WIRELESS BROADCASTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 123, 25 May 1923, Page 5

WIRELESS BROADCASTING.

RIGHTS OP NEWSPAPERS. SCHEME IN AUSTRALIA. (Received 2 p.m.> MELBOURNE, this day. A conference of representatives of companies and organisations interested in wireless broadcasting, convened by Mr. \\". (1. Gibson, Postmaster-General, was opened to-day. Mr. Gibson said that broadcasting should prove a valuable asset to the community, but unless it were properly organised and conducted it might result in chaos.. He hoped the conference would evolve a scheme and suggest regulations agreeable to all parties. Mr. Holtz, general manager of the "Argus" newspaper, said that newspapers and news distributing agencies were gravely concerned in the proposals. News distribution and the collection and preparation of news involved great expense, and when made public should not become the property of a broadcasting company to incorporate in its service. Xo objection would be made to supplying news for broadcasting on a proper business basis. The conference agreed to affirm the principle of establishing decentralised broadcasting services, and giving authority to independent companies to undertake those services on a commercial basis. A committee was appointed to draft regulations. Tbe conference to-morrow will consider a scheme submitted by Mr. Fisk, managing director of Amalgamated Wireless, Ltd.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)