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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Aug 27, 1958
Page
2
Roberton warned of a near 120 percent increase in deserted wives from 4 280 to about 10 000 over ten years. He linked the trend to war era marriages and blamed improvidence and domestic mismanagement. He urged defense of moral values against a welfare state seen as subverting democratic society.
A Canberra junior farmer, Peter Buckmaster of The Rivers, Canberra, has been selected as the NSW junior farmer for a five month study tour of the United Kingdom next year. Winter farmers from each state will join, sponsored by the P and O Steam Navigation Company, with free sea travel and expenses paid by the company. Upon return, the best junior farmer will receive a monetary grant equal to the cost of an agricultural college course.
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