14 Oct 1961
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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Oct 14, 1961
Page
1
The UK plans to abandon its large air and naval base at Singapore. Well informed contacts in Canberra provided the lead, with the story carried by North American newspapers under Arthur Scholes of the North American Newspaper Alliance.
A report notes a 40 million plan affecting media staff linked to Scholes formerly of Australian United Press in Sydney. The text mentions changes involving Singapore, Australia, and personnel moves including men leaving Buterworth and Penny Island.
The Cremorne branch motion opposing the policy was defeated by voice vote. Senator Spooner argued the White Aus tralian policy was wrong and urged extending suffrage and South East Asian treaty ties while discussing potential SEATO base relocations and a proposed UK transfer to Western Australia with three site options. The plan outlined a three year timeline andcosts nearing £40 million.
Australian Land and Building Trusts Nos 3 and 4 paid another half yearly distribution at 6 per cent per annum. General manager R McCready announced yesterday that total distributions by Land Trusts across Australia since 1950 reached £959,254.
Air Marshal Asghah Khan visits Queensland and learns to operate vintage boomerangs from Squadron Leader Lyall Klatter. He struggles to retrieve a boomerang due to wind, while RAAF Base officials fear damaged windows. Khan departs to Point Cook then New Zealand.
Washington urged higher pace in Berlin talks with top specialists from Britain France and West Germany joining ambassadorial discussions. Moscow said Krushchev would push for a quick Germany settlement while Berlin incidents saw East German police fire into the air as nine fugitives fled westward.
The National Capital Development Commissioner announced a planned National Library to be built near Parliament House housing the National book collection and thousands of documents. Architects Mer Waller Bunning and E JO Mahony were named as consultants. funding plans and detailed proposals were to follow after site plans are prepared.
Sydney reporters reveal that jockey Mel Schumacher received a ten year disqualification ending his career after a life ban for foul riding at Randwick. The Australian Jockey Club's penalty followed an appeal and a committee decision lowering the ban from life to ten years despite protests from racing men.
East German frontier police shot and wounded 50 year old West German imamaliad reporter Kurt Liechtenstein while covering a border assignment about 25 miles north of the Helmstedt checkpoint. He was dragged across the border into Communist East Germany.
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