PRESS GABLE SERVICES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2677, 6 December 1909, Page 5

PRESS GABLE SERVICES.

REPORT OF THE AUSTRALIAN

SENATE COMMISSION

United Puksb Association —Copyright

(Received December 5, 5.5 -p.m.) MELBOURNE, Dec. 5.

The Press Cable Commission’s report has been presented in the Senate. It states that there is only one source of supply for the Commonwealth and New Zealand, and, in that sense, there is a complete monopoly. The service given to the metropolitan papers in exie* sive, but much of it is uninteresting to Australian readers. The commission urges that the position is undesirable, and detrimental to public interests, because it makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for new competing newspapers to obtain a cable service at reasonable rates. The commission recommends the completion of the All-Red route, tlio establishment of a Commonwealth news agency at the High Commisioner’s office in London, the dissemination of news thus collected among papers requiring it in Australia, the establishment of a subsidised Press Cable Association in Australia that will give free entrance to all newspapers with a uniform system of rates, based on population and circulation; the right to select news by country newspapers, the right to use cable, messages from other sources, together with a copyright law for press messages.