A VALUABLE SERVICE
A London message informed us on Tuesday of the unprecedented preparations that had been made for the reporting of the great event to be decided on that day. Plans for announcing the results on election night aro moro complete than ever. The 8.8.C. is broadcasting till tho small hours on Wednesday, and many largo cinemas in London and sub urbs aro keeping open similarly at reduced prices, interspersing pictures with election figures. Nothing was said in that message of the arrangements made for the reporting of the election overseas, but, so far as this part of the world is concerned, we arc now able to judge them for ourselves, and the Press Association is to be very heartily congratulated on the result. Never has a British General Election been so fully reported at the Antipodes; never has one been so well reported; and never was the report more welcome. Not only have the complete details of the polling in every constituency been supplied with the names and political colours of the candidates, but we have also had a vivid running commentary in which striking incidents in the polling, the reception of the news by the Press, the public, and the politicians themselves, and the humours of die fray have been excellently represented. After filling five of our columns on Wednesday these reports covered the whole of yesterday's cable page and more than three columns of the following page. Yet it may safely be said that no part of the paper, and certainly not that in which' the proceedings of our own Parliament were reported, was more eagerly scanned. It was one of the greatest Imperial events of our time that/ was taking place in Britain on Tuesday, and the cable correspondent correctly gauged its importance in the eyes of what is still, despite recent backslidings, an Imperiallyminded country. Before the complaint is repeated of the space allotted to a Test match or the latest feat in airmanship this generous treatment of a really great event should be borne in mind.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 105, 30 October 1931, Page 6
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343A VALUABLE SERVICE Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 105, 30 October 1931, Page 6
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