BROADCASTING NEWS
EFFECT ON COUNTRY NEWSPAPERS (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, This Day. The secretary's report to he presented at the annual meeting of the Country Press Association draws attention to the disabilities under which country newspapers suffer in competition with broadcasting. in the past the newspaper office has been the centre from which the rural population obtained its news. The proprietors spent money freely in obtaining such news, hut today in most centres the local harbor is equipped with a receiving set and is able to post news practically without expense long before newspaper proprietors paying urgent rates for the same information receive it hv telegraph. Amongst the subjects to he discussed at, the annual meeting will he the provision of a special broadcasting service for country press. Apropos of this city newspapers and the public generally are keenly interested in the wireless transmission of news betwe.en West Australia- and the Eastern States. At the present time transcontinental telegrams take a long time to transmit, as do cables between London and Svdnev.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 15 June 1925, Page 5
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