Mr. Sami Venkatachalam Chetti, the President of the Madras Corporation, performed last evening the pleasant function of opening the Mount Road Branch of the Madras News Agency. Mr. S. Srinivasa Iyengar presided on the occasion. There was a fair gathering. Mr. R. Balasundaram Mudaliar, the Editor of ‘Doodle’ uncle of Mr. T. Thanikachalam, the Proprietor of the Agency, received guests on arrival. The branch is situated in one of the rooms of the groundfloor of the Mahajana Sabha.Mr. S. Srinivasa Iyengar in requesting Mr. Sami Venkatachalam Chetti to open the new branch, said that no public man could afford to ignore the Press in these days and the Press depended most on distribution. The Madras News Agency, he understood, had been doing good work in the direction of distributing newspapers and magazines for the last four years. There lay great scope for these agencies in India and he wished prosperity for this undertaking. Published - June 22, 2026 04:25 am IST