Rail Crash Near Merredin Causes 500000 Damage
Damage estimated at more than 500000 occurred when an ore train derailed about three miles west of Merredin, 160 miles east of Perth, yesterday morning. Forty three wagons left the tracks, 30 of which telescoped into debris. Several thousand tons of iron ore were thrown clear as wagons piled up. No injuries were reported. Line repairs expected by Tuesday with about half the wagons likely to be scrapped.
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Perth
Merredin
Kalgewerke
J. A. Lalor
Ten Thousand Dollar Toorak Haul In Burglary Wave
A cat burglar linked to a string of Toorak thefts struck again last night stealing jewellery and silverware valued at about $10,000 from an empty Lansell Road house. The haul brings the total to nearly $100,000 as the thief forced a bedroom window and ripped a wall safe away with an axe while the occupant, director Kurt Baumeister, was away in Switzerland.
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Melbourne
Toorak
Lansell Road
Kurt Baumeister
Gtzerland
Sam
Mrs Howse Finishes Garden Task Amid Rose Shortage
In Downes Place 34 houses stand and Mrs Howse has 56 roses left to plant after yesterday’s 12 planted. Drought limits supply of pink Doris Downes roses named by Sir Alister Clarke of Bulla Victoria, hindering completion of her season’s task.
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Downes Place
Mrs Howse
Doris Downes
Alister Clarke
Bulla
Victoria
Howse
J. B. Howse
N. F. Millar
Gail Bates
Tanya Taglietti
Downes
Hughes
Army Medical Services
Outsider appointments blamed for Trade and Industry staffing
ACOA criticism targets Sir Alan Westerman's handling of the Secondary Industry Office. ACT Administrative and Clerical Officers Association says outside appointments dominate high level posts, highlighting delays in filling the director's position and questioning the efficiency of the office amid a broader public service exodus to private industry.
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Department of Trade and Industry
Commonwealth Public Service
Alan Westerman
Department of Trade
ACT
N. H. Buttler
Baumeister
Butler
Canberra
Secorda Indus
Public Service
Office of Secondary Industry
Robert Men
Inquiry on Bread Price Rise Pushed by Canberra Group
Consumers Inc plans to send a formal letter to the Commissioner for Trade Practices this week asking an inquiry into an agreement between bakers on the price rise of sliced bread in the ACT. The move cites section 35 of the Trade Practices Act 1965 66 and seeks to determine if the price fixing serves the public interest.
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Canberra Consumers Inc
Commissioner For Trade Practices
Berra Bakera
Act
Postal workers press for new salary deal in Sydney
Meeting on pay in Sydney Sunday as postal workers demand a new salary structure. Officials from unions will meet Public Service Board and Postmaster General in Canberra to discuss a new standard across federal and local government roles. Union executive J S Baker says metal trades are becoming a standard for technical and sub-professional areas and a new deal is needed to recruit and retain trained staff.
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Sydney
Public Service Board
Postmaster General's Department
Canberra
J. S& Baker
ACT Liberals push for more Federal MPs and Senators
Mr J W Seedman head of the Liberal advisory team in Canberra argues the ACT should have more representatives in Federal Parliament. He calls it desirable and constitutionally feasible as ACT officials had pressed since 1965, with proposals for two senators and two house members under possible north and south Lake Burley Griffin divisions.
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J. W. Seedman
Liberal Party
ACT
Fraser
House of Representatives
Lake Burley Griffin
Parents to urge ACT control of schools
Three members of the ACT Council of Parents and Citizens Associations will urge an independent education authority for the ACT at Campbell High School on Thursday. They are J Wooln Riddell president whose two children attend Canberra High School Hugh Waring a research officer and Ken Townley. Townley was on the Currie committee which found an independent authority was needed. Riddell said the NSW Department of Education could no longer serve ACT needs. Invitations were sent to parents and citizens groups Canberra ten days ago. The Campbell High School P and C Association was the first to reply.
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ACT Council of Parents and Citizens Associations
ACT
Campbell High School
J. Woon
Riddell
Canberra High School
Hugh Waring
Ken Townley
Townley
George Currie
Queensland
Western Australia
Canberra
NSW Department of Education
Currie Committee
Paren
Citizens Greare
Campbell High School Parents and Citizens Association
RAAF Officers Begin Indonesia Study Tour
Thirty three members and students of the RAAF Staff College in Canberra will depart tomorrow for a ten day study tour visiting Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Darwin. The trip follows an invitation extended by Air Chief Marshal Roesmin, Commander in Chief of the Indonesian Air Force.
