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Canberra Times

Location

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Date

Dec 22, 1961

Page

3

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.

Toys and gifts featured at Ainslie Pharmacy window

Rubber Toys Kiddicraft Educational Toys Teddy Bears and Wendy Boston Toys highlighted as ideal children's gifts at Ainslie Pharmacy.

Wendy Boston Ainslie Pharmacy

New Raid Year’s Haul for Thieves Total £15 Million

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.

Westminster Buckingham Palace Buckingham Gate

Raids Hit Banks and Post Office in Spur of Weekend Crime

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.

Post Office Bank of England

Production shows slight rise across key industries

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.

Commonwealth Statistician K. Archer

Fewer Reds Now In Italy

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.

Rome A.a.p.reuter

Immigration minister denies migrant flow cut

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.

Downer Commonwealth Statistician Australia Pate

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