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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jan 19, 1957
Page
2
Office showroom space 2 500 sq ft up stairs in Civic Centre for 3 weeks from February 24 with reasonable rent. Furnished 2 bedroom all electric. Reply 5004 Times Office Bold Resolve Austinmer South Coast. Burnished flat sought for six to eight months by quiet respectable couple with two children. Reply Box 4865 Times.
A scanned local page shows a weather section with winds and temperatures at Fairbairn and Hobart plus sunrise and sunset times. The rest includes obituaries and engagements listing Riley nee Mattinson in Auckland and engagement notices for Margaret Nivelles to Maxwell John, plus family thanks and memoriam notices for Reedy and Reed.
Community thanks for help on Tee Gardens property in Ginnliderra and mentions of offers of stock. Scholarship notice from University of Melbourne advertises tenable year at Bureau of Highway Engineering with deadlines and application details. Canberra Rugby League Club announces annual general meeting on February 1 1957 with next notices forthcoming. Local services advertise optometrist visits, tuning services, and enrolment for boarders and day pupils with prospectus available from The Principal in Goulburn.
The Optometrist Jumer Scouts will visit Canberra on Thursday Friday and Saturday January 24 25 26 offering eye tests and new spectacles in the Optical Room. Appointments via X1146 or at Davies Pharmacy Kingston. Vacuum chimney sweeping service advertised with quick efficient service and no meal dust. Phone U8680.
Public notices list items reported lost or missing including a doll from a pram at 3 Grey Street and a grey half Persian cat with a reward near Ovens Street Kingston. Occasional items mention a large striped towel near Vic nity Baths and a reply line to Towel in Kingston News agency.
Enrolments for Arts Economics and Commerce and Law courses are now being received with lectures arranged by subject on enrolment and fee payment due by February 12 1957. Full time students should enrol and pay by that date for daytime lectures. Special courses include Preliminary Latin Greek German statistics Indonesian Oriental Civilisation and Social Psychology and must enrol promptly.
A notice invites offers for surplus quantity including tinned foods bacon beef stock beet and vegetable carrots and cream wooden derrick hand operated. Inspections at Kingston works department yard. Closed bids due by 1 pm Tuesday January 27 1957 to the Director of Works.
The Interior Department invites sealed bids until 2 p m Tuesday January 22 1957 for cleansing about 220 acres of land in Compartment 171 to 1M drawing Plantations Canberra. Offers marked Tender Box Office or sent to the Secretary Dept of the Interior Canberra. Further particulars and specifications available from Forester Sinn Forest. No offer guaranteed accepted.
The Department of the Interior announces tender offers to prune about 112 acres within Pine Plantation blocks 31 32 33 and 3 at Acton. Bids must be sealed and marked Brtonile and received by 2 p.m. on January 22 1957 at the Canberra office. Further details available from the Forestry Officer Acton.
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