The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1913. THE WORLD'S NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 51, 5 July 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1913. THE WORLD'S NEWS.

Few people realise the great co.it of production of their daily newspaper, nor yet how much trouble is taken on their behalf to supply every day the news of the world in readable lorm. It is easy to be critical, and here in New Zealand, where the newspaper service in almost every part of the country is admittedly outstandingly efficient, and of a very high standard when compared with the daily news-

paper press of other lauds, newspaper readers expect great tilings. The excellent service of the United Press As-

sociation, to which a large number of newspapers in the .Dominion belong, has done good work in the past, and by means of its carefully thought-out and generally well-arranged agency system, the news of the land is gathered together each day and distributed to the country as a whole. The cable service of the Association also

lias always been a powerful feature

of the newspapers taking the service, and it has' served very well in the past. But these are progressive days and many of the papers belonging to

the Press Association have come to the conclusion that the already excellent cable supply might be augmented and made even more valuable. With this view, therefore, the Press Association, on behalf of a number of

newspapers,—including the "Stratford Evening Post," has completed arrangements to take an extended copyright cable service, to ho known as the- ''Sydney Sun Special Cables," and on and after Monday next, dune 7th, these cablegrams will appeal- in

our columns. The selection is a specially compiled collection of the I ondon ''Times' " news, and is cabled direct to the Sydney "Sun." From time to time 4 we have published some of these messages, on the arrival of the big Sydney paper by mail, but we shall henceforward, under the new

arrangement to share the ''Sun" service, publish the messages practically

at i ho samo hour and on the same day as they appear in London and in Sydney, making, of course, duo allowance foY the difference in time. The old service will continue as before. New Zealand's principal towns ami centres will henceforward be better supplied probably with carefully selected news of the world than any other country, and credit is fairly due to the enterprise which has brought this about. Naturally such an advance is not made without considerable expenditure, but for our own part we believe the efforts

made to supply this part of New Zealand with a worthy newspaper have not been without appreciation, and that the movement now made will not bo overlooked by the many subscribers and supporters who have watched the "Stratford Evening Post's" development from a very small and modest beginning.