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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Dec 17, 1963
Page
9
The text lists multiple lottery entries and prizes with names and addresses scattered among figures. It also notes German construction workers in a Rendsburg tunnel under an excess pressure of 2.3 atmospheres, with Dr Otto Wunsche leading medical oversight and examination in a pressure chamber.
A Mako shark weighing 718 pounds was caught off Tutukaka near Whangarei by L F Randle after a two hour fight. The fish, taken on an 80 lb line, surpasses the 528 lb record set by M McLaren of Moreton Bay Game Fishing Club in 1960.
Four year old Boni Francis disappeared from her village 30 miles from Port Moresby last Friday. Police fear she may not be found as search teams comb dense swampy jungle near Wanapa River with native officers. Officials say it is possible she was attacked by wild pigs and eaten.
Romeo Katerac, an FPskimo seal hunter from King Island Alaska, spent over two days adrift on an ice floe in the Bering Sea after it broke from pack ice. A rescue plane picked him up near his village. The incident occurred Thursday and was reported by the British Press.
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