09 Mar 1964
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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Mar 09, 1964
Page
1
Canberra milk vendors backed away from a one brand zoning plan after a weekend of conferences boycotts and opposition. At a Canberra Trades and Labour Council meeting they agreed to urge the Minister for the Interior to set up a milk authority.
Mr J R Fraser will ask the Interior Minister Anthony to set up a milk authority with eight delegates from the Trades and Labour Council Canberra Consumers NCW and milk distributors to govern production supply and distribution in Canberra amid a zoning dispute. Vendors pressured by zoning changes prompted meetings. Bega Co-operative Society kept deliveries under vendor zoning while negotiations continue.
Ukrainian girls pictured at the Albert Hall Canberra Day Concert on Saturday night. They were one of many groups showcasing their national folk dancing in an exhibition event.
A spokesman said an anonymous caller phoned Ainslie fire station at 10 am reporting a bomb at the Mall. Fire brigade and Canberra police searched premises and exits at the shopping centre but found no evidence. The call was recorded as a malicious false alarm.
Millionaire Harald De Wahl Rubin, 65, died in Brisbane on Friday and will be buried in Canberra on Wednesday where he had planned to buy property and retire. He abandoned Canberra retirement plans after serious illness and earlier Melbourne cemetery burial plans were given up.
Donald West twenty from Melbourne Street Darlington died after a parachute misfire during a jump. He had represented Australia at world championships in Otage Massachusetts in August and had made over two hundred jumps. Ground crew and eight other parachutists witnessed his fall from more than 12 000 feet when his main failed to open and the reserve opened too late at under 500 feet.
Malaysia’s Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman said his cabinet would meet to decide whether to call up the nation or take the issue to the United Nations. He labeled Sukarno a dictator and warned Indonesians threaten regional peace as talks and preparations escalate.
U S defense secretary Robert McNamara told cheering Vietnamese students and officials in Saigon that the United States would stay as long as needed and provide whatever help required to defeat insurgents. He and General Maxwell Taylor planned talks with South Vietnamese leaders to coordinate economic military and civilian resources for victory.
The dead include Rex Morrison of Wacomar gama near Holbrook and a 1 year old crippled war pensioner Ronald Bush of Jar rawa near Vassa. Five others died in accidents from torrential rain as seas rose and floods spread across New South Wales, Queensland, and the Northern Territory.
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