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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jun 13, 1964
Page
1
The Birthday Honours in Australia include former ministers and public figures awarded knighthoods and CBEs. Walter Murdoch becomes KCMG. Davidson and Cramer receive top orders. other honorees include medical leaders, educators, diplomats, and athletes with multiple titles across public service and culture.
Page 10 details principal awards in State honours for British sportsmen in the USK list and notable Australians. Recipients include Jan Dudley Hayward of Mitcham South Africa, chairman and managing director of John Martin & Co. Ltd, for outstanding community service. James Alexander Bisse of Croydon Vi, general manager of the British Phosphate Commission, cited for long services to the superphosphate industry. Richard Godfrey Christian Parry Okeden of Darling Point NSW, chairman and managing director of John Lysaght Aust Ltd, honoured for pioneering services to commerce and industry. Other honours details shown.
Wenner Introem was sentenced to life hard labour for selling defence secrets to Russia over 15 years. The court found Wenner guilty of receiving £140 from Soviet intelligence operatives. The case involved Colonel Stig and a network facilitating the covert transfer of state secrets.
Sir Robert Menzies was ordered to bed by doctors after a recurrence of abdominal trouble. The illness cancels his Israel visit and delays travel to America and Britain, with possible London and Washington meetings later next month and on June 23 respectively. He remains under observation in the Prime Minister's Lodge.
A devastating explosion and fire at a Dominican Republic military munitions dump in Santo Domingo caused four deaths and hundreds of injuries. Fires raged as explosions continued for hours, hospitals rushed casualties, and police blocked streets to prevent looting.
Forty thousand fans thronged the streets as the Beatles arrived from the airport in a two hundred car motorcade. Police guarded the open cars as the group toured toward the Town Hall amid screaming crowds. A 14 year old girl fainted in the rush and was nearly trampled. The two concerts proceeded amid loud ovations and steady security.
NSW floods expected to ease tomorrow with Bathurst hardest hit as 500 residents evacuated and losses up to £1 million. Prime Minister Menzies offers Commonwealth aid after NSW Premier Renshaw request. Hawkesbury and Nepean rivers show peaks and fall. authorities monitor Windsor and Richmond areas.
Contracts worth about £600000 awarded to Citra Australia Ltd and Leighton Contractors Ltd to develop around 1,200 residential blocks in Curtin and Lyons over the next two and a half years. Curtin will see 363 blocks funded at £232000 next year while Lyons involves 369 blocks and community centre services.
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