Protests Mount In Tait Case At Melbourne Uni
Two thousand university students demonstrated against Premier Bolte during a Melbourne University visit over the Robert Peter Tait case. protestors waved placards opposing capital punishment as lawyers at the Supreme Court chambers filed a lunacy petition to avert the condemned man’s scheduled execution on Monday week.
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Melbourne
Bolte
Robert Peter Tait
Melbourne University
Supreme Court
Tait
University
Teacher's College
Mr. Bolte
Cnce
Tait Insanity Petitions Amid Melbourne University Protests
Affidavits from two psychiatrists claim Robert Peter Tait, the Hawthorn vicarage murderer, is insane. The petition under the Mental Hygiene Act seeks a court inquiry into his mental capacity, with a private hearing held today and a resumed session planned. Police guarded protests as students clashed with officials during Bolte’s university visit.
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Robert Peter Tait
Hawthorn Vicarage
Tait
J. Starke
Q.C
E. D. Lloyd
Justice Gowans
Bolie
Nsw
J. McGeorge
Ane
David Scott
Church of England
Brotherhood of St. Laurence
Scott
Supreme Court
Guy Springthorpe
Lance Whitaker
Break burnt to protect forest near Kowen plantation
Fire crews scorched a 120 acre break yesterday to reduce risk of a bushfire in the 4,600 acre Kowen pine plantation behind Fairbairn airport.
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Forestry and Timber Bureau
Kowen
Fairbairn Airport
Public Servants Seek Increases Across Three Bodies
A tripartite committee formed by the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations the High Council of Commonwealth Public Service Organisations and ACT.U. plans to present a claim to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in Melbourne. The campaign targets wage gains for about 160 affiliated employee organisations as inflation pressures rise in Canberra with higher land prices and bank charges reducing public servants’ purchasing power.
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Canberra
A.C.T
Conciliation and Arbitration Commission
Melbourne
A.C.T.A
Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations
High Council of Commonwealth Public Service Organisations
Act.u
Commission
Phe
Administrative and Clerical Officers’ Association
J. F. O'Brien
Australia
Land prices rise as Canberra blocks fetch record sums
The ACT Commission kept its block release rate at about 900 a year while land prices soared at a Department of the Interior sale. Watson blocks sold up to £588 and a single Red Hill block hit £3,300 amid calls for larger releases and faster development to ease waiting lists and housing costs.
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Canberra
Department of Ie Interior
Wednesay
Watson
Red Hill
Commission
A.C.T. Advisory Council
W. S. Byrne
Apital Development
Byrne
Government
Building Society
Woden
Hackett
Watson, Downer
Deakin
Campbell
Hughes
Watson, Hackett
Narrabundah
Yarralumla Creek
Barton
Department of the Interior
Freeth
Watson and
Yemen and Saudi Arabia in war confrontation
The new Yemen Republican Government declares war on Saudi Arabia amid Saudi troop movements and arms smuggling. UAR pledges support with troops aircraft and paratroopers en route. Reports claim Royalist forces capture a border fortress as Yemen seeks to repel rebel attacks on Sanaa with heavy clashes and casualties.
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London
Reuter
Yemen
Cairo
Radig
Adbel Rahama E Baidani
Republic of Yemen
U.A.R
Nasser
United Arab Republic
Caer Seren
Maarab
a_ Foreign ‘Office
Britain
Abdullah Sallal
Mecca Radio
Imam Hassan
Sanaa
First Warm Day After Frost Lifts City Outdoors
Mild sunny weather yesterday drew many people outside as temperatures climbed to 68 degrees, two degrees above average and the highest since a brief warm spell in early September. A fine, warm day is forecast today with light winds turning to the northwest.
Voodoo Jet Collides With Airliner Near Bagotville
A Voodoo jet crashed after striking a Viscount as a TC A airliner landed near Bagotville. Nine injured at a hospital 15 miles north. four with broken limbs. Two-man Voodoo crew bailed out and parachuted to safety. Viscount badly damaged.
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Bagotville
T.C.A
Montreal
Sept-Iles
Quebec
Air Force
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