COMPETITION IN CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2722, 29 January 1910, Page 5

COMPETITION IN CABLES.

A SYDNEY PROJECT

ITeii Press Association.! DUNEDIN, Jan % 28. News lias been received from Sydney that some of the proprietors of the Australasian provincial press, having at their head Mr. Thos. Temperley, one of the Australian members of the Imperial Press Conference, have initiated an independent press cable service for transmission of news by the Pacific route., It is understood that the combination will be registered as a company, with a capital of £IO,OOO. The company proposes establishing t/wo offices, one in Vancouver to collect Imperial, European, and American items, and another in London to handle Parliamentary and Australian news. Mr. W. E. Vincent, of Glen Innes ,a member of the Executive of the Australian Provincial Press, left by the Makura on January 17th, to take charge of the Vancouver office, and will commence the service from there on February 14. Mr. McMillan leaves Sydney on March 23 for London to organise the London office for transmission of purely Australian items. All other news will be collected and despatched from Vancouver. The Canadaian Pacific Association has been asked to attend to Australian items until Mr. McMillan arrives in Loudon. The service will consist of 48,000 words per -week, and arrangements have 'been made with the various papers to supply that average. The new association will endeavor to supply some of the New Zealand newspapers, but the field in this Dominion will necessarily be very restricted, on account of agreements that are in existence, to which all the principal papers in New Zealand are parties, and by which they receive their news from different sources.