AUSTRALIAN PRESS CABLES,
THE SENATE ENQUIRY. COUNTRY PAPERS AND THE ♦ ASSOCIATION. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received November 17, 10.50 a.m.) , MELBOURNE, This I ' Day. j -A-k a sitting^ of the Senate Committee of Enquiry into the subject of press cable messages, Mr. Mahon, a member of the House of Representatives, and at one time owner of the Menzies Miner, a West Australian paper, denied a statement by Senator Best implying that he pirated cables. He received a selection in return for supplying West Australian papers with local news. The Cable Association fixed the contribution at £150 a year for a little town like Menzies, while Bendigo paid only £200. The Cable Association was, the witness asserted, the worst monopoly in Australia. • At present other newspapers had no chance to combine, as no two agreements terminated on the same date. Mr. Reay, manager of the Melbourne Herald, declined to state what he paid for the servico If another evening paper in Melbourne got the same service, his advice would be to terminate the arrangement and get an independent service. Senator Dobson said the Argus and the Age are separate concerns, yet they take the same service. Witness said that was their policy, but he did not agree with it.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 120, 17 November 1909, Page 7
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209AUSTRALIAN PRESS CABLES, Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 120, 17 November 1909, Page 7
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