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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jul 25, 1957
Page
18
Mrs. Dick, widow of Captain Kidd, shows three maps with a master plan of buried treasure. She says 1701 valuation was £120000 and the haul may now be around £1000000, with about £14000 already dug up, and she has refused hundreds of offers. She seeks a genuine adventurer to sail to the South China Sea to recover the treasure.
George Joseph Stevens aged 29 with no fixed abode was fined £5 after pleading guilty to using indecent language in the public bar of the Hotel Canberra. Constable R M Allen said Stevens had a long record, with convictions nearly every month since 1951.
The Shah of Persia told the Persian Senate plans to expand the oil industry to meet Western Europe's growth and to make Persia the largest oil producer in the East. He noted the first Persian tanker of 32 000 tons has been launched and more tankers are built toward a 500 000 ton fleet in 10 years. The Senate is expected to fast track an oil bill authorising the National Iranian Oil Company to negotiate with Italian and other firms developing new oil fields.
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