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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Aug 15, 1968
Page
27
The Children’s Book Week Council outlines plans for the annual general meeting in Canberra. The event will feature well known writers and figures including Muetretory Iahara Cooney, Maurice Jendat and Robert Me closkey, focusing on a picture hook making exhibit.
The cross word 97 solution notes many visitors to the Children’s Book Council Hook Exhibition with 1000 adults and 5000 children in attendance. Funds raised totaled 98 dollars for the Christman book fund for needy children. Jill That appointed Canberra Public Library Children’s Librarian to a new ACT role. Three Canberra Council members, Copping, Masterman, and K McDonald, will attend the Australian Children’s Book Council meeting in Melbourne on September 10.
W L Hoffmann presented a chamber music recital at the National Library Theatre to mark the opening of the new building. The intimate venue suited the small ensemble, offering warm decor and lighting that enhanced the atmosphere, with seating designed for optimal sight and sound.
The Library Theatre debut featured Beethoven Violin Sonata in A major and the Kreutzer Sonata by Ernest Llewellyn Sinsky with a refined violin piano balance. Vaughan Williams Hymns sung by William Mecheri contrasted with Edwards and Alan Fenton’s vocal support. A lighter Baroque mix for violin clarinet and piano closed the evening, praised by Andrew McCullough, underscoring the theatre’s future role for concerts and occasional screenings.
Readable fragments show a local notice referencing a public action and involved officials. Details such as names, dates, or exact action are unclear.
An electronic computer analysis by Greek scholars Rev A Morton and Sohn Chadwick suggests Homer's epics the Iliad and Odyssey were written by a single author. The tests examined sentence length patterns and found remarkable consistency across the works, arguing against multiple poets.
The article details a bridge hand where West opens clubs ten and East overcalls. The declarer faces a near hopeless four heart contract as the defense holds two tricks. The plan centers on leading to dummy and ducking a return to force West to reveal the ace while hoping West holds a doubleton four. The narrative notes East’s early misread and South’s desperate defense amid the tricky endgame.
In a bridge column, South avoids loss as he countered Souths defence to stop Pearls. The narrative details elaborate ruffs, discards, and trumping sequences across clubs diamonds and spades leading to trick 11 with dummy exposed, followed by careful endplay planning. Listed are players and pairs such as Mre Pearlman and Dy Shannon with multiple entries, reflecting a long duplicated section of the club input.
Fragmentary list of participants across classes and events. Names include Mrs Perryman My Findlay Mr Collis Mr Carmichael Mrs Guilderson Miss Jobmon Mrs Burnet Mra Morris Mrs Crichton Mes Holt Mos Ferguson Mre Lowe Mra Street E Wa Mrs Gordon Mrs Byrnet Mra Campbell Mrs Franky Mrs David Mrx Cornish Mer Dunlop Mra Isaacs and others. Simultaneous handicap event lists Captehorn Read Wishard Rabbidge.
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