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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jun 26, 1973
Page
2
The Canberra YWCA hosts a winter card party at Ainslie Hall on Monday afternoon. A hot lunch will be served and funds raised support the Belconnen building fund to supply premises for the YWCA in Belconnen. Tickets are listed for Lady Randall and Lady Heydon.
Looking back over 46 years, Mrs Bert Yeend recalls Canberra's birth as a public project from Melbourne in 1927. The Yeends arrived with three children, selecting a brick house in Barton and shaping life amid bushland and slow growth, noting first house numbers, lighting, and local schooling as the city began to form around them.
Mrs Yeend recalls life in Canberra and Kingston where she founded the Young Work League at the Baptist Church. She describes neighbors packing up, walking to work, and evenings with friends, plus family moments, a 198 birthday dinner at the Canberra Rex Hotel, and memories of Bert Hinkler’s Gipsy Moth landing at York Park.
The Diabetes Association of the ACT holds a general meeting on Thursday in the conference room at Canberra Hospital. Guest speaker Dr M Wahlquist will present a talk titled Diabetes in Sweden.
Mrs L sought Voters' Voice help after her sewing machine was mixed with an older model during interstate removal across Melbourne Canberra and Perth. The machine arrived damaged with chipped paint battered case and damaged attachments prompting an apology and damage compensation discussion with the moving company and Perth Canberra managers.
Fragmentary text mentions security rooms for tele sions mercos and sewing machines, with depots and officials named Rai or Bert referenced. The garbled note implies items locked away in secure rooms, suggesting a restricted access context at company depots or facilities.
A Curtin resident voiced alarm about a broken manhole on Dawson Street risking pedestrians. The PMG and Departments of Works and Capital Territory reported the cover had been replaced by mid June, with officials noting the issue was resolved but adding a matching cover was hard to source.
Mrs H questioned grass seed price increases at an ACT shop after paying about 05 a pound. The manager said she had been undercharged earlier and noted seasonal demand drives fluctuations. He estimated current stock at 70c per pound and a future batch around a pound.
Mrs of Torrens writes to Voters Voice detailing repeated clutch and brake problems after service at a local distributor. The car, bought new with 11 600 miles, had wheel noises and brake issues persist despite replacements and inspections. The manufacturer’s rep replaced the clutch. service manager to inspect immediately with results later reported.
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