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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Sep 03, 1954
Page
5
Mr. Keane adjourned the matter until September for consideration of a grocer's licence at Yarralimla. Pend, of Yarralumia, argued the licensing discretionary power, but the proceedure noted the inconvenience and confusion in alcohol handling at hotel premises.
In a heated debate Mr Wentworth of the Labor party outlined a four point plan to meet the atomic threat from Russia insisting on decentralised civil defence for essential services. He promoted a permanent council to implement long term strategies and argued the cost should not be delayed by budgetary constraints.
Glebe House is being demolished and its bricks will be reused for a new sports club in Canberra. The project, financed by the Bail and Sports Club through voluntary effort, aims to finish by April 1906. The clubhouse will rise to eight stores, include billiards and table tennis rooms, a guest suite, caretaker’s quarters, kitchens, offices, and an indoor amphitheatre for basketball and volleyball.
A young Greek couple sought permission to wed before Kr Harvey at Paddington Court but were refused after an all day hearing. Meta Lakos, 18, said she wished to marry, while Kad C? Caravanis faced charges at Central Police Court related to Mataxia.
An earthquake-like tremor struck Mt Lotty and surrounding Adelaide suburbs, waking hundreds. Damage was generally small, but cracks in a wall reopened from the March quake rattled homes and beds, with crockery rattling and furniture rocking. Local residents reported renewed shaking and alarm.
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