Bread price rise looming across ACT and states
Prices for flour rise across ACT NSW and Victoria tied to a $4.50 a ton increase in flour costs. Bakers warn higher bread prices may follow though absorption varies by region. Authorities note wheat and grain price changes, with potential impacts on poultry feed and egg industry subsidies.
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ACT Bread Manufacturers Association
Canberra
Anthony
Parry
Pollard
Nsw
N. B. Love Pty Ltd
A. W. Pardy
Melbourne
A. M. Eley
Lers Association
A. M. Francis
Victorian Bread Manufacturers Association
Country Division
Association
Associated Poultry Farmers of
Australia
Syme
Monet painting sets world record price at auction
Claude Monet's La Terrasse a Sainte Adresse sold for 1,260,084 Australian dollars, a world record for a painting in Australia. The work, hailed as a premier postwar French impressionist piece, went to Agnew of London. It had been sent by Theodore Pitcairn and the Beneficia Foundation of Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania.
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London
Aap-Reuter
Claude Monet
la Terrasse A Sainte Adresse
Agnew
Theodore Pitcairn
Beneficia Foundation
Bry Athyn
Pennsylvania
Pitcairn
Threat to beer supplies in Canberra and Sydney
Hotels and clubs in Canberra face beer shortages by midweek if Sydney brewery workers strike again on Monday. Bottled beer is nearly exhausted, with limited keg and bottled supplies arriving only recently. In Sydney, a stop work meeting at Town Hall could prompt a resumption of a 13 day strike threatening more shortages.
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Canberra
Sydney
Melbourne
Adelaide
Act
The
Aus
Tralian Hotels Association
J. Roach
Sydney Town Hall
NSW Labour Council
R. Marsh
MLC
NSW Breweries
NSW Brewery Association
MSW
Pecking at Gulf of Suez air clash reports
Two Poulan two issued croplanes were shot down over the Gulf of Suez after violating Egyptian air space. AAP reported Friday citing radio.
Australian troops suffer losses in Phuoc Tuy clash
One Australian soldier was killed and 11 wounded in a Vietcong battle over food supplies in Phuoc Tuy Province. Pte Ronald John Bell of Albany and Pte Francis Arthur Hyland of Wynyard died of wounds. An Army spokesman counted 11 Vietcong killed, three wounded, nine detained. The operation Forrest yielded a major Vietcong camp near Nui Dat amid a two hour fight. Australians posted five dead and 36 wounded for the week, the worst since Long Tan.
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Phuoc Tuy
South Vietnam
Ronald John Bell
Albany
Francis Arthur Hyland
Wynyard
Tasmania
Canberra
Army
Nui Dat
Long Tan
Fan
Saigon
Australians uncover large Vietcong arms cache in Forrest operation
Australian forces report eleven Vietcong guerrillas killed and a substantial weapons cache captured in Phuoc Tuy Province during Forrest a search and destroy drive. The base camp at Nui Dat yielded mortars machine guns rockets and rifles plus grenades mines radios and documents. Fifteen US Marines were killed and 453 wounded in renewed clashes near Con Thien as fighting resumed along the DMZ.
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Saigon
Phuoc Tuy
Con Thien
Man and girl in ordeal at sea near Jurien Bay
A 16 year old girl Tamara Lebedeus and Peter Jazalevski, 33, survived 38 hours clinging to an upturned crayboat off Jurien Bay after their skipper Kaolef Dambitis, 54, disappeared presumed drowned. The Gauja, valued at $14,000, was wrecked on the reef during the maiden voyage near Cervantes.
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Perth
Jurien Bay
Kaolef Dambitis
Bayswater
Gauja
Tamara Lebedeus
Redcliffe
Peter Jazalevski
Jazalevekis
Fremantle
Cay
Cervantes
Miss Lebedeus
Dambitis
ABC warned on standards in broadcast control debate
The Postmaster General Mr Hulme urged the ABC to adopt commercial network censorship standards or Parliament might legislate. Speaking at ABC Staff Association offices in St Leonards he stressed the need for consistent community standards while affirming ABC autonomy. Opposition leader Whitlam called for Treasury-free ABC oversight and noted its role in leading television entertainment.
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Hulme
ABC
Australian Broadcasting Commission Staff Association
Sydney
St Leonards
Canberra
Broadcasting Control Board
Commission
Control Board
Whitlam
Treasury
Cowan
Australian Broadcasting Control Board
Nine Year Old Surfer Saves Four at Burleigh Heads
Claude Jenkins nine of Burleigh Heads became a hero when he rescued an eight year old girl and three men plus a girl swept by undertow at Burleigh Heads on the Gold Coast. He directed victims to lie on their backs then alerted lifesavers, helping others reach shore while surfers and lifeguards aided.
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Brisbane
Burleigh Heads
Gold Coast
Claude Jenkins
Claude
Tocks
Roger Bradford
Dave Sandilands
Bob Schmith
Licence fines in Frankston Court for unlicensed TV radio use
In Frankston Court today Mr K J Kean SM fined 376 defendants a total of 5 48 for operating TV and radio sets without current licences. One offender was fined 115 for five years without licences. Another 400 cases will be heard next Friday.
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Melbourne
Frankston Court
K. J. Kean
Australian rocket fires from Woomera during Wresat-1 pass
An Australian designed research rocket was launched from Woomera at 2.40pm Canberra time as Wresat-1 passed overhead. The satellite gathered data on solar and cosmic radiation hitting the upper atmosphere while the rocket relayed measurements on absorption of radiation through its structure.
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Adelaide
Woomera
Canberra
Warning on notes in Melbourne as fake $10 flood feared
Police warn Melbourne businesses to watch for counterfeit ten dollar notes during the Christmas shopping period. Superintendent L Bent of the CIB reports 88 forged notes detected this week, with about 120 notes found monthly, a spike that could flood Christmas trade.
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Melbourne
CIB
L. Bent
Dairy scheme readies in June government plan
Government proposes a multi dollar dairy scheme with initial investigations by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics led by Anthony. McNamara the US Defense Secretary and the Pentagon headline this week while Melbourne endures the most severe water restrictions.
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Anthony
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Melbourne
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NSW Flour Millers Council
Bakers Union
Bill Morton
Victorian
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Joanne Wendler
Wendler
Northern Territory
R Wilson
Bac Province
Mr Hulme
Parliament
Treasury Control
T. S. Duckmanton
A .Cowan
Federation of Australian
John Graham
N. M. Hunnings
Film Censors and the
Law
Harold Fry
Cromword
Anthea
Morrisset
Queanbeyan
Canberra Times
Canberra City
GPO
Imion
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