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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Dec 13, 1969
Page
2
Fragmented weather report notes mixed conditions with mentions of rain and temperature changes. References to SRW Mit events and local timings hint at regional updates. Details are garbled but indicate a forecast focus on readers in specific towns and counties.
Mr Roger Dean will relinquish his appointment as Administrator of the Northern Territory at the end of February next year. The announcement was made by the Minister for External Affairs, Mr Sam McMahon, who said Dean had also held the post of Consul-General for San Francisco.
In a protest to the 1962 Geneva Convention participants, Pathet Lao accuses the Laotian government of taking orders from the United States after an attack on Plan its, a site under Communist control since 1964. The report notes ministerial tenure and a commentator praising efforts to publicize prospects for the territory, with Northern Territory selection still pending.
An American survey issued yesterday projects Central Australia attracting 120000 overseas and 140000 domestic visitors in ten years. It envisions a network of 250 miles of resort facilities from Alice Springs to Hermannsburg and emphasizes wilderness preservation and active involvement of Aboriginal communities in tourism, guiding and cultural presentations.
In Melbourne police found two bodies near a grave site about ten miles east of the city. The victims are suspected to be Harold Peckman and Kathleen Taylor, a St Kilda couple missing for 11 months. A man named Soren of St Kilda appeared in City Court charged with their murder. The bodies were located along the Princes Highway near Sheepwash Nll day after an earlier report.
A fragmented OCR sample lists radio and television items with various stations, times, and program notes. Names like Gardena and Strath are visible amid scattered phrases about schedules and musical segments.
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