The Press Cable Service.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XVI, Issue 8, 1 February 1926, Page 4

The Press Cable Service.

In the course of a sermon at St. Barnabas', Ithaca, recently, Canon Garland said that he hoped, as a result of the Empire Press Conference, there would be a distinct improvement m the standard of information that was cabled to Australia. He was glad to see that the President of the Queensland Press Institute, Mr 0. E. Sligo, had complained of the froth that came over the cables, and an experienced journalist on the "Courier" had assured him that the "Coijrier" frequently consigned to the wastepaper basket a lot, of the cable messages for which, roughly, 9d a word was paid for transmission charges. The different cable services to the Australian Press cost somewhere about £100,000 a year, so surely if it was worth receiving news that really mattered, instead of paying 9d a word for a description of a youthful criminal's white face and childlike wonder as he stood up for sentence m an English dock, or an escaped criminal's adventures on a roof. He emphasised that he was not blaming the local newspapers or the Australian Press, but he thought it

was "time * that f a -better selection .of news was made m London, news that would give a truer impression of the doings and sayings m the Motherland, and men entrusted with that great duty should be Australian and British journalists of wide training, capable of understanding and appreciating the ramifications of Imperial and international affairs. ''■'■".