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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Sep 30, 1957
Page
1
Misread fragments mention athletes and schools with hints of a race or event. Names and places are unclear, but the context suggests a local sports item with promises and a memorial tone. The garbled text references Tob er and Canberra in connection with competition or trials.
Commonwealth finance ministers meet as Canada and Britain discuss a long term tariff reduction. Peter Thorneycroft and Donald Fleming lead talks on Anglo Canadian free trade prospects with a possible 12 year timetable. Delegates expect a full Commonwealth conference next year to push the plan.
Reports say the New Australia with over 1000 passengers collided with a tanker near Goode Island ten miles from Thursday Island. No lives were lost. Harbour master Captain Fairgrieves and customs officers went to the scene. both ships are anchored offshore.
Ghana restores entry for Daily Telegraph correspondent George Evans who had been refused on grounds of an administrative error. He had a temporary eight day residence permit and planned to seek a one month extension. Appeals by two Muslims on deportation were due in Kumasi in October.
Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus suggested the closing of the racially integrated Central High School would be a pleasant development after a meeting with a mothers group that urged ending the integrated classes at gunpoint. He gave reporters no comment after a private talk.
London reports a four Court of Inquiry will examine the De Havilland factories holidays dispute. Labour minister Ian Macleod acts as unions plan a world‑wide boycott of De Havilland components, risking grounding planes and threatening 3000 workers’ three weeks extra paid holiday.
The A C T Bring Out a lion Committee will meet October 9 at the Good Neighbour Council Hut to finalise plans to canvass Canberra houses for accommodation for U K migrants. President P W D Fethers said the campaign aims to place four or five families initially and extend to rural areas for farming work and employment.
A London TV interview sparked debate as Japanese Foreign Minister Ichiro Fujiyama faced questions about alleged pirating of British designs by Japanese manufacturers. Fujiyama remained silent while his interpreter objected to the line of questioning. A British observer urged Japan to improve quality to avoid future criticism at overseas capitals.
Sydney reports three deaths from weekend road accidents in New South Wales. A man named Wallace Pile died when his car hit a tram at the Queens Square terminus. A car containing Phillip David Reginald Cann and Harriet Avis Hunt collided with a semi trailer on the Hume Highway near Goulburn, killing them instantly.
Melbourne report notes Victoria’s sole road death of the week end a contrast to the prior two weekends with 14 dead and 100 injured. The victim, 20 year old Gerald Nicholas Ibbotson of Alpine Grove Pascoe Vale, died when a car he rode in overturned on the Henty Highway south of Horsham.
A Lagos to Kano train derailed after hitting a washed out track 20 miles north of Ibadan. At least 200 dead and about 50 injured drive emergency response as students are reported among victims.
The Labour Party executive tabled a purgency resolution for its Brighton conference. It attacks the Government's economic policy, alleging domestic planning abandonment and military ventures abroad have fueled inflation, rising costs, gold and dollar reserve losses, and sterling speculation.
An year-old boy named Christopher James Murray of Jansen Street West Maribyrnong drowned after sliding 50 feet down a slime coated storm-water drain into the Maribyrnong River. He was pronounced dead at Footscray Hospital after doctors massaged his heart for over an hour as rescuers searched seven feet of water for twenty minutes.
A Queensland bus driven by Colin R Holmes of Margate lost control after a tyre burst and collided with a Victorian semi-trailer driven by Joseph M Snedden of East Preston. The bus veered down an embankment and across a paddock. two women from New South Wales were admitted to Macksville Hospital with abrasions and shock. Police praised both drivers for aiding the injured.
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