Home Started For Veterans Home Started For Veterans
The veterans home is expanding to 18 beds with two more residents added. Subscriptions to the home appeal total £16,443 5s 10d, including £7,000 from Welfare Committee and multiple branch RS.L. contingents and individuals. Funds come from Canberra, Kingston Narrabundah, Turner O Connor RS.L., and other associations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eel and Anderson Pty. Ltd
M. McPherson
Kent
A.C.T
R.S.L
Queanbeyas
Rs.l
Kingston/Narrabundah
North
Canberra
Legion of Ex-Servicemen and Women
Turner - O'Connor
Rats of Tobruk Association
Kingston-Narrabundah
H. T. Watts
Canberra South
Turner-O'Connor
Canberra R.S.L
J. B. Ral
Acreage Under Wheat Rises in Australia
Australia ended June with a record wheat acreage of 16,469,000 acres, yielding 306,912,000 bushels. The Commonwealth Statistician K. M. Archer noted an acreage rise of 1,745,000 from the prior year, with 1961-62 sowing at 14,723,000 acres producing 147,178,000 bushels. Export totals show 203,155,000 bushels for 1961-62 and 159,970,004 bushels for 1962-63.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commonwealth
K. M. Archer
Amusement Park Offers Job to Husband in Tunnel of Love Scheme
The New Jersey park proposes Andre Porum beanu a park manager post as a lever to reconcile with his wife Gamble Benedict Porum beanu. United Press International notes the offer hinges on the couple's reconciliation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Lee
New Jersey
Benedict Porumbeanu
Andre
United Press International
Aerial Rocket Tests for Long Wire Aerial Recovery
Minister for Supply Mr Fairhall described a 91 mile high rocket test to release a long copper wire aerial, below one tenth of an inch thick, 60 feet across, returning with the rocket. The Sky lark carried instruments to measure ionospheric electron densities and supported by the Royal Society in Australia for upper atmosphere research.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairhall
The
Royal Society and
Con
Flora strikes Haiti with 140 mph winds
The hurricane Flora hit the southwest coast of Haiti with winds up to 140 mph causing torrential rains and floods. It had previously damaged Tobago with at least 17 deaths and threatened Jamaica and Eastern Cuba near Guantanamo Bay.
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Haiti
Miami
Florida
Flora
Associated Press of America
Tobago
Jamaica
Cuba
United States
Guantanamo Naval Base
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Leslie Morshead
Schibeld Street
Lyneham
Home Appeal
Australia
Woomera
Weapons Research Establishment
R.A.N
Pittswater
Sydney
Lala
Churchill
P.O. Box
Bateman's Bay, N.3.w
SAILE
Batemans Bay
Churchill Real Estate Pty. Ltd
ALL Young's Stores
Yarra Falls
Lester Barrie
Young’s
Young
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