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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Dec 10, 1957
Page
3
About 100 prisoners in Long Fay Gao will be moved to Warragaraba site for timber clearance at Burragorang Valley. They will remove sacs and reduce pollution as valley floods, with no wages but doubled good conduct remissions. Officials declined to reveal financial terms of the arrangement.
Eight children aged one to ten perished when a fire consumed a three room cottage three miles west of Park Falls Wisconsin. The under sheriff said all eight bodies were recovered from the charred ruins of the Klein home while parents were away.
James Alfred Davis of Ruby Street O Connor was convicted in the Canberra Court of Petty Sessions yesterday for indecent exposure. He was fined £7 for an offence committed in Manuka Circle on November 30.
Ronald Goward 36 of Tyson Street Ainslie was convicted of driving under the influence on December 6 on Duntroon Road. He received £50 or 50 days hard labour, three months to pay, with licence cancelled again. Two other drivers faced penalties in Canberra court: Gregory Thornton and John Ryan for similar offences, plus Austin Kelly fined for DUI and licence issues after a Kingston Hotel incident.
Howard Keane, 34, of Munro Street West Brunswick, awarded £19000 damages in a road accident case approved by Mr Justice Lowe in the Supreme Court. The judge adjourned argument on court control of funds and Keane’s capacity to manage his affairs.
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