PRESS NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 94, 14 January 1908, Page 6

PRESS NEWS.

•A COMPLAINT; FROM CANADA., : ■' In a recent : spc€ch the. Premier complained that; Neiy., Zealand,;npws,js ;^notiVl §ufppiently ; , .cjrcnlated . at 'Hoine:'''' Arc6ffip]a'iut'"'l)ear]ng' similarly '.in: Regard .'t-6 ■ Canada: has., been 'received, by- 1 the- Premier; from the Board of : 'Trade, Victoria,'. British- foluinbia. . tions/passed I ' by the' Board of. Trade'-'arei -familiar.: Inter alia, they aro as follow:— '. ;; -Whereas, British' and Continental news'- ■ , comes,via York, - and receives a distasteful.' repugnant.to','. British people: 'And' whereas, the- events ' of Canada.aro given .little attention,-and. . tho people of Canada thus kept' in .igndr- - '■ , arioo, of, the affairs:■ and; events ; of' their.'- ; .own country': And whereas,-.'tliofacts- '•"' ab'bVb' : statefl - militate-.'strmgly .' the development of a' Canadian-national pride- arid" ( ''sentiment';cementing ..of.-the ; bonds', of union with the MotbeHand : :''A'nd' ; Whe'reas't-lio ques- - tion . is,'.one; affecting :the'-, whole people . of, Canada as much as Mt, docs, the Press of thb'couiltry':—- 1 ■'■'? : J l '- v .'. ; Be;, it-resolved that-'the/Fedefal Gov.ernnieut ~bo memprialised-V.fo'. take .-.into- ' 'consideration tthe .'advisability of-assiist- , ing in the establishmentlof-'a'-telegrapliio : service, primarily Canadian'-incharacter, , J .but embracing the.news of tho Mother-; '■ land, and of other British.,possessions,' , , .'as' well as of tho United State's...- . ".Be;it.further resolved,'-'tliatvin dealing- ,; with this question, ' the;-'lnderal. Gov- ' ernment be:.'asked: to .consider aid in ' tho 'following forms ' .'. . (aj A cash- subsidyVpnra : sliding- scale,- ' ■ for'a term of years, v to-iari association •of. .Canadian newspajs!re;'''aldng somewhat similar lines 'iS- fsrce for. -several' years. and how. " Expiring with ; the-Canadian -Associated Press. (b) Placing at . the'disposal of.: such:'?, an. association .the. Yul>on-;telpgraplr line,: ■ when not ; iioss, for the free transmission of press':news between the' older-portions of Canada' and 1 the l^kouVTerHiory.;''v.; * . (c) 'A similar arrangement' .with', regard . • to:- the •other 'telegraph; and"- telephone -. lines of the'Governrngntj. as the, ; ; . use "of. the.news collected -at' tho'.wireless •station-_'of; the' r'Depaftineii't -'bf Marine :•« and Fisheries.' ■ v , '' i '•'.(d): An'.:arrangomeht-■"ivith-, the; other 'V . Government's •'concerned iii ' and : .'respoii- 't sible,.for the. deficit, on .the..Pacific'cable, .whereby: that lino 'may .bo ' uscd .at .cer---'• taiii periods of' the day, w,heii-commer- ' cial business does not offer, For the free ! transmission .of press despatches-between '■ the Dominion of-Canada'arid the. Coro : monwealth of. Australia arid' tho Do*- , minion of Now Zealand; ' : " " ■ These resolutions are >ent. viith. the. request. | that- tho importance of the -subject will: ■ensure ■ its earbr consideration, and ' that active support will ( be given' : to a plan, having for its object the establishment- of an independent press agency/..without' delay.