Cycle trip for charity
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SYDNEY, January 2. A 50-year-old great-grand-mother, with 106 grandchildren is travelling 1500 miles across the outback of Central Australia on a bicycle in an attempt to raise $90,000 for charity. Mrs Hazel Koch is riding her bicycle, a Christmas gift from her husband, from her home in the mining town of Mount Isa, in north-western Queensland, to Alice Sprngs in the centre of Australia, and back.
She hopes to raise money from sponsors of the trip to build a youth centre for children in her home town. Mrs Koch, who also has 15 children and one great-grand-child, left Mount Isa four days ago and hopes to complete her round trip within 12 days.
15ilb baby | Mrs Laura Lipari, aged 24, today gave birth to a 151 b! '!8oz boy in Brindisi, Italy.! (Doctors at Di Summa Hos-| pital say that they believe' the baby is one of the largest! born in Italy, and that the! mother and her son are “do-[ ing fine.” Mrs Lipari’s first! son, born two years ago,! ; weighed 121 b. — Brindisi,. 1 December 30. 1
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32804, 3 January 1972, Page 5
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