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Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1927, Page 3

WIRELESS EXQI'IUY. SVI>XEY, May 27. (living evidence before the Royal Commission on \\ ireless, Campbell Jo nos, managing director of '‘Tim Sun” newspaper, said lie did not intend in any way to challenge the principle that broadcasting should he conducted under Government control. However, broadcasting should he handed by private enterprise under Government control. The official mind could not possess that flair for public taste which was imperative. Exiwrienoe had shown that Government management was arbitrary and apt to become enmeshed in red tape regulations. He declared there was no privacy .under beam wireless. Anyone could listen and pick up what .passed. The newspapers of Australia had had to look to cable groups for overseas news. Only by perfect organisation had they been able to obtain a complete story of foreign news which made the average Australian the best informed person in the Empire. Two of the principal agencies, I nitod f*ervice and Australian Press Association, with other agencies spent £150.000 to £2"0.000 annually for external news. It was unthinkable that any Government, or Government-owned station should exploit these sources of news without payment and make the news available in Australia to the severe injury of the newspapers concerned. Rugby was employed as a Eritish propaganda. station, and lifted its news from the same source as Australian cable organisations Roth had to pay and the Australian Cable Coy. were entitled to freedom from competition which could only he created by ignoring the decencies of contractual obiigat ions. Consideration should be given to the imminent danger of pernicious foreign manufactured polities and economies being transmitted lo Australia by the propaganda of foreign countries. In replv to a question. Mr Jones said even if beam wireless absorbed the present traffic it woidd still he necessary to maintain one or two companies. By a regenerative process, cable messages arrived in nnieTi quicker time than beam, which at present was absolutely in the trial stage. Statements wore made by other witnesses that the beam had been heard in America and that the beam had had to seek assistance of cable companies.

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