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HOW IT IS RECEIVED. WORK OF CABLE SYSTEM. The system by which New Zealand is kept supplied with the latest news from overseas was interestingly explain! by Mr R. J. Gilmour, of Invercargill; one of the delegates to tlio annual conference of the Newspapers Proprietors’ Association which has been sitting in Auckland last week. The delegates were guests of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon in Milne and Chovce s Reception Hall. . Mr Gilmour recalled that before the flaying of the cable between Australia anil: New Zea land- in 1871 L the newsapeasLofflNew‘Zealand were 1 dependent ior'inews from everseas on information brought by ships. As long ago as. 1869 the Government of the day, under Sir Julius Vogel, realised the value of a reliable news service, and established in Melbourne an agency, from which a budget of news prepared from the cables appearing in the Australian papers was dispatched to New Zealand and distributed to the newspapers. This, however, was discontinued later, on the ground of expense, and it was then that owners of the newspapers in Now Zealand decided to establish their own services. For a time there were two groups operating, but it was found that the ' cost of these competitive services was becoming ruinous, and three years- after the opening of the Tasman cable they combined. Prom that time the service known as the United Press Association had been carried on. without interruption -
The first thing the combined organisation did was to obtain the right to use in New Zealand the cable services which the Principal Australian newspapers had set up lor their own use, and to-day the main source ol supply rtf' the cabled news published in New Zealand was the cable services of the principal Australian newspapers. Since 1887 the New Zealand Press Association had maintained its own office and staff in Australia, and from this centre was sent news which was regarded as being of interest to New Zealand. Readers in tile Dominion had an advantage over those in Australia. because in Australia there were several groups of papers gathering cable news, and while one service might be used by morning papers and another by evening publications, th,. New Zealand papers had the benefit of all services. For that reason there was no Pi-ess in the world that bad a British and foreign cables service equal to that enjoyed by New Zealand.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 February 1932, Page 6
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