Mystery Fish Deaths Alarm Evans Head Residents
Sydney reports concern as fish deaths near Evans Head prompt health warnings. Townspeople are advised not to eat the fish as officials investigate possible poisoning and await further guidance.
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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Dec 22, 1961
Page
3
Sydney reports concern as fish deaths near Evans Head prompt health warnings. Townspeople are advised not to eat the fish as officials investigate possible poisoning and await further guidance.
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Westminster raid near Buckingham Palace yields £32,000 after eight masked men used iron bars and coshes in a running battle with six Post Office guards. The episode marks a third haul over £20,000 this week, part of a series of brilliantly planned robberies using commando tactics.
A sequence of robberies targets include a post office money van transfer where £32 was seized and three messengers beaten. Earlier in the week masked thieves kidnapped bank messengers and took £20,000 after leaving the Bank of England. A separate heist dug through a wall to steal £20,000 in jewellery, while a bank van raid with £100,000 ended in a shootout with guards and police. one assailant was wounded.
Production rose modestly in several sectors last month though overall levels remained below November last year. Only eight of 34 industries posted gains, with woven cloth near year high and synthetic fibre woven cloth at its best November level in two years, while pig iron and ingot steel fell.
Rome report says Italian Communist Party membership fell three percent this year. Peak was 2,200,000 in 1955. by early 1956 it stood at 1,728,194, according to a leading party official.
Minister for Immigration Mr Downer denied a cut in the programme and kept the year end target at 125000 with intake near target for five months to November 1961. He said no limit on full fare or assisted migrants who are skilled or quickly employable, while a temporary limit on unskilled migrants remains and will be removed soon.
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