevrepape® < Proprietors' Association of Ifew Zealand is of opinion that, in view of the ejfepi inous increase in the price of now: of material ami of working expenses i& * piatieally.aH departments of newspaper production, the time has arrived when ■' »u increase in the selling price of NeW| ' /I"aUuid newspapers can no longer ho ivoided, such change to come into forca * on April 2. ■ i) PROVINCIAL PROPRIETORS' MEET. ING. Wellington, Last Night., ihe annual meeting of the provincial section of the 'Newspaper Proprietors' Association was held to-night, Mr. V. "Irani presiding. Various matters of '' interest to provincial newspapers wore discussed. The standing committee was re-elected as follows:—Mr. F. Pirani (chairman), Messrs W. C. Weston (Taraiiaki Herald), 11. Duigan (Wanganul Chronicle), C. Walker (Hawera StarJ, '•('presenting the North Island; P. Bond 'Nelson Colonist), R. Bell (Ashburton R. J. Oilmour (Southland I'imes), A. McNieol (Dannevirke News), '<oll. secretary.