Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Monday 12 September 1983, page 10


IN BRIEF

Ginger Meggs

Lloyd Piper, 60, of Strathfield, Sydney, who drew the Ginger Meggs cartoon strip sincc 1974, was killed in a car accident last week. He succeeded Ron Vivian and Jim Bancks as the Meggs car

toonist.

Student pilots

Sharply increasing costs are probably the major rea

son for a 29.5 per cent decline this year in people seeking student-pilot licenccs from the Department of Aviation, according to the General Aviation

Association.

Scholarships

The Australian Academy of the Humanities has awarded scholarships, grants-in-aid, to three Australians for overseas study in 1983-84. The recipients arc Dr B. Dawson, University of Newcastle, Dr P. Eggert, La Trobc University, and Dr A. McCoy, University of NSW.

Cowarra Dam

Pollution-control measures to prevent tailings from reaching the Murrumbidgee River from the Cowarra Dam site, near Bredbo, could be expected to begin soon, the Member for Frascr, Mr Fry, said

last week.