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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jun 28, 1956
Page
7
In Singapore a farmer Khoo Ger fought a python that had seized a duck from his son. Neighbours attacked the snake with hoes. Yap Koon described his son being gripped as the snake coiled around him. The father arrived to help as local boys moved the reptile to a hospital.
Frederick Stanley Anderson, 47, crew member of the Oronsay, died when a pontoon crushed him aboard the ship off Oronsay Sydney. New Zealand children will be inoculated with a Pommel vaccine, with vaccination programs to follow.
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