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For a war zone, the scene is strangely peaceful. As night falls on Ceduna, the noise of traffic gradually recedes until all that can be heard at the highway roadblock are the dulcet tones of Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton reviewing the new movie Jindabyne on TV. "If you had...
And Ceduna, the clean coastal town famous for its oysters, is home to the westernmost of the state's four roadblocks. "He's the bad bugger," says Provis' offsider, Brian "Flash" Hoffrichter, 63, brandishing a dried specimen of the Mediterranean variety (Ceratitis capitata), which is not much bigger than a...
With school holidays bringing extra traffic to the roads, Hoffrichter and Provis (partners on the 4 p.m.-to-midnight shift) are alert but not alarmed. And with Ceduna being the first entry point for motorists coming from Western Australia, where Medfly has flourished since about 1900, they are in the...
Town traffic is free to come and go through the roadblock, and Provis and Hoffrichter know the local number plates by heart. Eventually headlights cut through the gloom outside. "What have we got here, Geoff?" asks Hoffrichter, peering into the night. "A local?" Provis has the sharper eyes of the...
...within one or three weeks according as the faculty accept or object to the provis-visional pamphlet to be presented to them at to-day's meeting. In making an arrangement like this for the whole college year, it is very desirable that all who are affected by its provisions should state their wishes or objections before it is too late. Especially now when the tendency of the students selection of studies is such an important factor in the composition or our elective pamphlet, must it be pleasant to hear honestly-meant suggestions from every side and to hear them...
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