Sydney press executive McLachlan to retire December
Mr A H McLachlan acting on medical advice will retire as managing director of John Fairfax Ltd on December 3 but will remain a director of the company and some subsidiaries. He joined the Sydney Morning Herald in 1936, became general manager of John Fairfax and Sons Ltd in 1944, and was appointed managing director of John Fairfax Ltd in 1965. Sir Warwick Fairfax praises his long service during war and modernization. R P Falkingham named general manager, with directorships at Australian Newsprint Mills and Tasman Pulp and Paper.
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Sydney
A. H. McLachlan
John Fairfax Ltd
Warwick Fairfax
McLachlan
Sydney Morning Herald
John Fairfax and Sons Ltd
Herald
Activittes
Refugees go home crash survivor dies in bush ordeal
Darwin report: Norman Cartwright, 35, of Ryland Road Darwin, died while en route to hospital after a twin engine Cessna 402 crash near Gove airstrip. He survived two days in heavy rain and bush after four companions were incinerated. Cartwright suffered a broken arm and leg, exposure, and thirst before rescue.
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Darwin
Ryland Road
Gove
Mr Cartwright
Cartwright
Port Moresby
Melbourne
Cecil Ryan
Irian
Papua
Paul
Arnhem
New Guinea
Tony Scott
West
Keith Nuttal
Dar Irian
Souumane
Cartwin
DCA
Papua New Guinea
Dick Brown
Northern Territory Police
NT Department of
Civil Aviation
Heat risk to infants prompts medical warning
The Australian Medical Association warns heat waves endanger babies and young children. In Sydney a statement urges extra water every two hours during peak heat, with boiled water cooled for infants, light clothing, and cool interior cooling.
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Australian Medical Association
Sydney
Christmas Eve and Day services fill Canberra churches
About 900 to 1,000 worshippers attended Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services across Canberra. The Very Reverend T. W. Andrew and other clergy led rites at St Christopher's and St John the Baptist while congregations filled St Andrew's Presbyterian, Ainslie, and Canberra cathedrals.
Wage gains praised as nearly all workers gain
Sydney editorial in the Employers Review says wage value inquiries produced sizable increases for nearly every worker. It rebuts critics who claim a 3 percent across the board rise is inadequate amid 6 percent price rises and rising taxes. Melbourne reports senior bank managers receive up to 281 dollars extra annually under Commissioner Portus.
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Sydney
Employers Review
Melbourne
J.| H. Portus
Adelaide
Pilot Missing After Light Aircraft Sinks Near Cape Otway
Police called off the search for 28 year old Peter Phillips of St Kilda after his Fuji low wing monoplane vanished five miles south of Cape Otway while en route from King Island to Moorabbin. Civil Aviation radio monitors picked up a mayday and report of engine trouble before contact was lost.
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Melbourne
Cape Otway
Peter Phillips
St Kilda
King Island
Moorabbin
Here
Department of Civil Aviation
Phillips
DCA
Polish brothers missing after voyage to Melbourne
Fears grow for two Polish sailors, Piotr and Mieczyvilaw Eyamont, who are overdue in Melbourne aboard the 24 ft yacht Polonia after leaving the Canary Islands on 1 August. The experienced crew, who last year cruised the Atlantic to Miami, have a radio receiver but no transmission since.
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Mpelbourne
Melbourne
Piotr
Mieczyvilaw
Eyamont
Canary Islands
Cape Town
South Africa
Polonia
Miami
Potential seen for twin cities Albury Wodonga
The Albury and Wodonga twin centres show potential for industrial development. A state government consultant report says they could remove state road transport taxes, benefit from strong rail services and marshalling yards, and have sufficient water and electricity supplies. Both cities have ample skilled and unskilled workers and leisure facilities nearby.
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Sydney
Albury
Wodonga
British woman pilot stranded after radar failure near Sumbawa
Sheila Scott, 41, took off from Macassar on the Singapore to Darwin leg of the London Sydney air race but was forced to land on a small Sumbawa airstrip after radio failure. Two RAF escorts diverted from Singapore to guide her to Darwin. contact with the escort plane was later lost amid poor communications and monsoon weather.
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Djakarta
Sheila Scott
Macassar
South Sulawesi
Celebes
Darwin
Sumbawa
Associated Press
Indonesia
Royal Air Force
Miss Scott
J. T. Kingsley
Maumere
Flores Island
Lesser Sunda
Sulawesi
Singapore
Frm
Air Traffc
Miacassar
Timor
Kingsley
Evans
MLC Asar
Police reply to Dr Wainer on backyard abuse claim
The Chief of the 1B, Superintendent J Milner, said police believe the man claimed to have seen entering and leaving a backyard caborbionit was actually moving in a shop area. Dr Wainer said police failed to mind a backyard and he had given them a tip.
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J. Milner
Malvern
Raval
Prahun
Wainer
Attacks in Melbourne on Christmas Eve
Within four hours on Christmas Eve eight people were assaulted in Melbourne suburbs. Four victims were women including a 27 year old man stabbed in the thigh during an attack by three men. A police constable was assaulted during an attempted driver arrest and a man punched in his front garden while a woman was assaulted and robbed of 58 dollars.
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Melbourne
No decision from inquiry on abortions Milbourne
Sir Arthur Rylah the Chief Secretary said there would be no conclusive inquiry result yet into allegations police protected abortionists. He noted the Chief Commissioner of Police Welby could not fully investigate. The report referred to incidents at a rear lane laundrette with cars and couples, with doctors alleged but later described as unfounded.
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Chieef
Arthur Rylah
Can
Arthur Simul
Welby
Armation
Sir Arthur Sith
Ating
Murray
Dp Warner
Arthur Sail Due
Marion Tresser
Lon Wis
Mir Milner
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