A FEDERAL NEWSPAPER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13744, 8 May 1908, Page 6

A FEDERAL NEWSPAPER.

; NOVEL SUGGESTIONS. ' 'There is a good deal of humour in the- ! ' Federal newspaper idea, a? propounded by Mr. Webster, M.H.11. In the House of Re- . ywesentatives on April 29 he put the follow- '.■"• ing question:—" Whether, in view of tho , inadequate,; biassed, and Cunreliable reports .; •and comments by the press in general 1 ou ~ .the 'doings of Parliament, throughout 'Australia, the Government will consider the" ad- : visability of establishing a Commonwealth ■: newspaper, and to that end grant an inquiry : -. , • for lb© purpose of ascertaining (a) the pos- ',' ' • sibility of establishing such newspaper to >> specially convey to the "public an accurate ;- , and lair report of the doings of the people's '"■'_.' Parliaments; -(b) the feasibility of publish- , ing all Acts of Parliament passed from time ;'""'■ ' ,\to time, or a readable synopsis of same, also '-• ' " all Government advertisements ami an- .'•■ nouncements in a more readable form than 'those at present, obtaining in the Goyei;n- ---" ' incnt Gazette; (e) the practicability of securing united action between Stales and Com- ; wealth Governments to utilise said paper i . ; . as (heir advertising medium; also '-to. place , before flic people such matters as said Parliaments may deem advantageous to the ; : public interest,; (d) ; also the publication in , the kmirl newspaper of cablegrams and.tele- ' 'graphic new?, being a statement of fact, re- -.■ lating tor events transpiring within the Cornmonwealth! and Empire -and . the. world in :' ' general winch arc of interest and 'import-; ' ,u '■-, ance to the people of the Common wealth," -As the cable has informed: us the House did . ,■' *not see";its Way clear 'to embark on such a perilous undertaking. ' . !■'-'.. ii.:'-Vr-: > :^---i : :-:: ; : v: v ; iV-"--'>\- :-'--^tv---" : '" =.V ;■'■': : U ~-"- : -'