Riding for a fall ends in embarrassing moment
Gary Prior of Jindabyne experiences an embarrassing moment when he is thrown by a wild-eyed mare during the open race or event.
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Gary Prior
Jindabyne
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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jan 29, 1968
Page
7
Prawn crew stranded as cyclone hits Gulf coast
Four men from the Maroochy Star trapped on South Bountiful Island after Cyclone Dixie. Santa Maria sails at first light to reach them. all are Ayr, Queensland residents. Supplies dropped, Burketown suffers isolation and weather damage. Adelaide reports floods isolating central towns with airlifted food.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brisbane
South Bountiful Island
Gulf of Carpentaria
Santa Maria
Karumba
Gulf
Eyelone Dixie
Cas
Jack Perry
Vic Collinson
Ployd Goode
Reg Best
Ayr
Northern
Queensland
Dixie
Burketown
Korean War adoptee seeks permanent Australian refuge
At the Awaif national conference in Canberra, RSL president A G W Keys announced approval for Choi Yung Kit, 33, a Korean War orphan adopted by the Royal Australian Regiment, to immigrate to Australia. The Korea and East Asian Forces Association funded his early education and he earned a Seoul University economics degree. A Korean Embassy spokesman in Canberra noted few Koreans have settled in Australia, mostly Koreans who married Australian servicemen during the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Awaif
Royal Australian Regiment
Korea
Australia
Canberra
Returned Services League
A. G. W. Keys
Choi Yung Kit
Kit
University of Seoul
CSIRO tests flea to spread myxomatosis in rabbits
Australian scientists announce field testing with the European rabbit flea as a potential carrier for the myxomatosis virus. Tests in quarantine show the flea targets rabbits and dies without a host, aiming to provide a year round spread method where mosquitoes are inactive. Talks to decide field test sites to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CSIRO
Fraser
Canberra
Animal Genetics
Sydney
Animal Genetics and Wildlife Research
State Departments of Agriculture
Icsiro
Australia
England
Record Triplets Born At Bankstown Hospital Set A Pace
Sydney Sunday Bankstown Hospital reports a record six babies born in two hours, two sets of triplets both boys to Mrs John Natsis of Canterbury Road Punchbowl and Mrs Colin Carter of Valencia Street Greenacre. First Natsis triplet at 9.48am followed by two more within eight minutes. Carter triplets arrived about an hour later. Six infants weigh 4b 1002 to 1lb 4oz and all are doing well. family already has two children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Bankstown Hospital
John Natsis
Canterbury Road
Punchbowl
Colin Carter
Valencia Street
Greenacre
Natsis
Carter
Australian Native Association official refuses toast to State Parliaments
Hugh Henshaw of the Australian Natives Association balked at proposing a toast to State Parliaments at an Australia Day event in Melbourne. He would be hypocritical he said, since he did not see the need for State governments. The move provoked sharp criticism from ANA leaders who called the refusal irresponsible and idiotic. The association's board will meet Wednesday to consider disciplinary action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melbourne
Hugh Henshaw
The
Australian Natives Association
Association
TV host Don Lane replaced on Tonight show
Sydney report says Don Lane of TCN-8 was temporarily replaced by radio announcer Bob Rogers after Lane was charged Friday night with cannabis possession. He remains on $500 bail awaiting appearance in the Special Federal Court on Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Don Lane
TCN-8
Bob Rogers
Lane
Ceasion
Australians Die in Vietnam Clashes Near Nui Dat
Three Australian soldiers were killed and 16 wounded in 48 hours of fighting with Vietcong units near Nui Dat. Among the dead are Corporal Graham Leonard Norley and Privates Dayle Morrison and Raymond Binning. a New Zealand corporal, George Kingi Hoerara, also died. Another New Zealand serviceman was wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nui Dat
Graham Leonard Norley
Kilburn
South Australia
New Zealand
George Kingi Hoerara
Gisborne
Casualty list from Canberra and Wellington reports
Army authorities published casualty lists in Canberra and Wellington last night with few incident details. Wounded are at Long Binh in two US evacuation hospitals. names include C Paul Stromeki 20 Petersham NSW and Private Kevin Magnay 22 Casino NSW among many others from Australia and New Zealand with varied injury statuses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canberra
Wellington
United States
Long Binh
Paul Stromeki
Petersham
Nsw
7Th Battalion
Jopher Nell Wagner
Wentworthville
Kevin James Magnay
National Serviceman
Casino
Barry George
Perth blasts convoy off North Vietnam in patrol action
The Australian guided missile destroyer Perth, with the US 7th Fleet, pounded a Vietnamese road convoy and struck three bridges and a truck park off North Vietnam yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saigon
Perth
North Vietnam
Hunt for armed fugitive in swampland near Auckland
