Accommodation was scarce for the 9,500 people who visited Canberra for the Queen's Birthday holiday weekend, The Canberra Times reported on this day 47 years ago.
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Hotels in Canberra and Queanbeyan were booked out. Private accommodation was used to house visitors.
About 10,500 people visited the War Memorial, 3,000 more than the previous year. Holidaymakers were reported to have poured in record numbers into the Snowy Mountains for the start of the ski season.
A spokesperson for the Cooma Visitors Centre said that the whole area had been packed and every motel was booked out, with some having to sleep in their cars.
There wasn't any available accommodation from Goulburn to Bega. In spite of generally poor skiing conditions the centre reported that it handled 763 inquiries compared with 437 on the same day the year prior.
"I think a lot of people will have amused themselves building snowmen," the spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, shots were fired in a Goodwin Street, Lyneham residence.
No one had realised and no one was hurt. Thinking the sound was caused by fire crackers, Des Ireland found two bullet holes in his car the next morning.
