WIRELESS NEWS
COMPLAINTS OF INACCURACY. An official statement says:—“The system adopted in connection with the broadcasting of Press items to ships in the Southern Pacific is for all New Zealand news to be dispatohed from Sydney. The news is sent under arrangement with the Australian Press Association, and no New Zealand news is sent direct from the Dominion. The result is that sometimes mistakes are liable to occur to the disadvantage of New Zealand. “For instance, when the Tahiti, with the Prime Minister of New Zealand aboard left Wellington, the Wellington papers that day had commented on the fact that the influenza epidemic was dying out, but after two days at sea (on August 31st) an item appearing to the uninitiated as coming from Wellington, was published in the, ship’s ‘Wireless News’ as follows: ‘Wellington—Pneumonic influenza cases last week numbered 6ixty, and deaths twenty-eight.’ The source of information was reported to be the Sydney ‘Morning Herald.* ”
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11648, 12 October 1923, Page 4
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156WIRELESS NEWS New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11648, 12 October 1923, Page 4
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