THE CABLE INQUIRY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12386, 6 December 1909, Page 5

THE CABLE INQUIRY.

(Uivltsd Press Association —Copyright.) I MELBOURNE, December 5. Tho Press Cable Committee's report has been presented to the Senate. It states that there is only one source of supply for the Commonwealth and j New Zealand, and in that senso there' is «°. complete monopoly. The service j given to the metropolitan papers is extensive, hv.'c much of it is uninteresting to Australian readers. j The Committee urges that this posi-; tion is undesirable and detrimental to j public interests, because it makes it px- ; tremsly difficult, if not impossible, for, ir>w competing newspapers to obtain a! cablo service at reasonable rates. It' recommends tha completion of the All Reel routs, the establishment c-f a Commonwealth News Agency at the High Gripmissioner's office in London, tiie dis-siiiination of the news thus coller-ted f.inm.9; tlio papers requiring it in Australia,' the establishment of a subsidised ! Press Cablo Association in Australia that would /live free entrance to all newspapers, with a- uniform system of rate.s baser 1, on population and circulation, tha right to select news by country nawsna'pers. tho right to vse cablo lresrages from other sources, together v.ith copvriulit law for Press messages.