BROADCASTED NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 December 1924, Page 5

BROADCASTED NEWS.

NEWSPAPER TAKES ACTION. hx CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—OOI* ''•RIGHT T SYDNEY, Dec. 1. ' A n , connection with the Daily /telegraph. Newspaper Company’s application to restrain the Broadcasters Company from, broadcasting news allegedly contained in plaintiff's newspapers, when the matter was again called on in the Equity Court counsel for the defendants stated that jn view of the publicity given the matter, the defendant comply wished, to take the earliest ov portunity of stating that if anything had taken place as alleged, the management of the company had no association with it, and the defendants willingly gave an undertaking, but without any admission, not to do any of the things alleged in the statement of claim. Counsel added that some mis-' take had been made, which was probably due to th© carelessness of some new employee,! whose services had since been dispensed with. ,By consent the matter was allowed to stand _ ove r till Wednesday, when the defendants will file affidavits in repiv to the claim.

The Daily Telegraph, made an application to the Equity Court to restrain Broadcasters, Limited, and its servants °r agents from broadcasting or transmitting by wireless to the public any the letterpress contained in plaintiff company’s newspapers and from infnnging the copyright therein. An affidavit m support of the application set out allegedly that various portions of tihe news and information appearing m plaintiff’s newspaper were as being news supphed by the newspaper Daily Guardian that plaintiff had not authorised or consented to defendant’s sending out any news or information of any kind published in its newspapers, and that plaintiff had suffered and would suffer great damage by defendant’s aliened actions.