Viscount Chandos Predicts Cheap Power From Sea Water
Viscount Chandos, former U.K. Board of Trade president and head of Associated Electrical Industries, arrived in Australia and New Zealand to tour. He said thermo SANtomic removal could harness vast power from sea water and that Britain would boost prestige and contribute to nuclear technique interchange. He predicted industrial use within about ten years, not twenty, and emphasized wide regional development benefits.
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Australia
Sputnik
Britain
Canberra Fails to Mark Australia Day Arouse Call
Canberra observed Australia Day with scant recognition despite the national holiday 170 years since the first settlement. Th K V Newman of the Returned Services League urged creation of an Australia Day Council, noting minimal flag displays and greater respect from foreign embassies and other cities.
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Australia
Parliament House
Returned Servicemen’s ‘League
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Canberra
Newman
Tomb Opened To Investigate Royal Murder
Atomic age science may help solve a sixteenth century Swedish royal murder. King Erik XIV’s tomb in Västerås Cathedral was opened after 161 years. his remains lie in a wooden coffin before being moved to a copper coffin with his monogram. Examinations will test for poison using X-ray and radiation in an atomic reactor. The body is to be re interred.
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Erik
Sweden
Vaesterrna
John
Speaker to Visit Ceylon on Independence Anniversary
The Speaker of the House of Representatives Senator McLeay will visit Ceylon for the tenth anniversary of its independence next month. He will depart with his wife and an accompanying delegation, traveling from Australia by the following Thursday.
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Menzies to open Lucas Heights reactor in April
Prime Minister Menzies will officially open the Lucas Heights atomic reactor in April, with Senator Spooner confirming after tests by chief scientist C N Watson Munro that the reactor operated as calculated.
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Sydney
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National Development
Spooner
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Melanesian Federation Seen As Premature
The minister argued that most of New Guinea's population has not attained self government, making a United States of Melanesia premature. He cited international politics as a central obstacle and warned against rushing federation while noting unresolved territorial and governance questions.
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Hasluck
Australian I Institute of Political Science
United States
Melanesia
West New Guinea
J. R. Kerr
Sydney
J. Anderson
Sydney University
Australia
Andrews
United States of Melanesia
Jeover
Bolomon [Islands
New Hebriides
Land Syndicate Resignations From Esperance Plains Board
Fern, mongay amr, R Ainslie and Mr J M Groom resign from the board of Esperance Plains (Aust) Pty Ltd, a Chase Syndicate venture formed in 1956 to develop 1 5 million acres near Esperance. They were the sole WA members. remaining directors include Allan Chase, Arthur Linkletter, and J A Gunn. The firm signed a 1956 agreement with the State Government to develop the Esperance area amid a setback from a bad season last year. Chase visited Esperance recently and said development was ahead of schedule.
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Arthur Linkletter
J. AL Gunn
Queensland
Australian Meat Board
Commonwealth
Esperance Plains Company
Esperance
Drowning at church picnic on Hacking River
A six year old child Geoffrey Hazelhurst of Mountford Avenue Guildford Hazelhurst drowned while being towed by a boat at a church youth picnic on the Hacking River in National Park. He slipped from the boat as he attempted to lean over the side and disappeared in 12 feet of water. A park ranger later recovered the body.
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National Park
Geoffrey Hazelhurst
Mountford Avenue
Guildford
Hazelhurst
Macmillan Gains Public Touch In India Revelation
The Daily Mail’s political correspondant reports that Prime Minister Macmillan shed his aloof image in New Delhi. Nehru urged him to wave to cheering crowds, sparking a perception that he may start engaging more with the people upon returning home.
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Daily Mail
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New Zealand
India
New Delhi
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Britain
Red Science Triumph in Moscow Signals Mini Computer Breakthrough
MOSCOW Monday Russia claimed another scientific milepost with the MN-10 a miniature electronic computer weighing about 100 pounds and capable of solving in seconds problems that would take a mathematician a month. Using transistors instead of vacuum tubes the MN-10 is half the size of a desk and can be scaled with multiple units to handle more complex calculations.
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