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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Dec 29, 1966
Page
5
NSW coal mines produced a higher total of raw coal in 1966 than the previous year according to a Joint Coal Board release. Exports to Japan and increased industrial use boosted consumption, with railways and gasworks shifting to diesel and electricity reducing internal demand.
A compact record from December 28 2006 shows categories including Insurance 1 67.05 under Finance 504.75 and Pastoral an. 23745 Transport 481.01 Trade and Services 443.92 Food Drink 148.43 and figures 173.94 166.93 504.89 247.48 450.51 with coded items FALN2 JR.16 17415.
Trading resumed with leaders Broken Hill Proprietary and Colonial Sugar Refining maintaining gains as the all ordinaries index rose to 324.99. Mining and industrial turnover fell while breweries, insurers, and newspapers led gains with Consolidated Press up 2.60 and Mercantile Mutual up 0.45 to 345.
Russia and China announced bumper 1966 grain harvests ending several lean years. The Soviet Union reported 17 million metric tons, up about 50 million tons from last year, according to Agriculture Minister Matakevich at a news conference with Soviet and foreign reporters.
The article notes Soviet grain imports rising despite a 1966 bumper harvest and forecasts continuing reliance on Canadian exports. It highlights Canada, the United States, Argentina, and Australia as major grain sources, with Chinese and Soviet demand shaping global trade. It also reports Freemantle welcoming the Waitara, a 11,000 ton Swedish cargo ship, first of 12 built, promising lower costs and faster turnaround.
Fragmentary OCR shows stock prices and figures with multiple misreads. Key items include mentions of prices around 52.38 and 79, plus references to exchange events and entities like Sydney and potential brokers and benchmarks, but the text is garbled and lacks coherent context or identifiable entities.
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