18 Jun 1957
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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jun 18, 1957
Page
1
A partial OCR fragment mentions a meet with names like Macy Ling and terms such as winner and race. The text is garbled, but hints at a competition outcome and participant identifiers. No clear event date, location, or full names are recoverable from the readable lines.
Discussion on shortening the work week, with Labour and union advocates arguing for a five week holiday proposal and extended rest periods. Kenny urges equal pay for women as a national priority, while prosecutions against firms for award breaches are to be reviewed. A dockyard inquiry is to be requested from ministers.
Delegates at a conference backed Joe Arthur for readmission to the ALP after prior expulsion. Arthur, a mine worker from Adamstown, faced a Royal Commission and appeals by the party and union leaders. He vows to serve the Labour Party again, while eleven other militants were also readmitted.
A dramatic cliff rescue at Port Noarlunga saved four boys aged 14 to 16 from a 100 to 200 foot cliff face. David John Robins Rodney James Lapidge Graham Bruce Beeld and Robert Cowell Waite were stranded for over two hours before Bob Waite, 43, used a rope tied to a car to lower himself to a ledge and bring them to safety one by one.
SYDNEY Monday a summons will probably be served on a man who allegedly dragged a dying dog at the back of his car at Rydalmere yesterday The man allegedly tried to hang the dog from a tree and then tied the rope to his car and drove off dragging the dog's body for more than a quarter of a mile The dog s body was later dumped on mangrove flats at Parramatta Police said they had contacted the man who claimed he killed the dog after it bit him
The New York Times lauds Prime Minister Macmillan for his reply to Soviet Premier Bulganin on disarmament. It credits him with providing satisfactory facts and suggests concrete steps could emerge at London talks if all nations face the truth. The paper stresses distrust of Soviet words and promises.
The Canberra Aero Club operates five aircraft for instruction and pleasure flying, including two Chipmunks and three Tiger Moths. A fourth Tiger Moth is in reserve awaiting conversion to civil aviation requirements. Club president J. Grant said active membership is 65 and expected to rise after recent interest from the Canberra Goulburn competition.
Weekend crashes across New South Wales claimed several lives with five fatalities in the country and four in Sydney. A dramatic rescue at Liverpool followed a crash into a concrete culvert as two men and two women were freed after more than half an hour. A motorcyclist died at Mount Druitt after being thrown 80 feet, and other deaths included a gas poisoning in Wagga, a falling tree at Nowra, and a Yugoslav migrant found dead in a hotel cellar soon to be flooded by a dam. Extra checks on unroadworthy vehicles and migrant deaths continued.
West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer told 160,000 former prisoners of war in Frankfurt that there will be no Russo West German trade talks in Moscow unless Soviet authorities agree to release Germans held there. He cited Bulganin and Khrushchev promising return of prisoners two years ago, underscoring freedom of POWs over trade.
Melbourne reports six road deaths in the Queen's Birthday weekend as a police blitz on careless driving continues. The toll is three more than today but four fewer than last year, with dozens of motorists booked.
ADELAIDE Monday reports five people killed on South Australian roads during the holiday weekend, including two boys. A five year old girl died from burns at Tallerm Bend when a kerosene lamp toppled and set fire to her dress.
Police tightened security as 285,000 voters pressed the second stage of Lebanon’s general elections. Telegraph links to Syria were cut, the Beirut–Damascus route was guarded, and bans on firearms licenses and alcohol sales were imposed to keep the four June voting days peaceful.
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