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The Sydney Homing Herald, Sat, June 23, 1973 8 FORD UNVEILS NEW RANGE OF EXPENSIVE LIMOUSINES INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES BHP strike settlement efforts end in failure A compulsory conference yesterday between BHP and the 11 unions which have been involved in rolling strikes against the company failed to settle the dispute. THI NIW FORD LANDAU THE NEW FORD LTD Challengers to the Europeans From the Motoring Editor Myer daughter claims $100,000 minimum out from the grille when in use. Its interior appointments are opulant, and the rear seats are individual buckets with their own arm MELBOURNE, Friday. Mrs Simon Warrender is claiming a minimum of $100,000 from the estate of her father, Sir Norman Myer, the Supreme Court was told today. MELBOURNE, Friday.

Ford Australia, crippled at present by a strike at the main assembly plant, unveiled a range of limousines today, designed to compete with the leading European makes. The two cars, a four-door Ford LTD, and a two-door Ford Landau, will go on sale five weeks after the resumption of work at the company's main assembly plant at Broadmeadows in Victoria. The LTD an all-Australian built replacement for the American Galaxie which Ford Australia used to assemble will cost $7,770. The Landau will sell for $6,950. The two cars are the first all-Australian vehicles to feature disc brakes on all four wheels.

Heading home ROME, Friday. The Premier of Western Australia, Mr Tonkin, who had a private audience with Pope Paul on Wednesday, has now left Rome for Singapore. (AAP-Reuter) Both cars are powered by the 5.8 litre (351 cu in) V8 engine already used in a number of Ford Australia's products. Automatic transmission and variable ratio power steering are standard equipment on both cars. The LTD is set on a long 121-inch wheelbase the same as the former Galaxie, and five inches more than the current Fairlane.

Although overall length is about a foot shorter than the Galaxie, rear leg room is claimed to be four inches more. Special attention has been paid to the standard of trim, and real leather upholstery is available as a $250 option. Both cars are sir-conditioned. The Landau is built on the same 1 1 1-inch Australian medium wheelbase as the Falcon, although it shares the same front-end styling as the LTD, with twin headlights, which fold cant that she went to one of the executors and said to him: "Everything else seems to have failed, and this will have to go to court." Mr Hughes said the executor's reply was that it would have to go to court. Mrs Warrender had spent $63,000 on the support of her mother, said Mr Hughes, and $165,000 had been used to meet the claims when a British insurance company which had underwritten transactions by her husband's company collapsed in 1964.

Mr Justice Pape said her money had been eroded by gifts to her mother and husband, who had made rods for their own backs, the mother by improvidence, and the husband by an unfortunate business transaction. rests. It is a hardtop wun vinyl trimmed root. Standard equipment includes power windows, air-conditioning, heated rear windscreen, power steering and thick carpeting even in the boot. Mr Brian Inglis, Ford Australia's managing director, said the Australian luxury car market was the only segment in which Ford was not a dominant competitor.

He said market analysis had revealed a strong demand for an Australian luxury car, and Ford expected to gain 35 per cent of the luxury market for the last six months of this year. He expected an annual volume of 3.500 units a year, and Ford hopes to break into the fcuropean export market eventually. will be held in Port Kembla and New-, castle during next week. Mr MacBean said Mr; Justice Cahill had suggested that the unions end their strike so that the' negotiations could be held in a better atmosphere. He said BHP would con-, sider a number of points put forward by the unions, including: Whether it would agree to a minimum all-purpose payment.

The amount they would be prepared to pay. The date the increased payments would begin. CONTAINERS: Waterside Workers' Federation members lifted their ban on the Maritime Services Board container terminal at Glebe Island yesterday morning. About 800 containers, held up because of the week-long ban, began moving again. At White Bay, waterside workers returned to work after deciding to await results of further talks next week on a demarcation dispute with the Storemen and Packers' Union over container packing and unpacking.

CIRCULAR QUAY BAN: Dockers put a ban on work at the No 4 Circular Quay wharf vested day because they claimed their parking facilities were inadequate. The Waterside Workers' Federation said that a passenger vessel at the wharf, the Himalaya, was moved yesterday to No 13 Pyrmont for unloading so Mr J. MacBean, for the Trades and Labour Council, said after the daylong conference that BHP had not been prepared to discuss the union's claims yesterday. However, Mr Justice Cahill, of the State Industrial Commission, who is presiding over the conference, had allowed the unions to put their case forward. BHP had agreed to consider a number of points made by the unions.

