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dominion, may participate. Australian country ■pafeu.?' :.-. ■ -...- SCHEME. ■;■■ ■ PBEBB ASSOCIATION. DUNEDIN, »January 27. News has been received from iSydney thast . some, of.:'.the. ..proprietors .''of t'lie Australasian provincial press, having at their head Mr- Thomas Temperley, one ot the Australian members of the Imperial Press Conference, have ::initiated an jndeiJCndout press cable service for the transmission of news by, the Pacific cable .route: , It is understood that the combination will bo registered as a company with a capital -,of MO,UVO. The company, propftci establishing: two offices, one ..■-.)i Vancouver, to collect imperial, European amd American items, ami iuiothel- in J,oivdori to handle purely Australasian mews-. Mr W. E. Vincent, of the Glen Junes "Examiner," a member of the executive of .■ tie-Australasian Provincial I'reiss Association, left .by" the Makura- on July 17th to take 1 charsu of the Vancouver office, and will commence the service from there on February 14th. Mr R: • MeMilla.u leaves Syd a ey on March S3rd for Ix>ndon to organise 'the lyondon cmco for transmission of purely Anstratai'aai ite'DM. All othor news will be oollocted and diispatehod from Vancouver. The Canadian Pacific Association has been asked to attend to Australasian items' until Mr: McMillan arrives : m London. : The Hsrvice will consist of 4800 words per week, and arrangements have been made -with various papers to supply that average. ■■, ■". '■ ■' ~ : - The new association .will endeavour .o supply some of the Nov Zealand. newspapers, but tin? field in this Dominion will necessarily be very restricted on account of agreements that are in existence'to which' all the pralnoipal newspapers in New Zealand are parties, and by which they receive their news from different sources.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7038, 28 January 1910, Page 1
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