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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Aug 06, 1963
Page
3
A two story building planned between the Commerce Building and Electrical Trades and Science on Constitution Avenue will house departments for fashion home science and cookery. Ground floor includes cooking rooms laundry dining area and tiered demonstration room. First floor covers hairdressing dressmaking millinery soft furnishings and handicrafts with common rooms.
A short temporary rod linking Phillip Avenue and A Beckett Street in Watson will be closed to traffic today. It will be replaced by Innes Street as an access route after completion of building blocks facing Phillip Avenue and A Beckett Street. Engineering work at Phillip Avenue and Antill Street will link venue with the roundabout, with temporary traffic rerouting during construction.
Tasman Empire Airways Ltd. aims to keep an Electra prop-jet and run an overseas service to Wellington after receiving DC-8 jets in 1965. The plan envisions shared operations with Teal and Qantas, each providing an Electra, with about 5,000 annual Wellington to Australia hours, enough to support two aircraft, until Paraparaumu airport is upgraded.
Two people were injured by an explosion beside the Campo Tures police station in Bolzano Province near the Austrian border. They were inside the station being questioned about earlier blasts that damaged two electricity pylons. The province has a history of bombings tied to German-speaking autonomy demands.
George Wankowski, 45, of Kingston Guest House, jailed nine months by Mr Justice Eggleston after pleading guilty to breaking into Ludmillar Hare’s Narra bundah home on June 20 and stealing clothing and £2 15s. He previously served in the Polish Navy and underground, endured violence in concentration camps under Eichmann, and faced testimony about selling one clothing item.
No cases were heard yesterday as courtrooms remained dark due to an electrical fault. Many litigants waited until midday before leaving without hearings. Lights returned at 12.30 p.m. and proceedings began at 2 p.m.
Wankowski received a nine month term from June 20 for thefts and drink. Two men, Steve Brasits and Mihaly Abonyi, were committed for sentence on charges of breaking and entering and stealing £68 and a transistor radio from Capital Hill Hostel, plus other thefts. Adjourned assault case concerns Ivy Ogilvie who says George Vassiliotiz grabbed her wrist, which he denies.
The Stratheden, well known to Australian travellers, sails in September for Europe via the Suez. Vacancies remain in this 24,000-ton One Class liner with off season single tickets from £148 and return first class from £376. Tickets available through Orient Lines at Industry House National Circuit Barton or affiliated agencies.
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