BHP had applied through the Commission for deregistration of the 1 1 unions. They claim that the union members have been involved in illegal rolling strikes in Sydney, Port Kembla and Newcastle since late in April. They also claim that the unions have encouraged and organised the rolling strikes and that this is in contravention of their obligations as trade unions, and against the law. This application was adjourned last Monday so the compulsory conference could be held. The unions are seeking an over-award all-purpose payment of $18.50 and a production bonus.

The rolling strike campaign began after BHP refused their claims and negotiations had broken down. Mr MacBean said yesterday that the compulsory conference had been adjourned until 10 am next Friday. He said union represent- atives will meet next Mon- aay and mass meeungs Ltd, was voluntarily wound up, and she received $339,000 for her shareholding. Mr K. A.

Aickin, QC, for the trustees of the estate, said that it could not be said that Mrs Warrender had not been adequately provided for. He said her claims on the estate were settled in 1963 when Ashwick Pty Ltd was wound up. Mr Aickin has asked the judge to strike out Mrs Warrender's application on the grounds of "want of prosecution" or that they are "an abuse of all the processes of law." Mr Hughes said the Envoy's Sydney visit Man who shot wife jailed for life CANBERRA, Friday. The new American Ambassador to Australia, Mr Marshall Green, will make his first official visit to Sydney next Monday and Tuesday. He will make courtesy calls on the Governor, Sir Roden Cutler, the Premier, Sir Robert Askin, the Chief ON NEW ROUTES Fife defends power staff FIJI ISLAND FOR SALE Beautiful 5 acre Fiji Island Freehold Undeveloped Near Mainland Beaches Good Fishing.

High Tourist Potential For further Information write to Owner No. X10571 "The Sydney Morning Herald' 26 Hunter Street, Sydney, 2000. Ml. 181 A 33-year-old man, found guilty of murdering his wife with a shotgun, was sentenced to life imprisonment last night in Central Criminal Court. Vernon Jeffrey Bryson Stewart, of.

New South Head Road, Darling Point, had pleaded not guilty to having murdered Margaret Jean Stewart at Lane Cove on August 19 last year. A 12-man jury returned its uerdict after a 20-min-ute retirement. The trial lasted five days. The Senior Crown Prosecutor, Mr L. G.

Tanner, QC, appeared for the Crown and Mr E. Byron for Stewart The Crown alleged that Mrs Stewart died instantly after being shot a number of times with a shotgun in a home unit at Lane Cove. The Crown said that the Stewarts had married in 1971 but difficulties had Mrs Warrender delay in prosecution of her claim had been explained "by means of uncontradicted evidence." Mrs Warrender had been forced into the unattractive position of taking it to court by necessity. She had been upset and unhappy about the provision made for her in her father's will. "She was asked by significant members of the family to hold her hand, in the interest of the family name, Mr Hughes said.

Earlier, he had said she was "tied to the chariot wheel for family honour." Mrs Warrender had tried a variety of solutions. This was not to her discredit. "In the end she had to make an awful decision to bring the matter to court, or to go back on a bond or pact," he said. He said it was signifi BUSES 257 269 273 Arrows show the The movement of traffic at the main Crows Nest junction of the Pacific Highway will be rearranged from Monday. The rearrangement will cause minor alterations of bus routes 257, 269 and 273.

Route 273 (Chatswood-Wynyard) and 269 (Milsons Point-Crows Nest) buses will not be allowed to turn into or out of Willoughby CROWS NEST go V. DO 'S that its passengers would not be inconvenienced by tne ban. Mr Fife said some of the 21 power stations still operating were doing so with difficulty. He could not forecast how long they could continue supplying power, especially for peak demand. This depended on technical and industrial considerations.

1 he Government, he said, was adopting a "wait and see" policy pending Monday's compulsory conference. The Government had so far considered no action other than to invoke regulations to introduce rationing if the supply was seriously affected. Mr Fife said the dispute could affect the employment of many people in industry. In 1971, the Stale Government introduced amendments to the Arbitration Act, providing for heavy fines for unions engaged in illegal strikes, and de-registration. At the time, the Government said its main aim was to deter illegal strikes which might affect essential services.

