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-6 HOME NEWS THE AGE, Monday, May 22, 1978 Sweeping victory for ratepay ers A swing to I -7 could not go ahead unless the TheLnve association members BY STEVE HARRIS livin The Mallacoota Ratepayers' Association has won five of the six positions on the town's new waterworks trust. The State Government recently dissolved the trust following pressure from the ratepayers association. The association alleged conflicts of interest and unfair rating, and claimed a sewerage project would assist development projects more than residents. An Age INSIGHT report earlier this month said Mallacoota town was sewered. The trust commissioners voted for the sewerage scheme but the ratepayers' associations objected and successfully pressed for a fresh election for the Waterworks Trust.

The two men had also sought Government approval for a massive subdivision on Mallacoota Inlet. After gaining approval from the trust for the sewerage scheme to enable the project to go.ahead, it was rejected by the TCPB. At the election on Saturday, five association members were elected. The sixth position went to a builder, Mr. G.

V. include a former waterworks trust secretary, Mr. Kingsley Stanis-street, and a former trust commissioner, Mr. John Black. Mr.

Rudge and the other five commissioners resigned just before the Government's move to dissolve the trust became known. The president of the ratepayers' association, Mr. Stanistreet, said the new trust would undertake a thorough review of previous decisions. "We'll be having a close look at headworks charges, including the 11 storey building for which the charges were dropped, and the proposed sewerage scheme," he said. had become fiercely divided about land development.

The Town and Country Planning Board received an application last year for an 11-storey convention centre. Two people behind the project were Mr. H. R. Keogh, an engineer, and Mr.

John Rudge, a local publican. Until March, Mr. Keogh was consulting engineer to the waterworks trust. Mr. Rudge was a waterworks trust commissioner.

The Town and Country Planning Board said the project in country Melbourne's population growth is decreasing while the rest of the State is rapidly accelerating, according to the latest population estimates. Bureau of Statistics estimates for the year to June 1977 indicate that Victoria is now undergoijja real decentralisation with people flocking from Melbourne to Citountry. America Saucer flight in the air Gendarme gets a farewell Gendarme, the police drum horse, will be farewelled at Government House today. II Neil flawmi, Cat Sta6, on the The public is invited to attend the special cere By DAMIEN MURPHY Englishman John Searl believes in flying saucers and stoutly maintains he never goes out in the midday sun. In fact, he plans to build a flying saucer and zip over to Australia in it.

"All I need is a million pounds for the project," he said from his Berkshire home. "If I get the money, I can't see why we can't get the project off the ground within the year." Mr. a 47-year-old electronic engineer, said his flying saucer, which he calls a "levity disc" utilises the magnetic power of a gyro, or flywheel, for power. "It's really just two saucers sealed together at the rim. When Bangkok, Singapore and then home.

Mr. Searl said Singapore had already given him landing permission. And, his next letter is to Sydney airport. Mr. Searl said his three-seater "levity disc" would revolutionise trading techniques in this part of the world.

It was the prototype for a giant 200-metre "Ezekiel starship" which would take scientists into space for five-year journeys. "I named the starship in honor of E.el:;el because his writing in the Oid Testament is the only clear proof that has been presented to me that there are aliens from other planets and UFOs," he said. Mr. Searl whole-heartedly endows the current popularity of science fiction films. First to raise million pounds the power is on, there's no gravity and the weight ieaves the vehicle and goes below it.

The earth is really chucking it away," he said. He hi: upon the idea of using the flywheel as a source of power when designing a generator to replace a power station in 194S. "Bui, scientists laughed at me," he said. "Still. I've proved them wrong and had 41 levity discs in flight so far." Mr.

Searl has already mapped out a flight itinerary. England to New Zealand in 30 minutes, then Sydney via Honolulu, Los Angeles, Tokyo. Seoul. Hong Kony, mJSSL MELBOURNE 2,694.100 22.100 0.8 Gtelong 135.560 2.350 1.7 Ballarat 71.400 910 1.3 Albury-Wodonga 67.260 1.740 2.7 Bendigo 58.330 1.530 2.7 Shapparton 32.720 630 2.0 Total Country 1.088.200 14,200 1.3 VICTORIA 3.782,300 38,300 1.0 Hollow sounds mony which starts at 11 am in Government House Drive. Anyone who cannot attend the ceremony but wishes to see Gendarme will be welcomed at the Mounted Branch depot, in St.

