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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jan 29, 1936
Page
4
Steps to preserve the birth place of Sir Henry Parkes at Canley Coventry and lay out surrounding land as a memorial are underway. A Coventry councillor who owns the land recently visited Australia and discussed the project. Funds are expected to come from Australian sources.
Secret flood protection for the Bank of England vaults houses over 150 million pounds in gold. The massive upgrade, spanning a decade, uses all welded steel girders and dual keys to seal bulletproof vaults guarded by firemen, guards, and detectives around the clock.
An obscure note reports a Shakespearean jobs group fined and placed on record amid a marked sale of stem pen materials. The item references Australia and centers on Martea and Cente, with unclear dates and some garbled names.
Report describes Tibetan belief in a boy born near the Dalai Lama's death as the reincarnation. A selected child undergoes tests including a moon-shaped mark on the shoulder and is raised by prelates for the office. The Dalai Lama blesses followers, and noble status passes to surviving kin.
The Canberra Amateur Swimming Club will hold a mid week carnival at the Swimming Pool tonight with a detailed programme including 400 yards women's freestyle, mixed handicaps for under 6, 12, 14, and 16, 100 yards men and women handicaps, a 200 yards medley relay, water polo, and diving events. At Hume Park on Anniversary Day Mr. C Tucker of Canberra won the Half-mile River Race by two lengths, receiving a cup from the Yass Swimming Club, with Mr. Tate of Yass second.
Melbourne police describe a springtime service station robbery at Queen's Bridge where two masked men forced attendants to submit, gagged them, rifled the till, and one pistol fired to silence while another supplied petrol to a motorist. £2 was in the till.
A brief card notes the involvement of World Service with special sources of information and mentions rights reserved in the compilation of overwars intelligence and related material.
The article lists world records and famous sites including the largest library in Paris with massive 7 million volume books, Washington DC's tallest monument, a coal mine near Lambert, Belgium at 3500 feet deep, a large monolith in Egypt, and a major university in Oxford founded around 1080. It notes Damascus as an ancient city and mentions a costly Hebrew Bible copy valued by the German government at £25,100.
Malcolm Campbell, riding the Blue Bird Dunlop on Utah’s Bonneville salt lake, says film from mounted speedometer cameras shows the 12 mile run could have reached higher speeds. He notes the 12 cylinder motor peaked near 30,431 mph and frames the test as crucial to improving control and handling.
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