PRESS CABLEGRAMS
A NEW DEPARTURE. MELBOURNE, May 27. The Federal Government has decided to offer a subsidy of £2OOO a year for three years for a cable service from abroad that will supply a minimum of 1000 words daily. The offer is limited to the existing associations. The conditions have not all been defined, but generally will be on the lines of suggestions made in the Senate Committee's report. The service must be available to all newspapers that comply with the conditions. The control of the service will be left to the newspapers interested, every paper taking the service to have a voice in the management. Messages up to 1000 words per day must be transmitted by the Pacific cable, but no stipulation is made as to the route beyond that number. The Postmaster-general will settle the conditions under which the service is supplied to the papers, but not the terms. The Federal Government has instructed the High Commissioner to support in every possible way the construction of a State-owned Atlantic line.
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Otago Witness, 1 June 1910, Page 31
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172PRESS CABLEGRAMS Otago Witness, 1 June 1910, Page 31
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