Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 848, 17 December 1929, Page 9

Cable Jottings

NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL. The Governor-General designate of New Zealand, Lord Bledisloe, has appointed his brother. Major Arthur Bathurst, Royal Berkshire Regiment, to be his private as well as his military secretary. RED JOURNAL IN BRITAIN.—The Moscow paper. “Pravda,” states that £ newspaper, to b© called the "Daily Worker,” is to b© established in Britain. to mobilise the masses for the ftifht to organise the minority movement, and to turn it into a majority against trade union bureaucracy, British capital and its policemen lackeys who are now in power. WHALING RESEARCH.— Discovery H., th© netv Royal research ship, which 1* on her way to the Falkland Islands for two years of scientific exploration in th» Antarctic, especially regarding will be in constant direct vwnmrjnication with Britain by means °f her special wireless equipment, will also enable the ship to listen to the rest of the world’s broadcasting. PRINCTf: AS PATROX#-The Prince of Wales has expressed his nesa to become patron of the British Empire Trade Exhibition, which will held in Buenos Aires from February 18 t 0 2. 1931. In a letter to Mr. R. Tdolt, chairman of the London executive committee of the exhibition. th« Prince says that he has no doubt ttwjt the exhibition will be great to British trade.