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Raaf Staff College
Canberra
Indonesia
Papua New Guinea
Darwin
Roesmin
Air Force
ALP Warns It Will Oppose Tough Demonstration Law
ACT Advisory Council leader Gordon Walsh warned the federal government against any draft legislation restricting assembly and protest rights in the ACT. He urged council input and threatened opposition in both houses, blaming police over violence at recent demonstrations and noting past NSW police involvement in ACT unrest.
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ALP
ACT Advisory Council
Gordon Walsh
ACT
Gorton
Walsh
Interior
Advisory Council
Council
Arthur Rylah
Cut students pay and the Melbourne rioting debate
Victorian leaders clash over punishing student demonstrators with removal of government scholarships and allowances. Sir William Hall and Moss urge penalties for violence while Harding defends equal treatment and opposes blanket cuts. Police chief Rylah orders strong action after Thursday’s US consulate attack.
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Melbourne
The
RSL
William Hall
Bourne
Veonapiracy
William Hewitt
Hewitt
Faculty of Law Enforcement and Correction
Pennsylvania State University
Arthur Rylah
J. Arnold
Sir Arthur
Man Freed From Prison After Five Days For Demonstration
Michael Hamel-Green aged 23 from Carlton was released from Pentridge Gaol after five days for failing to pay a $10 fine imposed after a Canberra demonstration in May. He said he was treated fairly though lonely and that many prisoners supported his anti Vietnam war stand.
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Michael Hamel-Green
Carlton
Pentridge
Moore
Canberra
Cruiser towed into Coffs Harbour
The disabled 22ft cabin cruiser Fairsea was towed into Coffs Harbour after rough seas off the NSW North Coast. On board were Sydney residents Roy Sellers and Derek Fleming. They left Sydney for Tweed Heads last Tuesday, broke down Friday, and were found by the sugar vessel Harwood en route to the Clarence River. Both men are in reasonably good condition. Newcastle water police and aircraft searched Newcastle and Port Stephens without success.
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Brisbane
Fairsea
New South Wales
Coffs Harbour
Roy Sellers
Derek Fleming
Sydney
Tweed Heads
Harwood
Clarence River
Sellers
Fleming
Newcastle
Port Stephens
Residents protest haphazard refuse storage near Lyneham shops
Residents near Lyneham shopping centre protested yesterday against shopkeepers leaving papers and small cardboard boxes in a laneway behind shops. They called for proper containers for collection. a Department of Interior spokesman said the centre’s retailers must provide receptacles.
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Lyneham _ shopping centre
Carkenpe
Department of Interior
S. Totos
Delicatesgan
John Kozonis
Kozonis
Department of the Interior
Boy Rescued After Four Hour Drift At Sea Off South Coast
Steven Carne a Fairfield schoolboy was carried eight miles from Shellharbour after misadventure at sea. A 12ft disabled launch drifted during skin diving. He survived four hours as heavy seas and wind challenged rescue efforts. Alderman Tony Bevan led land and air search and spotted him near Rabbit Island Port Kembla.
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Wollongong
Steven Carne
Fairfield
Tony Bevan
Steven
Rabbit Island
Port Kembla
Winner of VC dies in Tasmania at 78
Hobart reports Stanley Robert McDougall, the last Tasmanian holder of the Victoria Cross, has died at North East Soldiers Memorial Hospital Scottsdale at age 78. A sergeant in the 48th Battalion in May 1918 he earned the VC for conspicuous bravery after charging a second enemy wave single handed, seizing a machine gun and firing from the hip. He had also received the Military Medal.
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Hobart
Tasmania
Stanley Robert McDougall
North-East Soldiers Memorial Hospital
Scottsdale
McDougall
Vandals desecrate Mary Church. damages listed
Vandals broke into Mary Roman Catholic Church in Hampton yesterday afternoon causing about 120 dollars in damage. Statues and religious objects were broken and scattered, the public address system damaged, and four microphones stolen.
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Melbourne
Mary Roman Catholic
Hampton
Motorised Cities talk at Canberra conference
English planning consultant and transport expert Professor Colin Buchanan will speak on The Motorised Cities of the Western World in Canberra on Thursday. He addresses the Australian Institute of Urban Studies first annual conference at the Academy of Science opened by Minister for Education and Science Mr Fraser.
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Packer
Ad Transport
Ka ‘Olege
London
Colin Buchanan
Canberra
Australian Institute of Urban Studies
Academy of Science
Education and Science
Fraser
City property fetches 1.3 million at Kings Cross sale
Two overseas companies bought a Kings Cross property for 1.3 million, the highest price paid outside Sydney's city centre, said a spokesman for L. J. Hooker Ltd. He noted a further 2 pees.
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Sydney
Kings Cross
L. J. Hooker Ltd
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