Local meet canceled amid weather delays
An athletics program reports a scheduled ground event canceled due to unspecified weather or facility issues. Event organizers note no make up date announced and advise athletes to monitor official notices.
04 Feb 1963
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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Feb 04, 1963
Page
1
An athletics program reports a scheduled ground event canceled due to unspecified weather or facility issues. Event organizers note no make up date announced and advise athletes to monitor official notices.
The Queen and Prince Philip sailed for New Zealand this afternoon after a tiring day in Suva. The Royal yacht Britannia moved out of Suva Harbour heading to Waitangi on the north coast, marking the first phase of their tour. The Queen appeared weary after a city visit and several ceremonies and an investiture.
Thousands of Fijians Indians Chinese and Europeans greeted the Royal party in Suva as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and Prince Philip arrived aboard Britannia and were welcomed with a traditional ceremony. The visit included a guards parade at Government House and a 14,000 student audience in Albert Park with ceremonial processions and a reception at the yacht moored off Suva.
Thirty seven BAAT planes will take part in a mass aerial salute over Camber airport as the royal couple arrive on February 18. The code named Royal Salute includes 18 Sabre jet fighters, 12 Canberra bombers, six Neptune reconnaissance craft and three Hercules transports. Neptunes lead, then Hercules, Canberra and Sabre formations, passing the airport 15 seconds apart. Aircraft drawn from Williamtown Amberley Townsville and Richmond squadrons.
Britain and Italy agreed that the Western European Union should preserve political and economic ties with Europe despite France’s veto. Macmillan and Fanfani discussed calling a meeting to discuss Brussels failure as The People warned of a possible worldwide trade war involving Britain.
A truck carrying 226 sheep overturns near St Andrew's Church on the plantation outside the town. Police say the wheels locked as it approached the corner causing the rollover. The driver Peter John Taylor was hospitalized but later discharged. Department workers retrieved the carcasses and herded surviving sheep to a vacant plot opposite the church as onlookers gathered.
Last week a one and a half inch naval shell was found on a Rose Bay verandah. Identified as fired from Sydney in a 1942 harbour raid, it had no explosive charge and detonators were harmless after being scooped. Major Waring warned the projectile was highly dangerous with no safety devices. Last year NSW army recovered nearly 10,000 wartime souvenirs on a no questions asked basis.
In Perth a doctor and a policeman swam the swollen river to aid Mrs Petert Kovacevich 82 of North Carnarvon bitten by a tiger snake on her husband’s plantation. An improvised raft from a shed door carried her to a waiting ambulance. She was taken to Carnarvon District Hospital in serious condition.
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