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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Aug 09, 1941
Page
3
Radio schedule fragment lists varied programmes and times including pro bono public services, church services, concerts, news, and talks. Notable items mention Caen, Pro Bono, Missi, Cathedral services, and Aboriginal legend readings with multiple music and poetry segments.
Readable OCR fragment outlines a financial note on coats and pricing, mentioning a 3p rate per coat and a total of 18.106,360 tron GQaddmaland with £0,918,200Prem. Names, places, and full context are unclear due to garbled text.
Fragmented notes detail a board led by Powers overseeing ship building amid security disputes. Mention of merchant ships, docking, and maintenance facilities appears alongside hospital, public notices, and a Canberra government call for submissions. The garbled text references a navy reputation, supply of equipment, and a government interior department notice with August deadlines.
Melbourne report quotes a Labour Party spokesman saying the party will not move to precipitate Parliament but will be ready to govern, with no change to war policy. The statement emphasizes parliamentary stability and cautions against premature moves that could threaten Australia.
The court altered Charlie Tarleton’s death sentence for the murder of Henry Heangans at Chullora to ten years penal servitude for manslaughter after a dramatic appeal by the Attorney General. Chief Justice Bir Frederick Jordan and the full bench ruled the original verdict wrong, stating Heanans had provoked Tarleton and that the blow influenced the killing.
A Soviet freighter crew faced restrictions preventing attendance at CPM Alcomol Mae operations. Officials cited weather and scheduling constraints as the primary reasons for the absence.
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