Longtime Canberra Tourism Bureau worker retires after 35 years
Vene, a longtime Canberra tourism official who began with the Canberra Tourist Bureau in 1941, retires after 35 years in the industry. She recalls early Civic days, growth of the bureau into public service, and plans to travel, sketch, and enjoy music and the arts in retirement.
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Winten Vene Xiinge
Canberra
Ainslie
East Row
Alinga Street
Bureau
Vene
Albury
Bill Dunbar
Ausstralia
Canada
Switzerland
Austria
Tasmanian Packages to Counter Downturn
Tasmanian travel players including ANL Four Seasons Motor Inns and Avis Rent A Car launch low cost packages to counter national tourism decline. The Empress of Australia and budget tours cover Melbourne to Devonport with eight to nine day options, May to August and August to December periods, pricing from 316 to 364 for two people plus multi city stops in Hobart Launceston Scamander and the North West.
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Rnvet
TAA
Australian National’ Line
Empress of Australia
Motor Tins
Avis
Shest
ANL
Melbourne
Devonport
Motor Inns
Hobart
Port Ines
Arthur
Richmond
Tassie
Canberra
Four Seasons Motor Inns
Sussex Drive’s Historic Past Lives On in Ottawa
Sussex Drive once bustled with markets and hotels in the 1800s and early 1900s. Expropriation in 1961 preserved historic buildings now housing embassies, museums, and boutiques with modern interiors. Landmarks include Rideau Mall, Bytown Museum, Parliament views, and the Noon Day Gun firing daily at noon.
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Ottawa
Sussex Drive
Sussex
Canada
National Capital
Geological Survey of Canada
Asitique Notre-Dame D
Au Pour Aristique
AL Major
John By
Rideau Canal
Bytown
Attoss
John A. Macdonald
Western Australia appoints Graham MacKinnon Tourism Minister
Graham MacKinnon, new Minister for Tourism in Western Australia, has a long political career in the Legislative Council. Born in Bridgetown and resident in Bunbury, he has represented South West Province since 1956, served in AIF 1940 45, and held Health, Education, Fisheries and Wildlife, and Conservation portfolios before becoming Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council in 1974.
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NEW MI
Graham C. MacKinnon
Legislative Council
Western Australia
Bridgetown
South West
Bunbury
Mackinnon
AIF
South West Province
Legislative Counc
Fisheries
South African Indaba education sessions span Australia and New Zealand
A joint South African travel program brings together South African and Australia New Zealand speakers for an Indaba style session. Delegates include David Appleton, John Exson, Alan Hattle, and Bert van der Linden, with SA Airways and Air Adventure Tours among contributors. The tour stops in Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth starting tomorrow.
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Tor Saver
South Africa
New Zealand
Australi
Australia
David Appleton
Southern Sun Hotels
John Exson
Cape Town
Grovenot Tours
Alan Hattelt
Rennies Travel
Bert van der Linden
Comair
South African Airways
Akers
Thnt Bench International
Southern Africa Travel Service
Aveways Africa
Air Adventure Tours
Melbourne
Indibasa Australia
Spankety
Houlaston
Africa Discovery Club
Auckland
Sydney
Adelaide
Perth
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Canberra Times
Manuna Oval
Saga Skydiving
A.C.T. Society For Physically Handicapped Inc
California
Las Vegas
Mexico
Honolulu
Air New
Hawaii
USA
Sever
Klinge
Launceston
Scamander
West Coast
Government House
Chiawa
Sie
Queen Elizabeth
Gover
Travel
Michael Foster
War Museum
Royal Canadian Mint
Earnscliffe
Sir John A. Macdonald
la Hacienda
Peru
Chile
AL Dec-Vere
Siesta Cafe
Cafe la Guillotine
Giraffe
Tin House Court
Hlanore Fersy
Dominion Corinth Galleries Ltd
Wells Gallery
Uister
Omgapors
Mr MacKinnon
Gold Coast Rays
Singapore
Sydne
American Express Travel
Civic Permanent Centre
the Boulevard
Canberr
Holiday Isle
Tasmania
Tasmanian
Caliy Sweet
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