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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jan 15, 1966
Page
5
A convention brings together clergy from at least 32 churches and arch organizations. Tas representatives join Inter-Church Aid Refugee and World Seaice of the Australian groups to discuss migrants and related aid efforts.
Canberra born Miss Margaret Piper sails to Sydney to join the Christian Education Department of the NSW Methodist Conference after completing a Master’s in Religious Education at the University of Tennessee on a Methodist Church of America scholarship. She hails from Forrest with WMCA Sydney training as a youth worker and comes from a long-standing National Memorial Methodist Church family.
Father John McMahon, Superior of the Sacred Heart Monastery in Canberra, departs at month end to become Provincial of the Order of the Sacred Heart in Sydney overseeing about two establishments across Australia and New Guinea. He will be succeeded by Rev Father M Dowiglas as Canberra Superior.
Miss Schmidt, an Estonia refugee who migrated in 1948, is bound for New Guinea. Longtime Commonwealth Bank employee in Canberra and Queanbeyan, she captained the bank's women's basketball team last year and is active in Scottish dancing and Lutheran youth work. She will join the Church of New Align headquarters as state secretary for NSW as she departs with the group.
The Anglican Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn says the General Synod will discuss prayer book revision and electing the Australian primate. Canberra concerns include the Inter Church Residential College at Australian National University and possible diocesan boundary revisions in northern Australia. Long service leave for clergy and a sabbatical form may be debated. Delegates from Canberra and Goulburn will be elected at the Diocesan Synod, with the meeting held in Canberra from August.
An Australian garden column discusses patient care and soil, noting water challenges in Canberra and Melbourne. It details garden woes, plant support methods, watering habits, and harvest timing for potatoes beans and tomatoes, urging prudent water use and practical staking tips.
A readable fragment lists church services across Canberra and suburbs including St Pauls, George Downe r Walton, All Saints Ainslie, Cross Valse-Hackett, St Whiles Dickson, St Thomas Mures Campbell, Mayes Wraddon, Braddon, and others. The garbled text shows mass times, confirmations, baptisms, and Sunday worship in multiple denominations.
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