PRESS NEWS BY WIRELESS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 19 December 1925, Page 9

PRESS NEWS BY WIRELESS.

Not Permissible Through

Rugby.

SUCCESS OF INITIAL EXPERIMENTS.

By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.

(Received December 18, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, December 17.

AVhile the Rugby experiments wera most successful in picking up Australia, as well as other distant centres, it is not intended that newspaper messages shall ever be transmitted therefrom. Rugby will bo used exclusively for Government purposes. The transmission of press messages will not come until the completion of the beam stations. SMALLER STATIONS OUT OF TUNE. PROPOSED BROADCASTING ARRANGEMENTS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received December 18, 8.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, December 18. In connection with the Rugby wireless messages, on account of the high wave length, few amateurs are able to pick up. The more powerful stations report that although static interferes considerably, the reception of the messages is satisfactory. Arrangements are being made by the broadcasting station 2 FC to pick up messages, and distribute them in plain language, commencing on Monday next, at 11.5 in the morning (Sydney time).

ATTITUDE OF NEWSPAPERS. LORD RIDDELL’S CRITICISM. By Cable —Prase Association —Copyright. Sydney ” Sun ” Service. (Received December 18, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, December 17. Giving evidence before the broadcasting inquiry, Lord Riddell, on behalf of the newspaper proprietors throughout Britain, criticised the proposal to increase the broadcasting of news. He pointed out that racing and betting would be objectionable .to a large section of the community, lawcases were unsuitable for the family circle,. political propaganda was only allowable on special occasions. He denied that the newspaper proprietors were unreasonable monopolists, but broadcasting news might curtail circulations, causing disastrous results by rendering idle thousands of workers. The newspapers at present, apart from plant and buildings, spent £62,000,000 annually on production, including £5,000,000 on the collection of news, for which broadcasting companies were using agency reports.