THE CABLE SERVICE.

Press, Volume V, Issue 13598, 6 December 1909, Page 7

THE CABLE SERVICE.

FEDERAL COMMITTEE'S PROPOSAL.

United Pz_* Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright, (Received —"-©ember sth, 5.5 p.m.) -___LBOUBNE, December 4. The Press Cable Committee's report, presented to Senate, states there is only one source of news supply for the Commonwealth and New Zealand, and in that sense there is a complete monopoly. The service given to the metropolitan papers is extensive, but much of it is uninteresting to Australian Teaders.

The committee urges that the present position is undesirable and is detrimental to the public interest because it makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible; for new competing newspapers to obtain a cable service at reasonable rates.

It recommends the completion of the All-Red route, and the establishment of a CVunmonwealth news agency at the High Commissioner's office, London, and the dissemination of news thus collected among the papers requiring it in Australia, the establishment of a subsidised Press Cable Association in Australia that will give free entrance to all newspapers, with a uniform system of rates based on population and circulation, the right to select news published by country newspapers, and the right to use cable messages from other sources, together with a copyright law for Press messages.