IMPERIAL PRESS CONFERENCE.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 304, 28 June 1909, Page 2

IMPERIAL PRESS CONFERENCE.

Press Assn— By telegraph— Copyright. LONDON, Yesterday. The press dologntos and thoir ladies attended the Marchioness of Lansdownc's King's Birthday reception. . The Conference appointed a stand- ' ing committee and a. deputation, i which urged Mx Asquith to grant a \ general reduction in cable rates. Another resolution advocated the establishment of wireless stations in the east aud south. Another resolution dealt with the grievance of Indian newspapers, whose rates were as high as New Zealand, and in Ceylon it was a halfpenny more. It was announced that the Pacific Board had decided to reduce their proportion by half to 2id, and New Zealand to reduce its proportion by a half-penny, making an immediate reduction in the cost of press fi'om England to New Zealand to 9d. It is expected the Commonwealth will lower the land charge by a halfpenny, which would reduce the Australian press message via Pacific to -id. It is also expected that if the Atlantic Company- and Canadiau land lines make a reduction it will be devoted to lowering the press rate. Marconi has said that he is most confident in the belief that by- August he will be able to transmit 15,000 words dally between Ireland and Canada, and "send press messages across the Atlantic at 2£d, or possibly 2d, against the present sd. He had every hope that his system would embrace the whole Empire. Already there was an installation between Italy and Argentina, and if successful he hoped to instal it from England to the Cape and to Canada.