Labour seeks to amend roads bill and funding formula
Parliament debates the roads bill with criticism of the one third one third one third funding rule. Labour argues petrol tax should fund road maintenance and construction. critics warn of state matching requirements and inadequate five year projections. The debate ends with adjournment.
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Bird
Farle Page
C.P
Cowper
Lucock
Commonwealth
Treasury
Wreckage Sighted of Tudor Plane Missing Over Turkey
RAF air crew spotted wreckage on a 14,000 ft peak north of Lake Van Turkey tailplane and wing section identified as from the missing Woomera bound Tudor aircraft carrying secret equipment from England to the rocket range over 25,000 square miles searched by British American Turkish and Persian air forces near the Russian border.
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Nicosla
A.p.-Reuter
Turkey
R.A.F. Aire
R.xt
Lake van
Tudor
Mir
Teheran
England
Woomera
Tender Set For Giant Flat Block
The New South Wales Government accepted a 1.219 million tender by Concrete Constructions Pty Ltd to build the largest block of flats in Surry Hills. The 430 flats will rise in 78 weeks as part of a nearly 14 million project.
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Sydney
N.S.W
Surry Hills
Landa
Concrete Constructions Pty, Ltd
Ceylon UNESCO World Art Series Presented to National Library
The Senate President Sir Alistair Mc Mullin received a copy of the Ceylon volume of the UNESCO World Art Series from High Commissioner Perera for placement in the National Library. Present were Dr. Evatt, Mr. McLeay, and Mr. Casey observing the ceremony.
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Senate
Alistair McMullin
Ceylon
Perera
National Library
Lef
Evatt
House of Representatives
McLeay
Explosion on tanker drains eight crew as aid races in
A tanker en route from Port Adelaide to the Persian Gulf suffered a deadly explosion with eight killed and eight injured. The Italian liner Australia and Alverus with doctors sped to assist, while Beaumont stood by as emergency signals faded. The fire in the engine room was reported extinguished.
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Australia
Alverus
Port Adelaide
Persian Gulf
Beaumont
Five African Miners Die In Rock Fall Near Johannesburg
Five Africans were killed in a rock fall at a gold mine in Boksburg near Johannesburg. Rescue teams pulled 25 other Africans from the rubble.
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Johannesburg
A.a.p.-Reuter
Boksburg
Montgomery Criticized for Moscow Remarks Angers U.S.
British Field Marshal Montgomery accused U.S. leaders of inconsistency in a television interview during his Moscow trip. Reaction in American papers blamed the remarks for straining Anglo American ties amid Cold War tensions.
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U.S
Charlie McCarthy
Herter
Eisenhower
Mac Trilhan
Khrushchev
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Lord Montgomery
Moscow
Montgomery
Macmillan
Selwyn Lloyd
England
The
Daily Mail
Daily Express
the Express
News Chronicle
Sky sighting may mark Sputnik fall over South Australia
Adelaide Moonwatch officials and scientists said a brilliant sky object seen at 5 30 a m by hundreds of South Australians could be part of Sputnik III possibly a nose cone Its trajectory matched the orbit of Satellite TL and it broke up about 60 miles up some 150 miles south of Adelaide. Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory was notified.
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Adelaide
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Victor Lessievski
Ceylon Book For National Library
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New York Daily News
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Russia
New York
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