LACK OF U.S. NEWS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1000, 17 June 1930, Page 9

LACK OF U.S. NEWS

ONLY SENSATIONS CABLED, SAYS VISITOR AUSTRALIAN PAPERS CRITICISED The lack of informative news from America in the Australian papers was deplored by Mr. R. L. Pierrepont. of Park Avenue, New York, who arrived from Sydney by the Maunganui this morning. He is accompanied by Mrs. Pierrepont. They have been touring Australia and will spend some time in New Zealand seeing as much of the country as possible. Mr. Pierrepont said that he was unable to comment on the state of the New York markets because so little information was cabled out that he could rarely tell whether shares had risen or fallen. The only news which seemed to be sent from America concerned murders and similar sensation**. New Zealand had received a good deal of publicity in New York through Zane Grey’s book. Mr. Pierrepont was sorry to have missed both the trout and deep-sea fishing, for which New Zealand was so well known abroad. Like all other parts of the world, the United States was suffering from a period of depression, he said. Mr. Pierrepont has been prominently associated with many tig New York business concerns, but he has now retired. He was a director of the Brooklyn Union Gas Company, the Hanover Fire Insurance Company, the Home Life Insurance Company. Lawyers’ Mortgage Company. Heights Company, and a trustee of several companies and institutions.