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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Aug 07, 1970
Page
18
Australia will receive spare engines and ground support gear for 24 Phantom jets next week. The rental arrears system improved with fewer long overdue tenants though total arrears remain. only $58,000 remained in overdue amounts last month.
The US Ambassador and Mr W. Rice announce an official inspection likely to occur soon. The import ban on Australian mutton has eased, allowing exports from the Goulburn abattoir to the United States. Also noted is a new meat works project in Shepparton Victoria.
ACT teachers voiced mixed views on a NSW Public Service Board plan to cut mathematics and science periods for first form in 1971. Principals decide if two periods can be saved. concerns arise about staff transfer, training, and the impact on junior forms. The ACT Inspector noted current allotments and warned of potential shortages if implemented.
The Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology will honour long serving volunteers who provide daily rainfall data for climate studies. Awards go to those with 40 years at one site and to families with 1 million years of observations. The first excellence award goes to Edward Yaunsen for readings at Dumpee Station near Grafton NSW since April.
Commonwealth Police members pursue higher qualifications in the ACT while Commissioner J M Davis declines to confirm time off or fee reimbursement. An ACT Police member resigned over lack of support. Davis says a ruling on study leave and reimbursements was under review and hoped in about two months. He noted financial factors cannot be ignored for those studying.
Sydney report details 88-year-old Mr Doughs Keys of Ashfield who left an estate totaling 390,846 dollars to be probated today in the Supreme Court. He left most to his sister Vivienne Clam Keys and relatives, while 1000 dollars each to the Frank Whidden Masonic Games and the NSW Raw fig Association.
A youth told police he had brandished a starting pistol to scare people and was fined $20 by Mr Fischer in Canberra Petty Sessions. He was ordered to enter into a $1000 bond with good behaviour for 12 months after being found guilty of unlawful assault. The case involved Kim Nigel Evans, June 7, and later events around Commonwealth Avenue. Charges against others, including resisting and hindering police, were dismissed or addressed in the same session.
Arthur Wilson of Charlton Street Pearce was fined 55 and disqualified from driving for one month by Mr Pearson after pleading guilty to speeding on North bourne Avenue in April and March 1969 charges. He was remanded on bail for 250 with single surety. Ferdinand Konrad of Bonney Street Amalie was fined 65 for unlicensed driving and disobeying a traffic light on April 15.
Sydney Clifford Fitzsimmons, 49, a bricklayer of Downer, pleaded guilty to indecent assault in the ACT Supreme Court and was released on a 500 bond. The hearing also touched on a separate damages claim by Dennis O’Rourke against Thompson Constructions over an industrial accident, with arguments about roller operation, driver inexperience, and alleged mechanical failure.
Proceedings before Mr Justice Nimmo involve numerous names and civil matters. The listing includes traffic licence queries, estate hearings, and a range of defendants and witnesses across Geoffrey street intersections and Sydney state connections.
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