EMPIRE PRESS UNION

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 138, 6 March 1920, Page 7

EMPIRE PRESS UNION

ANNUAL MEETING OV AUSTKAJMAN" SECTION. . . . Sydney, March (>■ The Empire Press Union report shotted that owing to the congestion ot' other, cables the Pacific c:i )ls, during 1910, carried 81 million words. . Willi regard ,10. tho enormous increase in' lite price of nows-print paper it was slated that many newspapers were compelled lo 'increase their price?, and it was foreshadowed that, others would find it impossible ..lo continue long at tho present prites. An invitation !.was;> received by the union to enrol itself in the' Australian section of the'World's'Press Congress, to be held in Svdnovin Optober. It was decided not fa enrol as all-organisation. but members were' left free to take individual action. Mr. G. E. Fairfax was elected chairman. —Press Assn. BETTER CABLE SER.VICE WANTED, -r. ' Sydney, March' 5. • The.annual -meeting of the Australian section of the Empire Press Union carried a .resolution urging the duplication of the 'Pacific, cable and the establishment of'a wireless service either bv the ftovernni&t or ]).v private enterprise.— Press Assii.' ■ ■ ;