SYDNEY NEWSPAPERS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 March 1921, Page 1

SYDNEY NEWSPAPERS

INT’ER KSTING D EVELOPAIENTS

SVIIN liY, February 22

Although there ar e four prosperous daily newspapers in Sydney, with a host of -other periodicals, some hopeful man or combination of men is always bobbing up with a proposal to break into the dailies' preserves with a new newspaper. News printing paper is still very • dertr, but the present time is very right in newspaper propositions. A new daily u;• s very definitely promised hy the proprietors of ‘‘Smith’s Weekly." and liUmb preliminary organisation was dom'. L is now stated in well informed circles that the : dea has been abandoned for the present. Anothe" report, not so generally credited

yt, mjmlrT of recent events .vivo cilrr to it—is that the ‘‘Smith’s Weekly’' and “Sliinlay Tillies” proprietaries have got together, and that a powerful hew daily is shortly to he leiimdied fiiom Ifte “Sunday Times" efiir-e.

Meanwhile, a local syndicate with sii!all capital, but with high hopes aild good backing, is preparing to bring out a new kind of daily in a few weeks’ tints. This is to lie the ‘‘Daily AlfiM,” and is presented iis a daily newspaper for the North Shore suburbs, the chief purpose of which is to give suburban news. Tin's is poor camouflage. A cable and inter-State news service has been arranged, and the object of the promoters is to publish a morning newspaper for the city at one penny- the c.itv morning papers now cost 2d—which will give all the news of the day in tabloid form. If the morning papers let the ‘-Daily Mail’’ in at Id it may get a hold and make a success of it before anyone realises what fas hapcned. Otherwise, its prospects do not look bright. A staff is now Swing en gaged. A large plant i'll ready to produce n large newspaper, with fine big offices has been standing idle in Pitt street since mil. This was t'o produce the Labour daily. But th 0 war, and then dissensions in the Labour ranks, have p:evrnl.'ed publication ami this great and expensive plant has never been used. Ilou'e'er, the directors have been Elding meetings lately, and it is believed that some move in the direction i [ publication will be made very shortly It is inconceivable tluti that plant will remain idle much longer.