NEWSPAPER DISTRIBUTION

Taranaki Daily News, 25 November 1929, Page 9

NEWSPAPER DISTRIBUTION

SIMPLIFICATION IN EUROPE. SUGGESTIONS FOR CONFERENCE. British Wireless. Rugby, Nov. 23. On Monday a conference will meet at Geneva under the presidency of Lord Burnham, the British representative, to discuss methods of developing the circulation '■> of newspapers and periodicals between various countries of Europe. The meeting is the result of a conference of Press experts held by the League of Nations in 1927. One of the resolutions adopted by that conference was that international understanding and promotion of peace can best be encouraged by the widest possible dissemination of news, since public opinion is now more interested in the life of other’ nations than ever before. Among the suggestions put forward arc the. following: Duties and taxes should be abolished, or at any rate unified and reduced to a minimum and customs formalities be simplified; if possible some system should be established by which newspapers could be sent direct from the country of origin to the country of destination, as at present transit agents have to be employed to discharge customs formalities at each frontier and re-forward newspaper parcels, and this leads to considerable ' expense and delay; the fastest expresses should be available for the transport of newspapers, and air liners would run in connection with these trains; aircraft pilots should be allowed to drop parcels of newspapers and periodicals at specified places instead of having to waste time in landing; censorship where it exists should be simple and speedy. ; .'