NEWS BY RADIO.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18409, 16 June 1925, Page 9

NEWS BY RADIO.

COUNTRY PRESS COMPLAINT,

( 8 y gajile—press- associatiok—eopraiqw.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAJJLB ASSOCIATES.)

SYDNEY, June 15,

Tho secretary's report, to be presented at the annual meeting of tho Country Press Association, draws attention to the disabilities under which country uewspapors. suffer in competition with broadcasting.

In the past the nowspapor office has been the centro from -which the rural population obtained its news. -The proprietors spent money frociy obtaining such news, but to-day -in most centres the local barber is equipped with -a receiving set, and is üblo to poet the news practically without expense long before the proprietors, who pay urgent rates for the same information, receive it by telegraph. Among the subjects discussed at the annual meeting will be the question of a spetial broadcasting service for the country Press. Apropda «j'f this, city newspapers and the public generally are keenly invested in wireless transmission of news between West Australia and the Eastern States. At the present time, trans-con' tinental telegrams take as long a timo to tranjmit ae do cables between London and Sydney.