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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jan 11, 1957
Page
3
Mr. Harding said only a few bottles were affected but this was not confirmed until customers complained. Initially 100 gallons bottled for the Griffith run were thought adulterated. Police investigation found no substantiation of the allegations and details remain unpublished.
Donald David En, 28, and Anthony David Nash, 21, pleaded guilty to illegally using a motor lorry at Goulburn and stealing a car radio. En was jailed nine months for the offences. Nash received four months, suspended on a two year good behavior bond. Nash also must abstain from alcohol. The men are labourers from Ainslie.
Salvage crews reached Horse Shoe Reef in the Fiji Islands to attempt freeing the 70 ton Joyita trader which ran aground in January after vanishing crew and passengers in 1955. The vessel sits upright in three fathoms with one anchor chain intact as divers and engineers assess the hole and the risk of a difficult recovery.
In Melbourne a 36 year old woman Miss Jean Booth daughter of an Archbishop leapt to her death from the top floor of a William Street building. She fell 180 feet to the footpath near the main entrance, striking pedestrians. Police found shoes on the parapet and noted she had used an elevator to reach an upper floor earlier. Ill health is believed to have contributed to the tragedy.
Brisbane reports severe weather as an inland cyclone tracks toward North Queensland. Weather Bureau issued warnings from Rockhampton to Townsville as rain depression shifts east then west, threatening Bowen and surrounding districts with serious flooding.
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