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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jan 10, 1970
Page
2
In Downer, Mr M. wrote to Voters' Voice after a shopkeeper refused to sell him a pint of milk. The clerk claimed old milk regulations blocked the sale then advised him to use the supermarket. The letter notes that retailers may choose not to sell and customers may pick where to shop, raising emergency purchase concerns.
Residents note no footpath from Red Hill Primary to Jansz Crescent Carstensz Street corner forcing children to walk along the street. NCDC says Jansz Crescent footpath included in 1970 71 works draft. Voters' Voice also reports sewerage rate confusion and explains rates apply to sewerage services, not lavatories.
Mr R of Lyneham urged a footpath from Lyneham High School to Barton Highway to improve pupil safety as traffic and parked cars narrowed Goodwin Street. The National Capital Development Commission confirmed a path exists elsewhere but no plans for Goodwin Street due to higher priorities.
A 21 year old barman, Barry Ian Hempel, was fined 100 after pleading guilty to driving under liquor influence, traveling at high speeds and colliding with a kerb in Limestone Avenue. David Fol Kelly faced charges of breaking and entering and theft of $52 from Narra Bundah residence, with psychiatric observation ordered. An army private Maxwell Campbell, 24, was fined 20 for four false pretences and ordered to reenter bond for 12 months. offences included obtaining money and goods by pretending cheques were genuine.
A knife-wielding thief and two companions slashed the throat of 49-year-old hotel owner Lloyd George Mayes in his Leigh public bar late Friday, then escaped with more than $700 from five tills. Mayes, hospitalized under sedation, was recovered with a jaw wound after two men struck him and another shielded a knife. His wife, Mrs Mayer, described the assault as she learned of the blood loss and danger to his neck artery.
In Sydney on Friday a hacksaw blade was found in a prison van transporting Darcy Dugan to court. Dugan and four co defendants face charges of assaulting and wounding Allan Moss at Bondi Junction on August 9 and robbing Grace Bros Pty Ltd of 42304. The hearing, with defence notes read by police, will continue Monday.
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