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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Dec 30, 1957
Page
3
A commuter bus veered off a road and plunged into the sea near Anil Bast, injuring several passengers. Rescue teams retrieved people from the wreck as authorities investigated the crash cause and water conditions.
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Wellington reports the New Zealand Antarctic Expedition led by Sir Edmund Hillary reached the point of no return about 250 miles from the South Pole. Fuel limits mean the party cannot return to Depot 700, but progressing slowly through heavy snow with 41 miles covered overnight. Dr. Vivian Fuchs of the British party signs via radio and could make contact. his team nears the Pole as Hillary remains about five marches away, weather improving.
Soviet statisticians, according to Tass news agency, claim seven library books for every Soviet citizen, a figure they say is far higher than in any bourgeois country. They do not specify how many are Communist textbooks.
CAPETOWN Sunday reports the Archbishop Dr Joost De Blank denounces the Native Urban Areas Act as a diabolical housing law breaking up native families. The bold criticism highlights social and political tensions in South Africa amid housing policy debate.
At Cairo a senior Afro-Asian conference committee debated forming a common market while opposing the European Common Market. Delegates from Indonesia Japan Ghana and others pressed for trusteeship paths independence and broad economic blocs. A seven point plan urged unity economic aid opposition to imperialism and a joint development fund.
A senior police officer calls the holiday road toll terrible carnage as alcohol and speeding drive the losses. Throughout New South Wales 12 died, Queensland 11, Victoria reports 22 in the past week with 500 injured, and country roads contributing 18 deaths. A Croydon head-on on Healesville Road kills Sergei Danistchenko. Fitzroy pedestrian Olive May Brown dies. Bittern man Frederick Greaves dies in a late Friday crash. Dandenong woman Elsie May Priest killed by bus. Tasmania records two deaths with today marking the fifth straight day without a fatal on Tasmanian roads.
New York based AP report states Hungary's Communist leaders issued a decree requiring certificates of good character from all government and related employees. Effective with the new year, the measure targets those hired since October 1956, amid the post suppression climate following the anti-Russian uprising.
Sir Hugh Foot the new British governor tours remote mountain villages at dawn with a 12 man entourage. Residents stare as horses pass through areas once scarred by killings and anti terror operations. This is his last major tour before leaving for London for talks with the U K government. A Greek Cypriot newspaper in Athens cites expectations that Britain may offer political concessions to resolve the Cyprus question.
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