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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jul 01, 1967
Page
4
A critical notice of Nabokov's Speak Memory describes the author’s forewords as self-protective, ironic, and pedantic. It traces the memoir from St Petersburg to St Nazaire, 1903 to 1940, and portrays Nabokov as a butterfly chasing nostalgist attempting to buy back time.
A new Bonhoeffer collected works volume, a symposium on his theology, and a life study are highlighted. The Way to Freedom gathers letters and notes from 1935 to 1939, while World Come of Age features essays by Barth Bethege and others. The Form of Christ in the World by John A Phillips also appears.
Review surveys J W Davidson's Evolution of Samoan State, praising its comprehensive, lucid account of Samoa's shift from Trust Territory to independent state. Notes Davidson's balanced yet partisan stance, focus on personalities like Sukuna, colonial dynamics, and the economy’s strain from population rise and limited exports. Also references Bonhoeffer and Christian thought tangentially in broader context.
Warracknabeal in the Victorian Wimmera sits on the mallee fringe. The book traces its 1840s cattle station roots, 1871 town layout and first school, peopled by farmers from SA and Victoria. It notes fencing, boundary riders, rabbits weakening pastoralists, and wheat beginning to dominate the land.
The rise of rail and irrigation spurred growth after 1886 with wheat farms turning to fat lambs dairying and Clydesdale horses. A bicycle factory opened in 1896, small cars by 1910, the first garage in 1912, and traffic rules in main street the same year. Postwar prosperity came from transport and aerial crop dusting, with vivid illustrations of wagons and horses. map and footnotes are lacking.
A discussion of the relationship between production and wages as a factor in national cohesion. J E Isaacs offers a comprehensive comparison of overseas theory with Australian conditions in the study Wages and Productivity.
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