BROADCAST NEWS
WIRELESS IN MORSE
VALUE TO COUNTRY PRESS (United Press Association.-pCopyright) p . . SYDNEY, 2nd June. _ triving evidence before the Wireless Commission, Mr. Shakespeare, secretary of the Australian Provincial Press Association and New South Wales Country Press Association and other bodies, emphasised the great importance of wireless to the country Press. Ho said that at present the dissemination of iiews was by telegraph and telephone. Occasionally the delivery of telegrams covered a period up to four hours from the tuna of dispatch. One company had offered to carry out' the experimental work of broadcasting news to -the country ,Press over! a period of six months for. £3000. That offer was still under consideration, but it was his impression that transmission would have to be done in Morse code. . In reply to a question by the chairman, the witness said he was opposed to the control of wireless by a Government Department, and, cited the refusal of the Department to grant his executive a broadcasting license as a sample of its administration. Ho added that control in the hands of one man was useless. ■ " QUESTION OF EXPENSE. Continuing, Mr. Shakespeare said his association proposed that they should be given the right, to broadcast news in Morse. Hi 3 association had negotiated with Amalgamated Wireless Limited for the supply of news to the country, from Sydney, and the delivery of it to country newspapers, but admitted that this would entail a great amount of additional expense on Amalgamated Wireless. Ho was entirely opposed to, the views of the city Press regarding 'the publication of Bugby news. In conclusion, Mr. Shakespeare said his association hoped to have a station in operation at Canberra for the broadcasting of news by September. It was a question of the Country Press Association erecting its own station at a cost of £2000 or paying £5000 to Amalgamated Wireless and being done with it. His executive felt that' a wireless station for broadcasting news daily' to every country newspaper in Australiawas becoming a national necessity.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 128, 3 June 1927, Page 7
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337BROADCAST NEWS Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 128, 3 June 1927, Page 7
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