Fijian team to play in Canberra at Showground
Arrangements are set for the Fijian national soccer team to meet ACT at Canberra Showground on Saturday September 21. Team officials confirmed the match location and date as part of the tour schedule.
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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Aug 13, 1968
Page
15
Arrangements are set for the Fijian national soccer team to meet ACT at Canberra Showground on Saturday September 21. Team officials confirmed the match location and date as part of the tour schedule.
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Bernard Orcel of France and Pierloreneo Clataud of Italy tied in 111.76 and 111.77 seconds for slaloms in the Thredbo Cup open, edging by a small margin in the combined event. Max Jueger of West Germany led a tight phase with 112.37 seconds, as Mozis and teams contested titles across the alpine meet with 42 starters.
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Amidst a complex British selection process, swimmers Kimber McGregor and Jarvis contend for captaincy amid talk of omissions. Queanbeyan and Canberra squads clash as Tony Jarvis and Johnny Sutton vie for titles, with British and Down Under teams eyeing key races and records.
An OCR fragment discusses weights for horse racing, noting plans to save merit and weigh horses by performance. It references a Saturday and a Tuesday leading to a Canberra practice, but the text is garbled and lacks clear facts or dates.
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