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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Dec 02, 1957
Page
7
A fire on the Hhloura property on Cotter Road, linked to a magpie electrocution, burned over 100 acres. In Canberra region, December heat aided two fires, with fire ban extended by the Fire Council. Crews from Queanbeyan and Michelago battled the blaze.
The General Manager reports refined sugar output in Australia totaling 10 495 000 tons from five refineries and 102 500 tons from the Auckland plant. Building materials sales rose about 10 percent while Timbrock hardboard production expands. new plants for vinyl acetate, polystyrene, and Pyrmont gas capacity progress with mid-1958 production targets. The Rona motor ship faced a black ban in Sydney, and raw sugar exports from Australia in 1957 are expected to exceed 735 000 tons.
A CSR built factory is shown as operated by one man using instruments to control processes. It manufactures carbon dioxide from fuel oil for use in carbonating beverages and refrigerating ice cream.
Labour gains four to five percent leading to a working majority as Labour reaches 41 seats and National 39 or 38 with several seats in doubt. Walter Nash poised to become New Zealand's next prime minister amid tax concessions and increased benefits.
Soviet Prime Minister Marshal Nikolai Bulganin urged stronger armed forces and closer military cooperation with China during a reception for a Chinese defense delegation led by Marshal Peng Teh Huai. He stressed vigilance, increased defensive capacity, and the deepening of fraternal ties between the two nations and their armies.
A group calling itself the Territory Workers' Disputes and Right Group led a march through Port Moresby streets with police permission to advocate for the introduction of trade unions in the Territory. About 53 banners appeared as foremen and tradesmen dismissed by Clementson Limited protested a dispute over a native hospital construction job nearing completion.
In Post Augusta a sand tunnel collapsed burying three boys aged 10 to 12. Wayne Ashbey Colling and James Stewart Bruckshaw died of suffocation after being buried. Tan Bruckshaw escaped but could not reach his brother. Constables and diggers freed the entombed boy, but both victims were dead.
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