Welcome flag to greet Italian President Saragat in Canberra
Flag welcome will greet Saragat as he arrives in Canberra for a five day Australian visit. About 1,000 small flags will be given to children along the route from RAAF base Fairbairn to Hotel Canberra. White Maypoles will fly 62 alternating Australian and Italian flags across Kings Avenue and the bridge.
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Saragat
Canberra
Raaf Bane
Fairbairn
Kings Avenue
Sergio Mosetti
Pope Paul
Jerusalem
President Saragat Sighted in Canberra Visit Schedule
President Saragat arrives at Fairbairn RAAF base where the public can view the arrival and welcome ceremony. He then travels by motorcade via Fairbairn Avenue Marshead Drive Kings Avenue and King George Terrace to Hotel Canberra for a 3 50 pm arrival. After attending at Hotel Canberra he proceeds to Government House via Commonwealth Avenue State Circle Adelaide Avenue Dudley Street and Dunrossil Drive. He departs Government House at 10 pm returning to Hotel Canberra along the same route.
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Raaf Base
Fairbairn
Fairbairn Avenue
Marshead Drive
Kings Avenue
King Chorge Terrace
Canberra
Saragat
Government House
Commonwealth Avenue
State Circle
Adelaide Avenue
Dudley Street
Dunressil Drive
Covernment House
Trading with Rhodesia prompts sanctions debate in Britain
Reuters dispatch reports Rhodesia continuing to import a wide range of British goods including motor vehicles and textiles. Deputy Premier Wrathall accuses an international effort to violate the embargo with Britain allegedly aiding the trade. Sanctions were imposed at Britain's request.
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Lauissary
RSP Reuter
Rhodesia
Britain
Rho- Verlen
Wrathall
LIN
Timber industry planned for ACT to use 50 million logs
Canberra announces a new timber industry plan inviting private bids to build facilities using 50 million super feet of logs annually for twenty years. Estimated cost near 5 million dollars with production about 3 million yearly and potential 300 plus jobs.
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Canberra
Interior
Anthony
Zoning of milk delivery alleged in Canberra suburbs
Residents in newer Woden Valley areas accuse milk vendors of pre zoning delivery routes. They say brands are restricted before homes are built and zoned runs fetch about 8000 dollars. The Canberra Consumer Council calls for a milk authority with consumer input. vendors deny zoning.
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Woden Valley
Canberra
Interior
Anthony
W.S. Howitt
Howitt
Bega and
Dairyfarmers Milk Vendors
ACT timber industry proposal aims to boost mills and flakeboard plant
The plan would not cut timber in the ACT existing mills and seeks a 5 million dollar integrated operation. It would produce 3 million yearly value with about 300 jobs, linking a sawmill to a flakeboard plant using radiata pine logs and pulpwood residues. Sydney would serve the main market as import reliance wanes.
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Anthony
Act
McGrrath
Ber
Australia
McGrath
W. P. Ryan
Vanderfield and Reid
Sydney
South Australia
Victoria
Ryan
President Siragal Visit to Canberra Arrives for Luncheon and Meetings
The Australian capital prepares for President Siragal with a 21 gun salute by the Royal Australian Navy and Royal Military College detachment. A large ACT detective contingent travels with the presidential motorcade from Morshead Drive to Parliament House, then on to Hotel Canberra for a Governor-General call and a Government luncheon. The President will also meet diplomatic heads at Government House at 11.30am and attend a lunch at Parliament House at 1.30pm. Siragal leaves Hotel Canberra for the RAAF base at 10.10am, then departs Melbourne for Sydney later in the week, before flying to Singapore on October 1 after Vigil. Canberra Hospital to receive Italian books for patients, with a formal handover at 9am led by Mrs Ruth Inall. A six-page feature on the visit runs on Page 9.
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Royal Military College
Duntroon
ACT
Morshead Drive
King’s Avenue
King George Terrace
Parliament House
Canberra
Government House
Saragat
Raaf Base
Melbourne
Sydney
Singapore
Canberra Community Hospital
Oliva
Ruth Inall
N. A. Elvin
Russia promises arms to Hanoi
Moscow publicly pledged new aid to North Vietnam including aircraft guns missiles and antiaircraft weapons with shipments free of charge for 1968 as the Kremlin condemns U S aggression. The move follows three weeks of talks and aims to bolster Hanoi amid ongoing bombing while U S officials seek Geneva conference resumption.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
North Vietnam
United States
Kremlin
Hanoi
Kosygin
le Than Nehi
Tass
Detonators Missing Near Fyshwick Railway Line
Police fear two detonators taken from the railway line near Newcastle Street Fyshwick may be in the possession of children. The red three inch devices were placed to warn workers of an approaching train. Five boxes and an old sack were found during work on the Capital Hill hostel site and were sent to Duntroon.
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Newcastle Street
Fyshwick
Capital Hill
Royal Military College
Duntroon
Tigers Toast of the Town After Thrilling Grand Final Victory
Rohan Rivett lauds the Richmond Tigers as Melbourne’s toast after a dramatic VFL grand final with Geelong. He notes Geelong’s near miss on the scoreboard, a record crowd of 105,396, and celebrates the players’ disputed yet determined efforts. In Melbourne’s VFA final, Dandenong wins as chaos erupts with an umpire KO’d, Port Melbourne threats to walk out, and widespread brawls.
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Richmond
Melbourne
Rohan Rivett
Tigers
Geelong
Ople
Atood
Applay
VFA
Dandenong
Port Melbourne
Hunger drive in Canberra raises over twenty thousand
The Freedom From Hunger campaign in Canberra collected more than $20,000 from a doorknock appeal yesterday. Hosts and ACT country centres will tally today, with a hoped total near $30,000. Campaign chairman Dr J B Falk said it is a good response and urged those away from home to send cheques.
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Canberra
Act
J. B. Falk
Sypney
Nsw
T. Lawrence
P. Kendall
Suburbs Open House Leases At Belconnen Three Day Sale
About 5,000 visitors toured Aranda and Macquarie display homes as three day land and house block lease sales began. Buyers sought information on plots, with展示 homes and sales staff on site to explain options at the new Belconnen estates.
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Aranda
Macquarie
Sex test likely for athletes heading to Mexico
Australian athletes may face sex verification before the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico. Dr C W Bowering of the South Australian branch of the Australian Sports Medicine Federation says a mouth smear could determine chromosome count and thus sex. The federation may administer tests in each state or in Sydney under federation direction.
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Mexico
Sports Medicine Federation
C. W. Bowering
Bowering
Sydney
Survivors Rescued From Yugoslav Freighter Trebinje Fire
F1 survivors of the 7,041 ton Yugoslav freighter Trebinje were rescued after spending hours in open lifeboats in heavy seas. The ship caught fire and burned out in the Bas Ocean 300 miles off the coast.
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Durban
Aap-Reuter
Trebinje
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