Greene Not So Tough in Australia interview
Sir Hugh Carleton Greene BBC Director General relaxes by the pool in Sydney, defending BBC independence and pipeline to public opinion. He quips about headlines, critiques of his remarks, and notes his five day week, liberal RAC stance, and push for talent while recounting tensions with commercial channels.
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Sir Hugh Carleton Greene
BBC
Sir Hugh
ABC
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Mre Whitehouse
England
Australia
BAC
Britain
RAC
Sydney
Canberra advisory board tours tourist sites in six hour bus trip
The ACT Advisory Board members including Stephen Brown of the Department of the Interior conducted a six hour bus tour of Canberra visiting the Tourist Bureau and a Molonglo gas barbecue site. They delayed their 4.30pm meeting to later in the month, as fatigue set in. The piece also notes Canberra’s fortnightly bills and a public service payroll tangle with potential changes drawn out by Treasury, Sub-Treasury, and green salary determinations.
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Canberra
Tourist Bureau
Molongio
Massey Ferguson
Stephen Brown
Department of the Interior
Chamber of Commerce
Civic
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A. Milne
Chamber
Treasury
Rubbish tip plans stir Kent Street residents
Residents fear a new Deakin High School area rubbish tip will open mid March behind the Kent Street telephone exchange. The tip aims to fill a creek bed with waste over time to restore natural cover, with access road costs quoted at 58,000 by a Department of Interior adviser.
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Deakin High School
Kent Street
Department of Interior
Advisory Council
Hewitt tipped as next head of PM's aide team
Political reporting notes Mr C L S Hewitt, chairman of the Australian Universities Commission, is likely to be named secretary of the Prime Minister's Department in a reshuffle. He would replace Sir John Bunting who has led the department since 1959. Also mentioned is senior officer K W Jones possibly moving with Hewitt.
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Daily Telegraph
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Fleet Street
Maurice Green
Canberra
Macmillan
Britain
Cheshires
Garema Place
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Canberra Rex
CSIRO
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Australian Universities Commission
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Gorton
Hewitt
Treasury
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John
Mir K. W. Jones
Department of Education and Science
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Gortor
Act
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Thevan Council
Red Hill
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BHP Company
Raneris
Gener
NSW discusses rainmaking review and drought aid plans
Government officials will review the rainmaking question again tomorrow amid assertions no rainmaking attempts were profitable in the past month. The Department of the Interior cites a cloud-seeding feasibility tied to cloud formation and large pumping, with conditions linked to water supply needs in Queanbeyan and Monaro.
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Mawson Centre put back in development timetable
The National Capital Development Commission delayed the Mawson group shopping centre target to about 1971 to align with private-enterprise plans for Woden town centre at Phillip. Development of Woden Valley and Weston Creek areas is expected to progress slowly, with Mawson slated for eventual construction as population grows.
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Dickson
Wesata
Canberra
Rainmaking aircraft to stand by for ACT weather
The Department of the Interior asked CSIRO to have a specially equipped aircraft ready for cloud seeding in the ACT if conditions permit. A CSIRO spokesman said seeding with silver iodide could yield millions of tons of rain. Projects are under way in Victoria, NSW, WA and Tasmania, with March start in South Australia. The department also expects Queanbeyan to apply Canberra water restrictions Saturday night. Negotiations to supply Tantangara Reservoir water to Canberra near completion. Works Department is building a prefabricated pipe to move Tantangara water from the Murrumbidgee to Cotter Dam.
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J. R. Fraser
Canberra
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Rendora
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Tasmania
South Australia
Snowy Mountains
Department of Works
Murrumbidgee
Canberra man saves youth in surf at Broadbeach
Canberra resident C Fook of the Social Services Department saved a 19 year old youth from drowning off Broadbeach Queensland's coast. He entered the surf after the youth began to struggle, was swept out, and with two waves delivered them to shallow water where both rested before the youth thanked him and walked away.
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Brisbane
Queensland
C Coast
C. Fook
Social Sevices
Broadbeach
Fooks
Fonks
Fr Fooks
British rush to settle Sydney migration surge
The British migration push to Australia shows 14,988 Britons applying to migrate in the first three weeks of February, doubling figures from a year earlier. The third week alone saw 5,716 applications, the highest since early 1963, with European rates in January 1968 up 50 percent from January 1967, per Minister for Immigration Mr Snedden.
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Australia
Snedden
Australian Metal Industries Association Tonight
Europe
Sailor's Body Recovered After Drowning Near Beach
The drowned U S sailor Harold Russo 22 a boiler man from New Jersey was recovered today from the surf about 0 yards from the beach one mile south of his disappearance site. He had just completed six months duty in Vietnam.
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United States
Sairfers Paradise
Harold 5
Russo
New Jersey
Vietnam
Canberra Greens report fraud letters to police
Canberra residents named Green reported to Fraud Squad that letters from a Sydney address asked for 425 to claim a deceased estate. Police traced a Mr Green in Wagga and suspect wide distribution, with about 60 Canberrans affected and one case of a 25 payment. Detectives seek further recipients to contact Fraud Squad.
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Canberra
Sydney
Johnson
Victoria
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A. Green
Inj
Anyberra
J. C. Johnson
Yester-Partnership
Minister to study kid gloves claim in Vietnam clash
In Canberra the Minister for the Army Mr Fraser ordered an urgent report on criticisms by Lt Col E R Charlesworth of Australian pacification methods in Vietnam. Charlesworth said Australians were too soft while detailing village aid and a cordon of Hoa Long where casualties occurred. Fraser vowed to assess operation methods and noted room for improvement.
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Canberra
Associated Press
Charlesworth
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Linited Press International
Dewhurst
Hoa Long
Nui Dat
Theen
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