PRESS CABLE SERVICE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 301, 29 January 1910, Page 6

PRESS CABLE SERVICE.

A NEW SCHEME. INAUGURATED BY THE AUSTRALIAN PRESS. Dunedin, Friday. News' has been received from Sydney that some of the proprietors of the Australasian provincial press, having at their head Mr. Thomas Tempercy, one of the Australian members of the Imperial Press Conference, have initiated an independent Press cable service for the transmission of news by the Pacific' cable route. It is understood that the combination will be registered as a company with a capital of £IO,OOO. The company proposes establishing two offices, o::o in Vancouver to collect Imperial, European, and American items, and another in London to handle purely Australasian news. Mr. W. E. Vincent, of the Glen limes Examiner, a member of the executive of the Australasian provincial Press', left by the Makura on 17th January to take charge of the Vancouver office, and will commence the service from there on 14th February. Mr. P. McMillan leaves Sydney on 23rd March for London, to organise the London office for the transmission of purely Australasian items. All other news will be collected and despatched from Vancouver. The Canadian Pacific Association has been asked to attend to the Australasian items until Mr. McMillan arrives in London. The service will consist of 4800 words per week, and arrangements have been made with various papers to supply that average. The new association will endeavor to supply some of the New Zealand newspapers, but the field in this Dominion will necessarily be very restricted on account of agreements that are in existence to which all the principal newspapers in New Zealand are parties, and by which they receive their news from different sources.