COMMONWEALTH CABLES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume LV, Issue 91, 16 June 1925, Page 8

COMMONWEALTH CABLES

Sydney, June 15. The secretary's report to be presented at the annual meeting of the Country Press Association draws attention to the disabilities under which country newspapers suffer from competition with broadcasting, lit the past the newspaper office lias been the centre from which the rural population obtained its news. Proprietors spent money freely in obtaining such news, but to-day in most centres the local barber is equipped with a receiving set, and is able to post tibia news practically without expense long before the proprietors paying urgent rates for the sam© information receive it by telegraph. Amongst the subjects discuased at the annual meeting will be the provision of a special broadcasting service for the country press. A prop s of this, city newspapers and the pith lip generally are keenly interested in* the wireless transmission of news between West Australia and th. :■'■':-

orn States. At the present tin!;;. trans-continental telegrams tak.> long lime to transmit, a.s do cab!'..-. between London and Sydney. In response to an advertisement for seamen to man the steamers Bromanga and Dilga at Cockatoo Island, a few men have, applied. Hopes are now entertained that the whale ninety required will be forthcoming. Melbourne, June 15.

Developments which occurred during the week-end have changed. The. delaying of the steamer Monaro from being an isolated case of Union interference to one affecting the interests of shipping policy. It is now believed in maritime circles this dispute will lead to a climax in the tangled affairs on the waterfront. The Melbourne Steamship Company has decided to pay off the IVlonaro'.s crew and to tic the vessel up.