PRESS CONFERENCE

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 188, 10 August 1920, Page 3

PRESS CONFERENCE

JOURNALISTS AT OTTAWA

[Press Association.] (United Service.)

OTTAWA, Aug. 8. At ilie Press Conference a resolution w;i« moved on behalf of tho British delegates affii-ming the necessity for bettor and quicker and i-licaper facilities for diisomiwating news by cable, wireless, and other nictVsrds throughout the Empire, and recommending the Governments of Britain, the Dominions,, and India to :nr:r>:'.-e rrommunications and reduce imtcsi by subsidies to companies.

Mr Dwnaikl, tho mover, read a menn;:;o from t'ne ii]i,;.--:oj'ii Extension Tele'^raoli Company stating that £4..500,C00.v,-,a,ci being expended on new 'able::, and the company did not at prevent in ton d to reduce rates.

]\T.r F.-iii fax, on beha.lf of the Aiu> ralinn delegation, moved a similar i evolu+ion. hut rc-s.trieting Govern■reub aj-si.'stiinoe to tho provision v»i" (henper and inoea^cd cablo communic; it ion.

Mr Denison (Sydney), in seconding lijo motion, stutvu thnt the Anstrniinn «HMV.spi!p;;.rs snent £100,000 tuiniuilly ;" il^t'tvs, vr.hlc- news. He snid thxii Vk> c-nbl.-i companies lind proniif:c<! Surfcher to reduce tboir cliarges when ihoir pro'U.s exc:o>oidtxl £350 000 annually.' They now exceeded £500,000. •wi-.l tlio )<n!nations were overdue. He nrged m.« n. flr.sfc sitep tliw duplication of the Pacific c;i.])lo

Mr Fink (Mt>lhouvno) iirpod tlio nrln{>ti()!i of ixinny-n^\v:<rd ciabloKranis 'tlirowgWa'it tho 15mpiro as tlio Conference's slo.'.r.'-ui.

On Mr D'or.ald's motion the Conforenco :'{ii'iHxl to inefvrpo-rato tho nonny-a-word ide-al in tho resolution, the dl-:-e.nssion on which wns luliourncd.