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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jan 29, 1957
Page
4
In Brisbane on a rough seas day a woman watched her husband and son along with her father drown after they were thrown from a dinghy. The incident details a fatal drowning witnessed by the woman who saw the trio disappear into the waves.
A 20 member team of Australian doctors and medical researchers will travel to China for four weeks starting April 8. The delegation is led by neurologist Dr Leonard B. Cox with the Chinese Medical Association coordinating. Members include Sir Peter McCullum, Prof B Sunderland, Dr Frank Fenner, and Dr Edward Ford among others.
The article cites Zinc general manager urging new resources as incentives fade and mining become secondary. State secretary Mr Thompson of the Australasian Society of Engineers argues management must sell incentives to their workers, citing Holden productivity as a context.
A plane in Wagga experienced engine failure and circled over a lake before heading toward Campbell Avenue. Holiday crowds fled for shelter as Watts was struck in the forehead by debris and the aircraft crashed into a pole damaging the right wing.
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