AN OCEAN NEWSPAPER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 54, 25 June 1914, Page 3

AN OCEAN NEWSPAPER.

|Per Pee«» Association.J Wellington, June 23. An announcement of interest was made to a Times representative tonight by Mr E. T. Fisk, technical manager of the Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia), Ltd., who returned from Rotorua by the morning’s Main (Trunk express. For some time now, although the larger passenger vessels trading in and about Australasian waters are equipped with wireless telegraphy, very little news—lately none at all—has been available for passengers. Mr Fisk stated that a scheme was no w in hand ’ for the , establishment of an ocean newspaper in southern waters, which would give passengers an account daily of the wp bid's happenings. The publication, which would he a substantial one, would commence on the vessels on the Australian coast, and it was hoped to gradually extend it practically over tho whole of the southern hemisphere. Mr Fisk pointed out that on the Atlantic practically all the passenger vessels were issuing a daily paper at sea, and the need for it had already been felt in southern waters. The chain of wireless stations was now so complete that there were no practical difficulties in the way.