Kilda Road, between noon and 3 pm. today. Melbourne's population, according to the bureau, grew by only 22,100 (0.8 per cent) in the year to 2,694,100 at June 30. But the rest of the State grew by 14,200 (1.3 per cent) to 1,088,200, giving Victoria a total population at June 30 of 3,782,300. Most of Victoria's major regional centres were growing at two or even three times Melbourne's rale.

Fastest The Geelong region attracted more than 10 per cent of the State's growth, its population increasing bv 3780 (2.3 per cent) to 164,870. Albury-Wodonga again had the fastest growth rate, increasing by 1740 (2.7 per cent) to 67,260. Bendigo also grew by 2.7 per cent to reach 58,330. Ballarat's seven councils recorded a combined growth of 1100 (1.4 per cent) to 80,350, while Shepparton grew by 630 (2 per cent) to KZ38A country regions recorded overall population increases. The most rapid growth outside the main centres was around Mildura, at Traralgon, and in the towns around the Gippsland Lakes.

But almost all the major country towns recorded growth rates higher than the capitals. The outstanding exception was Wangaratta, where the citv's population fell bv 220 (1.3 per cent) to 16,450. 32.720. According to the bureau, the growth was widespread. and all of Victoria's 11 Ditch Bjelke, party urged New South Wales Young Liberals have called on the Queensland Liberal Party to withdraw from the Bjelke-Petersen coalition.

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Bielke-Petersen's The Victorian Young Liberals also firmly resolved that the Federal Liberal Parry should press for the incorporation of a Bill of Rights in the Constitution. The council was told that Mr. Bjelke-Petersen's denial of basic rights demonstrated the need for it. The former president of the NSW Young Liberals, Mr. Jim Carey, said democracy was slowly dying in Queensland.

"Parliament hardly ever sits and 'one man one vote' is a myth." he said. The president of the Queensland Young Liberals, Mr. Greg Goebel. pleaded with delegates to reject the withdrawal motion. Mr.

Goebel said Queenslanders had a right to good government and it would be "horrific" for them if the National Party was the only party in government. The Liberals were a moderating force on the extreme of Mr. Bjelke-Petersen, he said. Mr. Goebel was supported by Victorian Bentleigh delegate.

Mr. Geoff Leigh, who told the council it should wait until the Queensland Liberals made a move. Mr. Leigh suggested that Queensland Liberal Party could form a one day coalition with the Labor Party to pass legislation for electoral redistribution, which would end the National Party's gerrymander. Victorian young liberals have called for a fixed four-year Parliamentary term.

They passed a Burwood motion that simultaneous House of Representatives and half of Senate elections be held every four years. The council was told Australians had been "bombarded" by elections in recent years and their frequency had retarded the economy and disrupted Parliament. The motion passed 43-31 stipulates that a Prime Minister could obtain an early poll only with the consent of the Governor-General when double dissolution bills became available under the constitution and when the Government lost the confidence of Parliament. Mr. Tom Burrows of Burwood said three-year terms forced governments to stop their legislative programme and "sweeten up" voters in the year before an election.

Simultaneous polls also would reduce the traditional protest vote against governments at half Senate elections. Libs want police chief called And no trace has been found of Mr. Mackay who disappeared from Griffith last year. Police believe he was abducted and murdered. A motion was passed of political murder this century." Two garbage men and a police constable died after the bombing at the Sydney Hilton Hotel during the Commonwealth Heads of Nations Conference in February.

The secret of the century much new material in the National Times' candid assess National Time's candid assessment of Sir Robert's career. Also: A special holiday guide to Europe; Larry Coro-wa ond the Ella brothers' black revolution in Rugby; a revealing profile of Neville Wran. New South Wales Young Liberals yesterday demanded that the NSW Police Commissioner, Mr. Wood, be called to testify in State Parliament. They want him to give evidence about the investigation into the Hilton bomb blast and the disappearance of anti-marijuana campaigner Don Mackay.

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