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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Oct 28, 1948
Page
3
A fragmented OCR passage mentions a dive into an event at Vea Plant ware and a muddled scene with dazed phrases. The readable parts show confusion around a suspect action and a vague incident at the facility. Further specifics are not present in the readable text.
Officials warn about precaution in burning off for prevention as terrain in Brinda Bella mountains remains a concern. Jeasete and others must complete burning off by November to meet safety deadlines.
In unclear OCR text a Rear Admiral visited a location to return an official from the United States Navy to another place in 1947. The passage mentions motives and an exchange related to Admiral Denteid, but details are garbled and uncertain.
Reports say only eighty of an anticipated two hundred natives remain, sparking debate over vanished populations. Officials deny Dr Dennys claimed two hundred were found inland, while critics label ongoing tales as ridiculous omens and sensational stories.
In Sydney on a Wednesday the A C T U opened negotiations with the Miners Federation to end the coal strike on the South Coast. The strike has cost thousands of tons of coal. Talks will follow a basis of an agreement between the Federation and AWU, as decided by the federation central council. Notices were issued to 4 000 foundry workers in Sydney, with more to come tomorrow.
Mr. A V Bennetts, 48, president of the Manly RSL sub-branch and Mosman club executive, died instantly in a head-on collision on Brpit Road with a motor truck driven by William Arthur Wilby of Crown Nest. Wilby, Pud re Highway, Crown Nest, was not injured.
A brutal heat wave raises fire danger across coastal and inland areas. Hundreds of acres burned near Milton while two houses burned at Termell. Sydney crews battle outbreaks from Palm Besch to Engadine with nearly 1000 volunteers aiding containment. Weather Bureau forecasts temporary relief but warns heat may return by weekend. Water restrictions issued as consumption soars.
Wednesday notice of appeal filed by the RSL against Mr Justice Sugerman's injunction in the Equity Court. The league challenges the ruling that barred expulsion of Arthur Reginald Beugeest for being or sympathising with Communists. The RSL argues the judge wrongly construed the league rules and federal executive revolution.
The article reports the deaths of James Lyon Walker Barton and Louie Loveday Walker Barton at their station on September 25. Witnesses including Hope Moon testified about finding one body near the footpath as Br. R. Swinburn, the government medical officer, described the bullet that killed James Barton entering the head. The case involves William Benjamin Harvey and other station staff.
Sydney witnesses describe a dispute with the Department of Civil Aviation over a planned survey of the Sydney to Tamworth route. Basil South Brown of East West Airlines said the department declined last year to survey the area of the Lutana crash, while company officials offered to finance the work. He also claimed map heights were incorrect and that no documentary proof supported the department’s stance.
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