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THE NEWSPAPER AT SEA. It is not long since a humorist told the world that British people live on stews and news. It is not true, of course, but there is an element of truth in it—and there is no denying that the British public as a whole would probably languish more without news than without food. Take away bur newspapers, and we should be lost. It is true even when we arc at soa; and to day, during normal times, so hungry is the world that' passengers on board our larger liners expect to have their newspaper on the breakfast table.
The great Atlantic liners from the Queen Mary downwards all publish a newspaper—and if only we stop to think about it the wonder of it must impress us—that people midway between Europe and America can pick up the paper, reading in comfort what happened at the other side of the world an hour or two before. With wireless it is a simple matter for the liner to gather news; and with linotypes and printers and great machines capable of handling thousands of copies an hour, each liner is a floating printing works, and papers are published on board regularly.—(L).
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 27, 30 December 1939, Page 2
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