Telegraphic News.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8140, 2 June 1906, Page 3

Telegraphic News.

Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 1. Commenting on the Premier's remarks about the Press Association, the Auckland Star says the return referred to by the Premier simply showed the difference between the Press rates for telegrams and the ordinary rates. A large proportion of telegrams were "own correspondent's" wires and in _ every case the telegrams were paid for by the papers receiving them, not by the Press Association. The Press Association received no rights or concessions of any kind from the Government that are not equally open to every newspaper in the colony. The large reduction in press rates as compared with the ordinary rates is made in every part of the world, even where the wires are privately owned. So far from the Press Association receiving special concessions from the Government, its existence effects a very large saving to the Telegraph Department. Without such an Association it would be impossible for the present telegraph staff to do the work inasmuch as every message sent by the Association is duplicated by a very large number of papers, the effect is for example that every message sent from Auckland by the Press Association to the evening papers is paid for thirty times over, whereas but for the existence of the Association the same news would be transmitted separately to all those papers. When allowance is made for this multiple payment for Association messages the assumed loss on press messages is mythical. So far as the Association messages is concerned the return submitted is altogether misleading. i