BROADCASTING OF NEWS
AUSTRALIAN PLANS FOR EXTENSION CANBERRA, June 25. In a draft agreement submitted to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Broadcasting, the Australian Broadcasting Commission proposes to extend it# news sources. The agreement, which requires the approval ot the committee before it can be effected, is with the Australian Newspaper Proprietors’ Association. If the agreement is approved, the Australian Broadcasting Commission will spend about £30,000 more a year than on the present news broadcasts. This would bring the estimated annual f osts „°J the national news broadcasts to £83,000. Extra money would be spent on buying news services and in the appointment of a staff. Overseas news would cost the commission £12,500 a year and home news £7900, which the Commonwealth Prices Commissioner (Professor D. B. Copland) has adjudged as fair payment.
ABANDONED MINES IN SOUTH ISLAND POSSIBLE YIELDS OF • GOLD ... . , LONDON. June 24. ii An e *‘ ensiv e restudy on modern lines would probably reveal profitable mines among the many abandoned gold and other metal areas in the M°r U V 1 New Zeßla nd," said Mr E. O. MacPherson, a geological surveyor, in a paper presented to the ImErldge ® clentl “ c Conference at Cam"In the fields of eoal and gold prospecting mote detailed studies of re’"a»Ped hav? altered mtolSi*/ oglcttl vlewa - increased tne mineral resources, and provided a near approach to new discoveries In future larger scale maps will be used and probably ore bodies and other 5t« wUI be <««=ov«Sl geophysical surveys. nt '^ ew Z ealand is iwginnlng a study toX‘wE^. wi,h a vie * thMS in "me Cr S e a l Mikhailovie and othera accused of crimes began with the calling of 59 witnesses, who are variously testifying !S it J he t 5 oI1 ?^ oratlo n ‘he Chetalks t s ermana or the Italians or both.—-Belgrade, June 24. J’' 8 ' Servteemen—’nie United States Senate haa passed a admitting to America alien nincees of servicemen. The House of Representatives approved the measure by 21 votes to 6—Washington. Juns 24
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24911, 26 June 1946, Page 7
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