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The Review of Reviews. 



October 1, 1906. 



Mr. J. C. Leslie, I 



First Preaident of the N.S.W. Country Press Association, 



190U-1901. 



he took over the Richmund River Times (Ballina), 

 and, by the vigour and .versatilitv of his views, the 

 talent he exhibited in press work, backed up by 

 pluck and business ability, he succteded in making 

 his newspaper property one of the most prosperous 

 and influential in the rich North Coast districts. 

 Mr. Temperley, who is a born fighter and a tireless 

 worker, was one of the first to recognise the neces- 

 sitv for unity and co-operation among country news- 

 paper proprietors, and to his energy, spirit, and en- 

 couragement much of the success of the movement 

 is due. Bluff, hale, hearty and genial, he is a no- 

 table personality at Press Conferences, and his elec- 

 tion as President is evidence of the esteem and re- 

 gard in which he is held by his confreres. It 

 should be mentioned that Mr. Temperley is a keen 

 politician, who just missed the representation of his 

 district by 42 votes, with two other candidates in a 

 similar interest scoring votes which would other- 

 wise have gone to him. He was the first to pro- 

 pound the present excise on sugar, with a rebate or 

 bonus on the white-groWn product. He addressed 

 many meetings in support of this principle for four 

 or five vears before it was favoured and finally 

 adopted bv the Commonwealth. It was a signal 

 victory for Mr. Temperley 's perspicacity and persis- 

 tency. 



-MR. GF.ORGK ^VRIDE. 

 first Secretary of the X.S.\V. Countrv Press .Asso- 

 ciation, started life as a printer's devil, and has been 



M. Shakespeare. 



Secretary of the N.S-W. Country Press Association, and 

 Manager of the N.S.W. Country Press Co-operative Co. 

 Ltd. 



in touch with newspapers ever since. He now 

 handles the advertising columns of the Australian 

 Press, and is, perhaps, one of the best-known news- 

 paper men in Australasia. 



MR. J. C. LESLIE. 

 One of the most progressive and enterprising of 

 editor-proprietors is Mr. J. C. Leslie, of the Corowa 

 Free Press. It was owing to Mr. Leslie's advice, 

 grounded on the experience he had of the good 

 results of co-operative country press organisation in 

 Victoria, that the movement in N.S.W. took definite 

 shape, and achieved a striking success under the 

 present system. At great sacrifice of time and 

 labour he threw" himself heartily into the inaugura- 

 tion of the scheme, and the Countr\' Press owes him 

 a debt of gratitude. Mr. Leslie says of his work 

 and his responsibilities as first President: — "The 

 little I did could have been done by anybody. " The 

 fact is that his advice and co-oi)eration were indis- 

 pensable, and that his aid was invaluable. From 

 i86r Mr. Leslie has been associated with journalism. 

 His first years were between Melbourne and Wanga- 

 nui (N.Z.) offices. In r875 he struck out on his 

 own, and established the Corowa Free Press — one 

 of the finest provincial prop)erties in the Common- 

 wealth. On the Free Press he has since remained, 

 conducting it according to the best traditions of 

 journalism. Mr. Leslie is of the alert, enterprising, 

 public-spirited type of newspaper proprietor, and 



