Harold Holt walked into the sea on Sunday 17 December 1967 near Portsea, on the eastern side of Port Phillip Bay. Holt was an experienced swimmer and skin diver, and he was accompanied by his bodyguards as well as three friends. The beach he was on was notorious for strong currents and his friends urged him not to swim, but he went in anyway. After a short time, Holt disappeared from view. The search went on for two days and was one of the country's largest search operations in history. Two days later, on the 19th of December, the government announced that Holt was likely dead.
This story sounds like yet another bad spring break incident, except for one crucial detail... Harold Holt was Prime Minister of Australia when he walked into the sea.
Holt is commemorated by a swimming pool in Melbourne, and a suburb in the ACT among other things. If you find yourself in the town of Ballarat, Victoria, take a wander to the Ballarat Botanical Gardens where you can visit Prime Minister's Avenue to see busts of every prime minister of Australia.
And now, perhaps, a puzzle. Each name can have only one result, and use only the last digit of any result.
North
George Reid
John Curtin
Andrew Fisher
Chris Watson
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Sir Edmund Barton
Joseph Cook
Sir Earle Page
West
James Scullin
Arthur Fadden
Robert Menzies
Billy Hughes
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Malcolm Fraser
Gough Whitlam
William McMahon
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.
This cache is dedicated to Quilting is fun too, who helped me check a math related puzzle, even though she claims not to be good at them! Thank you Ruth... here's one with a lot less math!