NEWSPAPERS

Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1929, Page 5

NEWSPAPERS

METHOD TO INCREASE CIRCULATIONS.

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, Nov. 22

On Monday next a conference will meet at Geneva under the presidency of Lord Burnham, the British representative. to discuss methods of developing the circulation of newspapers and periodicals between various countries of Europe. The meeting is the result of a conference of Press experts held by the League of Nations in 1927. One of the resolutions adopted by that conference was: “‘‘That international understanding, and promotion of peace can best be encouraged by the widest possible dissemination of news, since public opinion is now more interested in the life of other nations than ever before.’’

Among the suggestions put forward are the following: Duties and taxes should be abolished, or at any rate unified and reduced to a minimum, and Customs formalities he simplified. If possible, some system should be established by which newspapers could be sent direct from the country of origin to the country of destination. At present transit agents have to be employed to discharge Customs formalities at each frontier, and to reforward newspaper parcels, and this leads to considerable expense and delay. The fastest expresses should be available for the transport of newspapers, and air liners should run in connexion with these trains, Airci aft pilots should be allowed to drop parcels of newspaper and periodicals at specified places, instead of having f* 0 waste time in landing. The censorship, where it exists, should he simple and speedy.