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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jul 31, 1956
Page
10
Fragmentary OCR text notes a train sale or listing with times and a juvenile delinquency reference. Readable items include 08 ways and 10 6 a.m. trait eye of Con delinquency. Details are unclear but imply a transport or sale event tied to a juvenile case. Names and places are not discernible.
Council members urged selling houses without deposits to speed sales and reduce maintenance costs. They argued current schemes trap buyers with deposits and high prices, noting maintenance bills of £177,000 for unsold homes and potential savings from selling half of the 1786 dwellings at an average £2570 each plus half the last year's maintenance.
The Soviet government ordered a new institute of Oriental languages at Moscow University. Students would be exchanged with Egypt, Communist China, India, Burma and North Vietnam, according to Tass.
Miss Adamson, Pre-School Officer for the Department of the Interior, leaves Canberra for a United States scholarship at the University of Merrylands to study for a B Sc in child development. The Canberra Pre-School Society lauds her six and a half years here noting growth from four play centres to fourteen.
Pilots of the Royal Australian Navy will fly the modern jet aircraft and Gannet anti-submarine planes from the new carrier Melbourne in a sea exercise off the Queensland coast between August 11 and September 6. The ship will become an active fleet unit after the tests. Senator O'Sullivan said the crew would fly the Ses enom jet fighters and Gannet planes, which had been tested in the English Channel and other locations. Since arriving in Australia the crew has conducted shore based interception, submarine hunting, and deck landing drills using newly devised yard deck techniques.
Hobart report details a widening postal workers strike in Tasmania affecting Hobart Launceston Burnie and Devonport with over 1000 workers involved. The Director of Posts and Telegraphs E C A Brown warned of serious impact as mail delays grow and overtime bans bite. In Hobart about 50 000 papers and parcels backed up and some afternoon deliveries halted.
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