1 A 257 FALCON ST. A-i 257 crash which the Crown alleged was Stewart using a shotgun to blast the lock off the door. Stewart had then followed his wife inside the unit with the shotgun. He had menaced Mr and Mrs Prentice, who took refuge in another room, and soon after, they ncard several snots tired Mrs Stewart had been found lying dead on the kitchen floor and the ac cused had been lying near ly, wounded. Medical evidence called by the crown was that Mrs Stewart's cause of death was shotgun wounds to the cnest.

She also had been "peppered" with shotEun pellets to the lower part of the body, causing internal injuries. In a lengthy statement from the dock Stewart told the jury he had taken the shotgun to the unit where 111s wite was staying with tne intenuon or scaring ner. "I thought that if I scared her she might tell me why she had left me or what had gone wrong, he said. The first voyagers? Were Australian Aborigines the first men to make major sea crossings? An anthropologist sees this possibility in a re assessment of pre-history brought about by carbon-dating. Looking Behind the News, the "Herald" weekly educa- tion feature, next Tuesday examines the new windows on the past which modern methods of dating have opened.

Another article in the same feature discusses the effect of sugar on our economy. He asked: "If these things had not happened would she stilt be com. plaining about why she was inadequately provided tor" Mr Hughes said that Sir Norman bad set up nis second family, but had failed to provide adequate' lv for his first family. He had promised the daughter of his first mar riane. Mrs Warrender.

that he would look after her mother, he went on. "Sir Norman undertook clearly to his daughter that he would cope with the problem, and that she (the mother) would never be left as a problem to her daughter. "Unfortunately as that statement turns out, it is unhaonilv untrue. "This is where the chips have fallen ott the statue, he added. Justice.

Mr Justice Kerr, and the Lord Mayor of Sydney, Alderman David Griffin. On Tuesday, he will address a lunch meeting sponsored by the American Chamber of Commerce, the Australia-American Association, the American National Club and the American Society. indicate bus stops. Route 269 buses will operate via Willoughby Road, Ernest and Alexander Streets to reach the Highway. Only Route 257 buses to Balmoral will use the present bus stop in Willoughby Road and then turn into Falcon Street.

The rearrangement was requested by the Department of Motor Transport and North Sydney Council. New traffic lights will be installed at the weekend. He's got a system which no one is able to work out. Eleven o'clock, and tails are still falling. The woman in the pink cardigan flicks up the kip, does a ittle preliminary shuffle and tosses the pennies like a veteran.

Tails. AGAIN. By now the big tails backer must be $1,000 in front. A novice picks up the kip, doesn't toss high enough and is "barred." "You need more practice" says the boxer, good hum-ouredly. The game is still going strongly when you leave at midnight, As the third door closes behind you the last thing you hear is the croak of "tails, tails, tails.

I've got a bit of money for the tails." There is a "sudden-death" simplicity about two-up that attracts the players. And they don't have to wait until Anzac Day to get away with it. Her counsel, Mr T. E. F.

Hughes, told Mr Justice Pape that he was reticent to name a sum, but Mrs Warrender sought a six-figure amount. Mr Justice Pape: "That is, not less than Mr Hughes: "That would be the minimum." The judge reserved his decision, and adjourned the case to a day to be fixed. The court has been told that Mrs Warrender, 48, of Toorak, received $10,000 from her father's will. In 1963, a family company, Ashwick Pty arisen in the marriage and last July Mrs Stewart had left her husband and gone to stay with friends. On August 19 last year, Stewart had gone sailing with some people he knew and had become "well affected" by liquor.

Later in the evening, Stewart had decided to talk with his wife and had gone to a home unit where she was staying with a Mr and Mrs Prentice at Lane Cove. The Crown alleged Stewart had seen his wife about 6.30 pm but had left soon after to go back to where he was staying at Darling Point. At about 9 pm Mrs Stewart had been at the Lane Cove unit watching television with Mr and Mrs Prentice, when there was a knock on the door. Mrs Stewart had spoken to her husband through the closed door. There had been a loud I I LH293873 Lufthansa introduces a vitally important subject for all high school students.

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