PRESS CABLE SERVICE.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12805, 28 May 1910, Page 2

PRESS CABLE SERVICE.

A COaLMONWEALTH SUBSIDY. [Press Association — Copyright.] (Received aiay 27, 10.15" p.m.) Melbourne, aiay 27. The Federal Government has decided to offer a subsidy of £2000 a year for three yoars for a cable service from abroad that will supply a minimum of a thousand words daily, limited to existing associations. The conditions have not all been defined, but they will generally be on tha lines of tbo 'suggestions made by the Senate Committee's report, Th e service must he available to all newspapers that comply with the condition.-;. The control of the service will be left to the newspapers interested, every paper taking the. service to have a voice in the management. aiessages up to a thousand words por day must be transmitted by the Pacific Cable, but no stipulation is made as to the route beyond that number. The Postmaster-General will snttle the conditions under which the r.ervice will be supplied to papers, but not the terms. - The Federal Government has instructed the High Commissioner to support in every possible way the construction of a Stato-owned Atlantic line.