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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jul 01, 1961
Page
5
The market shows a mixed response as the credit squeeze eases yet the share index slides 0.7 as profits fall. C.S.R. slips to £78 while several issues rise including I.C.I. and Cr. Gases with a firmer finish.
A long OCR list shows rising and falling prices for numerous companies and commodities. It notes declines in several entries and highlights final figures for Aust. Bank and other major institutions, with various per cent notes and new prices.
The Commonwealth Arbitration Commission will announce its ruling on the 1961 wages hours case in Sydney at 10.30 a.m. next Tuesday. The unions seek an average 2/12 basic wage rise plus quarterly cost of living adjustments. employers seek a 42 hour week with proportionate rises for extra hours.
More than 100 people will visit Canberra from July 27 to 29 for an insurance convention at the Academy of Science. Delegates will discuss policies as more than £30 million worth of assurance policies are being sold.
Tikos, a 57 year old Hungarian, was found guilty of murdering Jaroslav Patetl at a Czech care home last April 4. He claimed the shooting was an accident during a struggle for a shotgun. The state may commute the sentence to long term imprisonment.
George William Mapstone, 23, cleaner of Stuart Flats Griffith, is charged with resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer. He pleads not guilty. Mapstone accused Detective Constable G E Kent of striking him on June 24 during an attempted arrest. He described a sequence involving Constables Morris and Carveth and a utility truck. Medico details showed contusions to the left ear, left thigh and wrists. Hearing resumes Monday with J D Donahue for Mapstone and A Watson for the CrownProsecutor.
The Licensing Court refused to renew the Sydney Journalists' Club liquor licence in a test case that could affect hundreds of NSW clubs. Police alleged the club was not governed by a true majority of its members. The licence expired today and the club will appeal the decision claiming conduct in good faith but unequal voting rights.
A 24 year old boy named Geoffrey Hall of Narrabundah on Eighteenth Street swallowed cresoline and burned his mouth. He was treated for facial and hand burns and released from hospital.
Principal prizes listed for Tattersalls Lottery 784 with numerous syndicates and winners across Australia and New Zealand. Names and addresses include W Dyes Burwood, D Stretton Hurstville, J W Sheil Marrickville, and others in Sydney metro and Hobart regions. Additional prize amounts and ticket numbers appear among mixed entries and tasmanian consignments.
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