New Year Honours List Highlights Diverse Brilliance
The honours celebrate writers, scholars, and community figures across nations. Damehoods include Agatha Christie and Sir Charles Fitzroy Maclean. first women elevated to the Order of the Bath. Australians receive OBEs and MBEs for dairy, governance, and community service, with Pam Kilborn adding an athletics landmark.
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Order of the Bath
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Omee
Atbara Garden
Queen Alexandra Royal Army Nursing Corps
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Kew
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Grange
NSW Agricultural Bureau
Stanley Carberry
Narrabri
Nsw
Bert Hill Beddie
Forbes
Pam Kilborn
Pam
Gladys Elphick
Ay Ter
Vieter Lek
Kent Town
Weather 1970 Described as Year of Contrasts in Canberra
The acting regional director of the Bureau of Meteorology Mr Ian Mason stated yesterday that 1970 featured notable meteorological contrasts in rainfall patterns around Canberra. The year showed varying rainfall across the region, reflecting a broader pattern of climatic extremes.
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Canberra
Bureau of Meteorology
Ian Mason
Aboriginal education pushes special courses in Territory schools
Aboriginal children increasingly attend community schools in the Northern Territory. A Commonwealth Territory and South Australian official committee advises on underprivileged students. The Education Department plans compensatory teaching and special teachers to improve outcomes in 1971.
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Northern Territory
Mather
J Schences
Commonwealth
Department of Education
Canberra
J. W. Mather
Rome
of Education News
Act
Uhh
Welfare Division
Aia Cammunity
Vane
Department of C Atteachas
Taaten Siemarta
Pr Marysiof
Katherine
Department of Education and Science
Northern ‘Territory Administration
Office of Aboriginal Affairs
Alice Springs
Territory
Floods Delay NSW Children’s Health Scheme Holiday Trip
Floods hindered 16 children from north west NSW reaching the Far West Children’s Health Scheme home for a three week break. About 142 other youngsters, many never having seen the sea, were able to start their holiday as planned.
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Sydney
Nsw
Far West
Ienty
Canberra Weather Record Breaks In A Year Of Extremes
Rainfall was notably uneven with July the driest on record and the year totaling 28.41 inches on 121 days, while spring brought high rains including a September record. The year featured a cloudiest September, sunniest Julys, 36 thunderstorm days, 107 frosts, and a May 6 earliest-record snowfall in Can verni, with temperatures swinging from 97.4F in February to 20F in August.
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Canberra
Fairburn
Diva
Canverni
Melbourne pop festival postponed after council ban
Melbourne's New Year's Eve pop festival, planned for Launching Place and later moved to St Kilda's big top, was banned by the St Kilda Council. Organiser Peter Andrews of Let it Be announced a February postponement after council opposition and a warning to police intervention. The council said permission was needed for a pop concert, not just circus use.
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Melbourne
St Kilda
Peter Andrews
Launching Place
Melhouine
Ashtons Circus
A.N. Issac
Ashtons
Andrews
Woman charged with murder in Ryde Court
Police prosecutor Sergeant N Parsons said Margaret May Barrett, 33, was charged with murdering her husband Rudge Perret 38 after allegedly dragging him into a bedroom, grabbing a rifle, and placing it to his head with his wife’s finger on the trigger. Hearing adjourned until March 1. Barrett released on $1,000 bail.
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N. Parsons
Ryde Court
Margaret May Barrett
Rudge Perret
Parsons
Barrett
Matt
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