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Hokitika Guardian, 13 November 1925, Page 4

NEWS BV All?. SYDNEY'. X'ov. .}. Country licit - paper- have their trouble-. :iii<l 1 1 k- d- veh pinout of wireha.- net served to los-ou them. As in many country eetiirc- in All ~tr:i lia the local payers do not come out more than twice a week, their “news'’ is often, strictly speaking, not news, since pconle with sufficiently strong sets can get on the air. all the latest information broadcast from Sydney. The enterprising local harbor and tobacconist, for instance, can quite easily make his establishment a recognised centre of news hv getting it on the air and posting the information in his shop window, to the sore distress and anger of the local newspaper proprietor. Even if the tobacconist is prevented by law from tints snatching tie news from the air and putting it in his window, the local newspaper is at a disadvantage in a small place, for once it is broadcast, nothing can ston the local inhabitants from passing it front mouth to month. Not unmindful of the position, the New South 'Wales Country Press Association has now under consideration the question of trying to establish its own broadcasting station. to circulate news rapidly and in comprehensive form. It is an undeniable fact that wireless is te-clny handicapping rather than assisting the country* newspaper proprietor, especially where he is operating only in a small way. I