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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
May 15, 1948
Page
2
An advertisement notes N BON Fiano Tuner offering optical repairs and piano services in Hingston with 15 years factory experience. Mentions frames, valves, and by contrast Canberra England boarding and nursery school phrases appear in fragmented text.
In a Quarter Sessions Court hearing, John Smith Garden testified he paid £5000 to the Minister for External Territories tied to a timber lease in New Guinea. He described the deal as his only dishonest transaction and recounted exchanges involving Ward, Forshaw, and Urquhart. The hearing adjourned to Monday. Also, the Timber trades saw a wage rise with up to 5000 male workers in leather, saddlery and canvas granted a weekly increase from June pay.
Rehearsals by the Canberra Combined Church Choir for Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado began last night. Conductor is Mr. T. M. W. Cunningham, formerly of Tis proposed to invite one artist from Sydney, but other Pampage tales rom
Twelve farms on the Ni Enlate near Sydney will be made available for experimentation. Four farms are suitable for fat jam rising others for dairying. Ranges in area vary from 60 to 808 acres and will be allotted as closer settlement at rentals from about £199 to £178. Applications should be filed with the Crown Land Agent at Gundagai.
A Canberra side mainly drawn from Eastlake and Riverside Hostels will play a first competitive match against Goulburn. The lineup includes D Wright Morgan Black Sherny Lay Me Gluaking Shaw Wilton Spreadbury Smith and Hurst in a tight, community driven contest.
Ambiguous OCR text reports Melbourne city court actions on vagrancy charges connected to a group calling themselves Saints or Our Gang. The fragment references tattooed individuals, a typed news sheet, and mentions of funerals and reform, but the exact charges and outcomes are unclear from the garbled passage.
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