CABLE BREVITIES

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 180, 28 April 1931, Page 9

CABLE BREVITIES

Lord and Lady Irwin are expected to arrive at London from India on May 2, states a British official wireless message. * * * Primo Camera, the giant Italian boxer, is included in the latest contingent called up for military service, states a Paris message. • . * * A Finn, Reingoldt, broke the world’s swimming record for 500 metres breaststroke, states a London message. He completed the distance in 456.85ec. » * » Lord Bledisloe has written a letter of thanks to “The Times” for its donation and also its services in stimulating the earthquake fund by acknowledging donations, states a London message. New flealand Pioneer Dead. The death is announced in Sydney of Mrs. Emma Bavin, aged 86. She was bom in New Zealand, where her husband, the Rev, Rainsford Bavin, was engaged for a number of years in religious work among the Maoris. She was the mother of Mr. T. R. Bavin, Leader of the State Opposition. U.S. Exports Drop. The exports of United States cotton last year were valued at only £100,000.000, the lowest since 1915, states a New York message. The Postal Department shows a deficit, including airmail services, totalling about £20,000,000. The loss on merchant marine was £27,000,000. » • ♦ Wonuen Artiste Win. Despite the competition of well-known men, women have won both the silver and the bronze medals offered for the first time at the spring exhibition of the Royal Society of British Artists, states a British official wireless message. Miss Sylvia Gosse, daughter of the late Sir Edmund Gosse, the well-known author, won the silver medal, and Miss Dorothea Sharp the bronze medal. * * * Levy on Incomes. A levy on all incomes to support the Unemployed will be proposed by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress before the Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance on May 4. The council, whose views will be submitted, as representing the entire trade union movement, will declare that the present condition of industry and the great amount of unemployment creates a national emergency requiring special measures. • * * Radio and the Press. The American Newspaper Publishers’ Convention decided that radio programmes, if published, should be handled as paid advertising; also that news broadcasting should be restricted to newspapers and Press associations, states a Vancouver message. There was much discussion on the heavy newspaper losses due to advertising over the air. Mr. Aylesworth, head of the National Broadcasting Company, threatens that if the newspapers discontinue publishing radio programmes as news, broadcasting concerns may go into the publishing business.