The Press Association.
AND THE HASTINGS STANDARD. [By Telegkaph] [Special to Standard.] Wellington, This day. According to the Premier the reason that Government has for moving for a Committee of Enquiry concerning the way the Press Association conducts its business is that the Chairman of the Association, who is a newspaper proprietor in Napier, demanded £SOO entrance fee from the Hastings Standard in the hope of preventing its publication. He stated that bills endorsed by men of sound financial position were refused, and that the Associations' Chairman demanded his pound of flesh in the way of cash. One Ministerial supporter declared that the Association had accepted £3OO from the proprietors of the Hastings paper, who had been unable to get either telegrams from the Association on a refund of the deposit. Captain Russell said he was disinclined to believe the assertion made, but as he was visiting Hastings on the following night he would inquire what truth was contained in it, as by accepting Mr Collins' Amendment the scope of the Committee's enquiry was limited to the copyright question, and the object of those instigating the matter was not likely to be attained.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 95, 15 August 1896, Page 2
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193The Press Association. Hastings Standard, Issue 95, 15 August 1896, Page 2
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