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Melbourne Cup is Flashed to Auckland NEV/S IN THE SUN A flick in ths ether ancl the news was through. Trivalve had won the Cup. THE SUN was poised for it. The wireless plant spoke like a thing alive. The tension was white hot as paper and metal fairly sprinted down to the waiting presses. Seven * minutes after the starting time of the race in Melbourne boys were selling Melbourne Cup editions of THE SUN in Queen Street. Doubtless there were folk on the Fiemington racecourse who did not know the result of the great race so soon. The Cup was due to start at 3.37, Australian time, which is 5.7 New Zealand time. In 3min. 2-lsec. it was over, and at 5.14 THE SUN was selling to eager readers. Speed is the essence of the contract in serving the public with the news in these days. The staff and the machines were waiting for the invisible impulse. Across the Tasman in a flash, on to the machines in a rush; the press grumbles out sheaves of papers, and newsboys run crying them into the streets. So the first news of the 1927 Melbourne Cup was brought to Auckland.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 191, 2 November 1927, Page 1
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200SPEED! Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 191, 2 November 1927, Page 1
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