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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jan 28, 1958
Page
11
The forecast calls for very warm humid conditions with possible rain and thunderstorms across Canberra region and South Coast. Temperatures show Canberra max 95 min 57, Sydney 72, Melbourne 67, Brisbane 85, with southeast winds and slight seas. Also reports of births and an engagement in local notices.
Enrolment for five year olds listed for Boys on Wednesday 29 Tan and Girls on Thursday 30 January under Mistress R Blanchard. Also notices promoting car greasing at Driver and Co Fyshwick with daily service 8 am to 8 pm and contact X2279. Canberra Orchestral Society rehearsals relocated to Hut 7 Riverside every Tuesday at 7 30 pm. Final selection for March concerts on February 4. Secretary Box 151 Kingston invites new players.
Telopea Park High School classes resume today for year seven to year nine pupils. A statement was prepared and copies distributed to primary schools for parent notice. Progress on the new wing continues with a hoped handover in weeks. The vacation saw upgrades to bus and equipment, new furniture installed, and the building painted in glacier grey, primrose and white. A modern canteen is nearing completion and will open when ready. Public notices mention clothes care and labeled garments for National Council of Women. Canberra Royals BUC announces an annual general meeting at Riverside Recreation Hut on Thursday night, January 31 at 7:30 p.m.
Applicants entering the General Nursing course starting June 26, 1958, must have their applications judged on or before March 16, 1958. Application forms and brochures with information are available from Mrs J Guy.
The department announces a plan to cut press facilities to meet demand for more transmission hours by January 31. It states the aim is not to hinder information flow and that the international telecommunication system for public correspondence will strive to lessen the inconvenience caused by conveying news abroad.
Six French soldiers and a driver escorting a railway locomotive were killed when the train hit a mine southeast of Algiers. Three more soldiers were seriously injured. In a separate attack, five soldiers were killed and two wounded in a firefight.
Daswin reports from Monday that the Methodist Mission Bay in northeast Arnhem Land seeks to relocate stranded seamen from a 40 ft lugger drifting 1,300 miles away. The Indonesians aboard face expense and strain on mission supplies, with replenishment requiring a lengthy lugger trip from Perth.
Public guidance urges control measures for fruit fly on bearing fruit trees. Obligations apply to owners or occupiers of premises with fruit trees and may require destruction of infected fruit and fallen fruit. Recommended control uses poison bait spray mixtures including emetic solution or DDT and nicotine sulfate preparations.
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