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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Dec 23, 1964
Page
4
The Commonwealth Government offers grants up to £250 to young married couples who have saved for at least three years and intend to buy or build their first home. Details are in the pamphlet A GRANT FOR YOUR HOME available at post offices banks and Commonwealth Housing Department offices in capital cities.
Canberra report quotes Elizabeth Durack on Aboriginal assimilation over 30 years. She discusses changes in lifestyle, shifts from station work to town life, and deep ties to country despite erosion of traditional beliefs. Durack, Perth-born, highlights respect and gender restraints in Aboriginal communities.
Canberra reports highlight seven women who run the Totalisator Agency Board three Canberra branches. Manageresses oversee agencies at Civic Centre Kingston and Manuka with 19 other female staff handling wagers and posting race details. Vivian Barnes, 24, leading manageress, discusses training, hours, and public education of TASB methods as weather warms and the Barnes family plans leisure activities.
Claire Burton of Ainslie won Sydney University’s anthropology medal as an honours student. She spent ten months in London as a research assistant with Tavistock Institute studying trade unions and Dublin bus strikes. She aims for a PhD and hopes to lecture at Port Moresby University after graduation.
New South Wales shoppers face higher poultry and meat prices for the Christmas rush as stores extend hours to nine tonight. The guide highlights 2lb jars of mayonnaise at 3/11, beetroot 1/11, 2907 cans, giant asparagus spears 4/14, Ally salmon 4/11, instant cocoa 1/7, and glace fruits 5/9 for Christmas desserts amid busy stores.
A scanned Cric Centre price list shows meat and seafood items with per pound or per unit costs. Included are fillet steak, rump, T bone, round, topside, various chops and sausages, pork, lamb cuts, fish like mullet and kingfish, along with vegetables and fruits with numerous price points.
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