Embargo Sought on Wool Price by Victorian Union Leader
Mr W J Carberry of Apsley urged a export price embargo on wool to shield growers from the 10 to 22 percent drop in prices this season. He cited Japan Wool Importers Association buying 95 percent of 17 million bales in 1968 69 and urged federal action while noting precedents on iron ore and wood chips. The plan, to be discussed by the Victorian Farmers Union pastoral division in Melbourne, aims to provide interim relief without undermining broader marketing schemes.
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W. J. Carberry
Apsley
Carberry
Japan Wool Importers Association
Victorian Farmers' Union
Meljourne
Australia Day Message From Prime Minister Gorton
The Prime Minister described Australia Day as a special occasion with national significance. He noted Captain Cook's voyage 200 years ago and the later first settlement as the basis for the holiday, urging reflection on history and the challenges ahead.
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Gorton
Australia
Cook
Building a Nation for the Turn of the Century
A reflective call urges citizens to invest time thought and effort to build a materially rich nation offering self development to all and contributing to world welfare. It notes two centuries of progress and expresses confidence that the spirit of past builders will persist and accelerate progress.
RAAF Commander's Six Day Vietnam Tour Announced
The Judge Advocate General of the RAAF Air Vice-Marshal Helsham will begin a six day official tour of South Vietnam. He will visit RAAF bases at Phan Rang and Vung Tau and inspect the Ist ATF and Ist ALSG during the trip.
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RAAF
Helsham
South Vietnam
Air Force
Phan Rang
Vung Tau
Ist
ATF
Stormy winds shut Wee Jasper road as trees block path
Strong winds and a downpour felled multiple trees along the road to Careys Caves in the Wee Jasper area yesterday afternoon. Men, women and children worked with axes and saws to clear the debris while motorists waited on a single mile stretch between Wee Jasper and Burrinjuck.
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Jasper
Thomas Skewes
Cottage ordeal as armed prowler wounds youth at Point Peron
An armed prowler shot an 18 year old youth in the chest and terrorised a mother and 11 children for about two hours at a holiday cottage at Point Peron near Perth. Colin Matthews is in hospital with a single 22 rifle bullet. doctors plan surgery to remove it. The mother, Florence Jones, 34, described a tense night as the intruder forced the family to shelter while police later found the assailant had fled.
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Perth
Point Peron
Nils Jones
Canberra College Announces Courses In Agronomy And Veterinary Science
The Canberra Technical College will offer courses in animal physiology and elementary veterinary science, and in agronomy and farm management. Courses run 187 weeks on Wednesday evenings. The agronomy and farm management course starts in July with February enrolment. Sheep and Wool Certificate classes have begun and enrolment remains open.
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Canberra
Missing Francis James Believed Lost in Asia Tour
Mrs Francis James said she has not heard from her husband since he left for Europe and Asia last March. The Anglican publisher and Vietnam aid crusader was last reported near the Chinese border in October, with Australians who met a man they believed to be him noting his disappearance after crossing into Hong Kong.
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Sydney
Francis James
England
Vietnam
James
Europe
Asia
China
Hong Kong
Classified Advertisement Form for Canberra City
This Times Post advertisement form notes Canberra City 2601 and requires enclosing a cheque or postal order for the required number of lines at 25 cents per line per insertion.
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Canberra City
Interior will not mow neglected Canberra nature strips
The Department of the Interior will not assume mowing of neglected nature strips in Canberra. A spokesman said accepting maintenance would trigger a snowball of requests, high costs and 80 extra workers. Homeowners remain responsible for strips in front of their properties, with only Crown land adjacent to Commonwealth property maintained by the department. The department asks residents to keep up regular mowing to reduce fire hazard.
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Department of the Interior
Canberra
Parks and Gardens
Commonwealth
Four men dead in Bougainville landslide search
In Bougainville on Bougainville Island a three day search for four missing men at a road construction landslide was hampered by more rain. The District Commissioner said debris had been washed into the Pina River. The toll: four dead four missing and two injured.
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Port Moresby
Kieta
Bougainville Island
Bougainville
Des Ashton
Pina River
Solomon Islands may hold richer minerals than thought
British Solomon Islands may not be as poor as believed. On ABC’s In sight, former Geological Survey director John Grover argued substantial mineral research shows potential in nickel, copper, bauxite, gold and silver. He noted Mitsui and Utah Development are conducting exploratory work in the islands.
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British
Solomon Islands Protectorate
John Grover
Insight
Solomon Islands
Graver
Pacific
Solomons
Grover
Geological Survey
Fijiang
Mitsui and
Utah Development
Islands
Japanese forestry mission sails to Australia Papua New Guinea talks
A four man Japanese team led by Matasaburo Kinoshita boarded a mission to Australia to discuss forestry resources in the Australian Territory of Papua New Guinea with Australian government officials. The venture aims to start woodchip production for shipment to Japan from 1972.
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Tokyo
Aapreuter
Australia
Papua-New Guinea
Matasaburo ‘Kinoshita
Honshu Paper Manufacturing Company
New Guinea
Japan
Holiday crossword No 34
Holiday crossword No 34 presents two puzzles, a Crafty easy Quick Puzzle and a Cryptic, with clues and wordplay. Solutions to both puzzles will be published tomorrow.
Quick clues across puzzle hints and answers
A compact listing of crossword style clues with enumerations. Includes 4 across Skill seven letters and Undid six letters. 9 across Upper hand seven letters. 10 across Idle talk six letters. 11 across Engage six letters. 12 across Benevolence eight letters. 18 across Outer eight letters.
Director Appointed at Australian Institute of Urban Studies
The Australian Institute of Urban Studies names Derek Cartwright as director. Chairman Leslie M. Perrott said Cartwright accepted the post and will start in Canberra early March after tours of urban studies institutes in Canada the US and Britain. Cartwright trained as a lawyer town clerk and town planner with five years in Western Australia’s Town Planning Department. Gavin Walkley remains on the board after serving as acting director.
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The
Australian Institute of Urban Studies
Derek Cartwright
Gf Perth
Institute
Leslie M. Perrott
Cartwright
Canberra
Institutes of Urban Studies
Canada
Britain
King Edward VII School
University of the Witwatersrand
University of Toronto
Westen Australia
Gavin Walkley
Fears of ban ended at Darwin airport as union backs TWU
In Darwin on Saturday 18 Qantas employees signed to join the Transport Workers Union ending fears of further bans on international aircraft. Sydney and Darwin branches had imposed non union labour bans last week affecting Dar win services. Qantas and BOAC rerouted about 30 flights due to the dispute.
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Darwin
Qantas
Transport Workers Union
Sydney
BOAC
Cryptic clues and legal wordplay puzzle round
A compact cryptic puzzle list with clues like four fair game seven letters and others about invest maintain expressions in legal docs big cuts in fuel leisure and law matters. It hints at a themed wordplay set with several 6 to 8 letter answers and one 11 letter entry.
Across and Down Word Puzzle Mixed Clues Duet
A collage of crossword style clues and partial answers spans two grids. The entries include terms like Photo finish and Lead off with scattered garbled phrases and stray letters, suggesting a published puzzle page with multiple overlapping wordplay items.
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Greene
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