CABLE BREVITIES

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 225, 19 June 1931, Page 9

CABLE BREVITIES

Dr. C. E. W. Bean. Australian official war historian, has been awarded the Chesney Medal by the Council of the Royal United Service Institution for his Official History of the war. states n Sydney message. » * * Mr. -Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the United States Treasury, _ who has just arrived in London on a private visit, called on the Prime Minister in his room at the House of Commons on Wednesday afternoon. # <■ * Mr. D. G. White, of Christ Church College, Oxford, is due at Sydney on August 1 to arrange a tour of public schoolboys. Among the notable schools represented will be Eton, Harrow. Marlborough, Winchester. Charterhouse. Repton, Radley, and Sedbergh. « » * It was stated in the House of Commons on Wednesday that a scheme, for broadcasting programmes to the British colonies and protectorates, recently submitted by the British Broadcasting Corporation, is being studied by the Government. « « * Dr. Eckener has announced in Berlin that the delay caused by the breakdown of the Wilkins submarine will prevent their meeting at a rendezvous in the Polar regions. The Graf Zeppelin starts on July 20 in a first bop to Leningrad, and thence on a Polar cruise of five days. She will not attempt to reach the Pole, and upon her return will fly non-stop to Brazil. » » * The New Zealand High Coinmissioner. Sir Thomas Wilford, and representatives of the Dominions Office. Government hoards, til" Royal Veterinary Society. Australis House.' and shipping and commerce were present at the interment of the late Mr. Crabb, secretary of the New Zealand High Commissioner’s Department, at West Norwood Cemetery, states a London message. The wreaths included one ihrotn th® Jfaw Zealand Govern-