SUBSIDISED CABLE NEWS
AUSTRALIAN PROPOSAL CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH AID WIDE BE GRANTED. By Telegraph—Preaa Association—Copyright MELBOURNE, Aiigust 17. Tho conditions of the proposed press cable subsidy include fclie transmission, by the association receiving the subsidy, of at least 6UOO words weekly from Europe or America by the Pacific cable, unless it broken down, when transmission may be made by some other route. The proprietor of any newspaper in the Commonwealth is to bo entitled to become a subscriber to the association, receiving news on payment of a fixed rate of subscription, and will not be liable to any penalty or disability for publishing cable matter received through other sources than tho association. The association must transmit and supply its subscribers with any information on matters of Australian interest Buppliod in London by the High Commissioner. The association is to be entitled to charge the Commonwealth Government press rates in respect to matter so transmitted. Rates to subscribers have been fixed at a maximum of JJIOOO annually for papers in Sydney and Melbourne, .£750 for papers in Adelaide and Brisbane, *£soo for papers in Perth, .£3OO for papers in Hobart, .£2OO for papers in the chief provincial cities, and .£SO for papers in minor cities and towns.
Those charges are to be additional to the cost of transmission by the laud lines.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7209, 18 August 1910, Page 5
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221SUBSIDISED CABLE NEWS New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7209, 18 August 1910, Page 5
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