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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Sep 14, 1963
Page
2
Road diversions around the RAAF base for Air Force Week open day affect Canberra drivers on Fairbairn Avenue turning to Majura Road and Morsehead Drive toward Queanbeyan Road. Queanbeyan entrants use the main gate. parking will be directed.
Professor Cherry spoke at a national water resources symposium attended by over 140 delegates from Australia and overseas. He urged forming a hydrology society to aid planning and management, while Professor E S Hills of Melbourne proposed Academy of Science scrutiny and council recommendations on water resource preservation.
Two experts clashed at a symposium on Australia water resources over whether new irrigation schemes are needed. Prof. K O Campbell argued reduced need due to urbanisation while Mr. L R East urged using economic evaluation as guide not rule.
Mr. East challenged anyone to highlight a major Victorian water conservation project that should not have been carried out given present knowledge. He noted difficulties and partial failures common to private enterprise, pointing to expenditure of 75 million pounds over 60 years as a negligible proportion of the nation's total.
Austria signed the nuclear partial test ban treaty in London, bringing the total signatories to 79. Dr. Johannes Schwarzenberg, Austrian ambassador in London, signed for Austria as the Russian and American texts remained open for signature in Moscow and Washington respectively.
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