Police intensified a search for 20 year old fugitive David Maxwell Heron after he was sighted, linked to a fatal shooting on Thursday night. The case began Friday with share milker Francis John Pyatt shot in his bath at his Tara home, wife assaulted, as authorities pursue the suspect across swampy terrain 100 miles south of Auckland. The other items describe unrelated naval actions near Dong Hoi and North Vietnam during Operation Sea Dragon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Maxwell Heron
Francis John Pyatt
Tara
Auckland
Pyatts
Yass Plans River Playground and Dam Increase
Yass Municipal Council will study a river area development proposed by Mayor Alderman Dobbin. Ideas include widening and deepening the river behind the old railway weir to create a riverfront playground, picnic areas, and camping grounds, plus a three foot dam height rise to boost storage by about a third and reduce water shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yass
Dobbin
Holden introduces V8 option in new HK First range
Motoring editor Leonard Ward reports General Motors Holden’s new HK range adds a 5-litre V8 delivering 210 bhp and available as an option at $510 above the 114 bhp six. Range includes 126 and 145 bhp engines, wider track, longer wheelbase, revised weight distribution, and safety upgrades. Prices span $2,215 to $2,941 with multiple transmissions and optional features.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melbourne
Holden
Australia
General Motors
Australia Day honour for an ancestor
Sydney report on the First Fleet landfall dispute between Captain Arthur Phillip and Henry Kable. The piece notes 200 descendants of Henry and Susannah Kable picnicked at Windsor on Hawkesbury River and 115 attended a reunion dinner marking 1788.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Nsw
Arthur Phillip
Henry Kable
Kable
Prithip
Henry
Susannah Kable
Hawkesbury River
Windsor
Lively Lady Heads for Bluff Harbour
British yachtsman Alec Rose, 59, aboard the 36 foot Lively Lady, encounters equipment failure in a gale off New Zealand. The mainsail and jib fell overboard, forcing him to drag rigging inboard while steering toward Bluff Harbour. Rose began voyage from Portsmouth July last year toward Melbourne and Cape Horn, aiming to return via New Zealand and the Roaring Forties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Invercargill
Alec Rose
Bluff Harbour
New Zealand
Mr Rose
I. Bird
Captain Bird
Rose
Portsmouth
England
Melbourne
Cape Horn
Caps
Nuclear energy best uses power generation says Knight
Sydney Sunday report quotes Australian A D Knight first inspector general of the International Energy Agency. He argues atomic energy will mainly supply electricity as reactors reach 10 000 megawatts now and rise to 10000 by 1975 and 300000 by 1980. He warns 1980 material could yield at least 10 bombs daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
International Energy Agency
A.D. Knight
ABC
Knight
Train Derails Block Adelaide Melbourne Line Near Murray Bridge
Thirty two of a 45 truck goods train derailed near Murray Bridge blocking the single line for over 24 hours. Trucks were scattered and sleepers crushed while the crew were unharmed. Passengers for the Overland to Adelaide were bused to Tailem Bend to continue the journey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adelaide
Murray Bridge
Melbourne
Tailem Bend
Deaconess Martha Morris Named Tasmania's First Woman Elder
Miss Martha Morris of Scots Church Hobart was today proclaimed Tasmania's first woman elder in the Presbyterian Church. Born in New South Wales, she trained at Rolland House to serve as deaconess and has worked with the Sam in Mort Mehery ess ay Mr Fairbairn said he was pleased Hobart about ten years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hobart
Martha Morris
Scots Church
Tasmania
Presbyterian Church
New South Wales
Kosciusko roads agreement reached between governments
The Federal and NSW Governments reached an agreement on operating and maintaining key roads in Kosciuszko National Park. Effective April 1 the NSW Government will handle roads and the Federal Government will provide annual reimbursements for 20 years. The Alpine Way remains open this winter as the 60 mile link between NSW and Victoria snowfields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal
Nsw
Kosciusko National Park
Fairbairn
Snowy Mountains
Jyndabyne
Mr Lewis
Jindabyne
Wyi
Victorian
Lewis
Monaro
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Dayle William Morrison
Auchenflower
Raymond Paul Binning
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Naval Base
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Trar
Leslie John Noel Barnett
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IRAR
Gordon Alexander Minck
Blackburn South
Victoria
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Innes i
Ander Bessant
Redcliffe
Eric Charles Pearson
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Whaiuie-motu
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My Track
My Hoa
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Bordeln
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D. Dunlop
Dianella
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