Duntroon Cadets Forge Lifelong Army Careers
A fragment notes Duntroon cadets pursuing lasting military careers. It hints at a typical Duntrooner becoming a lifelong service member, indicating strong commitment and future career path within the Army.
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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Aug 18, 1958
Page
10
A fragment notes Duntroon cadets pursuing lasting military careers. It hints at a typical Duntrooner becoming a lifelong service member, indicating strong commitment and future career path within the Army.
The modern army requires specialists beyond basic command. The Royal Military College at Duntroon provides four years of comprehensive training with a second year university option. A Duntroon graduate becomes a lieutenant, then captain after four years, and reachable major after six more years, with promotion based on ability and strong rewards.
In heavy rain a parttime miner dangled on a rope to save Tiny a fox terrier from a disused mine shaft near Junee. The dog fell Wednesday chasing a fox and survived five days with water and little food after landing on two dead sheep. Neighbors watched as rescuers winched the dog to safety.
Mainerd asserts the Federal Budget ignores local government relief and urges New South Wales to fund local authorities. Proposals include paying rates on state property, £50 000 yearly for five years to control noxious weeds, raising library subsidies, freeing local governments from main road contributions, boosting rural electricity extension subsidies, and noting property tax as the sole revenue for councils.
SYDNEY Sunday State Cabinet will meet on Tuesday to consider equal pay legislation prepared by Labour Minister Maroney. Employers warn that paying women equally will lift private industry wages by 50 million pounds yearly. Mr Maloney will hear employer views before parliament. Employers also oppose three weeks annual leave costing about 14 million pounds yearly and disadvantaging them against other states.
Congress completed action on legislation to bar a taxpayer from claiming a mistress as a dependent for tax benefits. The Internal Revenue Service had issued a regulation over a year ago banning the practice, and Congress moved to enshrine the rule into law to prevent court challenges.
The Yarra Lumle Deakin Progress Association urged creating a bushland reserve at Deakin bounded by Adelaide Avenue Grey Street and National Greatt featuring native Australian flora. It would sit on the main route from the Prime Minister's Lodge to Government House as an iconic Canberra attraction. The group also noted success in adding an extra after work bus Route 13 from Hotel Kurrajong to Deakin and asked that householder advance notice of kerbs footpaths and gutters be given to plan nature strips.
New York report says fencer John Denko, practicing thrusts and parries alone in his apartment, slipped and fell on his own sword. He was rushed to hospital in serious condition with a stab wound in the chest.
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