Canadian printer & publisher . The proposal was unanimously carried, and Lord Atholstanhanded over the chair to Viscount Burnham, who replied: Your Excellency, Lord Atholstan, ladies and gentlemen :It is with great diffidence but with no less pride that I acceptthis high honor which has truly been thrust upon m?. I feelmyself the chair should have been occupied by the head of theCanadian delegation. However, Lord Atholstan, with hiscustomary modesty, has yielded place to me and I shall domy best to fulfil the duties of the position. All I can sayis that I will endeavor during these proceedings
Canadian printer & publisher . The proposal was unanimously carried, and Lord Atholstanhanded over the chair to Viscount Burnham, who replied: Your Excellency, Lord Atholstan, ladies and gentlemen :It is with great diffidence but with no less pride that I acceptthis high honor which has truly been thrust upon m?. I feelmyself the chair should have been occupied by the head of theCanadian delegation. However, Lord Atholstan, with hiscustomary modesty, has yielded place to me and I shall domy best to fulfil the duties of the position. All I can sayis that I will endeavor during these proceedings to show thatsense of fair play which I honestly believe to be the essentialcharacteristic of the newspaper press of the whole empire. I have the honor to ask His Excellency to open the secondImperial Press Conference. His Excellencys Welcome The Duke of Devonshire said in part: In the first place may I be permitted on behalf of the Govern-ment and people of Canada to extend to this conference a mostcordial and hearty welcome?. Philip Davis is a director ofthe oldest Natal daily paper,the Natal , publishedevery morning and everningat Pietermaritzburg, the pro-vincial capital. Mr. Davis wasborn at Pietermaritzburg in1886, was educated at HiltonCollege, Natal, and LorettoSchool, Edinburgh, and enteredthe business of the firm in1906. The Witness is stronglyImperialistic, its chief object inthat sesnse being to strengthenthe ties between South Africaand the rest of the Empire, andto promote immigration andland settlement. John Philip Collins, since1901, London correspondent ofthe Cape Times and for the pastfive years chief London con-tributor to the Ciril and Mili-tary Gazette (Labor). In thecourse of fifteen years on thePall Mall Gazette, he acted asLeader Writer, Review Editor,and Special 1910 he has devoted him-self to overseas correspondence,cable service, and special com-missions for leading home dail-
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