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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Mar 07, 1968
Page
2
Residents of Burrinjuck village face water shortages as Yam water is carted 35 miles to fill a household tank. Only one tank has been filled with Yass water while others rely on mud and scarce supply. Water consumption has dropped drastically as days pass.
Philip Herbert Watson told ACT Land Commissioner Dr J F N Murray that without his ACT home he would relocate to NSW. Evidence outlined plans for a National Capital development and noted disturbances in rural leases east of the Murrumbidgee. The hearing, second of eight, considers rent increases effective January 1, 1966, and whether price rises reflect capital values and tenant improvements. The commission reviews rent justification as property values and development needs loom. The session continues with further testimony on compensation for improvements and potential site use for residential development and a golf course within three to ten years.
Sir Tom Bart Smith, member of one of South Australia’s proteerine Yams Iiee, with pastoral interests nationwide, died in hospital at Victor Harbour yesterday after being admitted earlier. He had lived at his Victor Harbour home for a few days.
An application for a twenty pound a week pay increase for ACT carpenters joiners and bricklayers was adjourned by the Commonwealth Arbitration Commissioner in Canberra yesterday. The case, brought by the Building Workers Industrial Union of Australasia, involves the ACT Federation of Labour and the Federal Government departments. The hearing, expected to continue for several weeks, concerns the status of the Federal award for building workers and the inclusion of carpenters and bricklayers within the ACT award framework.
The State Senior Constation Commissioner Mr J Cahill rescinded the Agricultural Employees State Award with the full agreement of the union and employers. The Federal award had covered only stations with 2000 or more sheep but now extends to all pastoral stations regardless of stock numbers.
Melbourne coroner criticizes negligence in the deaths of Bruce Allingham aged 4 and Ashie Schraven aged 3 who suffocated in an old refrigerator in the Allingham yard at Horonia. Constable Pritchard testified the door swung shut, shelves were removed, and no escape was possible. The coroner ordered blame reviewed for the home owners.
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