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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Sep 22, 1955
Page
4
The Commonwealth proposes shifting from government home-building to cooperative societies for housing. It plans a revolving fund and long repayable loans to societies with minimum targets, while ensuring standards and preventing over-dense flats.
A heavy hurricane devastated the Eastern United States and Mexico with at least 48 deaths. Mexican authorities reported 200 residents of La Pesca missing after the Purification River washed away the town.
The ACT Trades and Labour Council will urge the PMG Department to probe trunk line charges after Mr M Heffernan of the Shop Assistants Union alleged a woman altered a telephone bill to 31 pounds. Heffernan says he later tested the PMG system by trunk line calls and noted a different number.
Police hunted a man who at knifepoint forced a 25 year old woman and two children from the Empire Theatre on Cleveland Street in Sydney. After the attack he led them to a utility truck and drove off as bystanders were restrained to avoid further danger.
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