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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jan 21, 1958
Page
3
A garbled OCR snippet references incidents including a religious service for a daughter, a gravesite, and legal actions. Mentions of a boating matter, fines for liquor, unlicensed driving, and river vicinity events appear, with numerous incomplete names and places. The fragment lacks coherent structure or clear single event.
On site at Mt Telopea Park School carpenters and plasterers clash over tile work. The Plasterers' Union claims carpenters must handle tile setting and ceiling work. Arbitral hearings led by G. A. Findlay are expected to proceed.
Japanese Foreign Minister A Fujiyama arrived to sign the Thdanesian Japanese peace treaty and war reparations agreement. He said the treaties would remove stamping blocks between the two countries.
Canberra Anglers' Association completed the third round of the 1957-58 championship on the Umeralla River and Murrumbidgee reach. Despite gale winds, fly fishermen led with best catches, live bait yielded modest results, and Boag topped the day in the fly section with 16 points while R Squires led artificial lure scoring.
Scottish police in Lanarkshire say a man was paid 500 pounds to commit murder. The Daily Sketch reports officials expect to convict him for four unsolved killings within a week. Victims include Anne Kneilands, 17, battered at East Kilbride Golf Course on January 4, and Marion Watt, her daughter Vivienne, and Merzaret Brown, found shot in High Burnside in September 1956.
Darwin reports astonishing endurance of Australian aborigines under cold in a refrigerated van. Alice Springs natives slept through 30 degree weather while clothed whites suffered. Tests by American, Australian and Norwegian scientists led by Dr. H. T. Hammel of the University of Pennsylvania. Australian team member Dr. B. H. Le Messurier from Adelaide University participated.
In Oran French sources say a 150 ton cargo of arms taken from the Yugoslav freighter Slovenia was destined for the Algerian Insurgent National Liberation Front. Intercepted off the Algerian coast the ship was directed to Oran and six thousand army pieces were seized.
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