PRESS CABLE RATES

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21409, 27 February 1935, Page 11

PRESS CABLE RATES

A COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS REDUCTION N.Z. AND AUSTRALIAN DELEGATES APPOINTED (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.) (Received February 26, 5.5 p.m.) . JOHANNESBURG, February 25. Arising out of a resolution passed at Cape Town that a committee should proceed to, London and endeavour to bring about a prompt review of press cable and wireless rates, and to urge the utilisation of the surplus capacity of the present Empire telegraph communications by a low deferred rate of a penny a word, the Empire Press Conference to-day appointed the committee. It includes Mr George Kerr (New Zealand) and Messrs D. McCay and F. L. Dumas (Australia). Consideration is being given to the question of the inclusion within the scope of the cable of rated picturegrams. After a lively discussion the conference adopted a resolution inviting the attention of the Empire Press Union to the increasing efforts that are being made to exploit the literary columns of* newspapers by means of disguised advertising. In the interests both of the public and of the Press the conference called upon newspaper executives to exercise a rigid scrutiny in order to ascertain the underlying purpose of matter received for publication. The conference further decided that, in order to maintain an effective continuity in the Empire Press Union's activities during the fiveyear interval between conferences, there should be annual meetings of a committee of members of the Union, selected annually. The following basis was proposed:—Selected fromTßritain, including Northern Ireland, six members; selected from the Australian, New Zealand, Canadian, African and Indian sections, two each; selected from any other Dominion where a section of the Union exists, two members; £rom members in other parts of the Empire, one each.