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MONDAY, OCTOBER 91978 MONDAY JOB MARKET in Section TELEPHONE 2 0944 No. 43,934 23 PAGES 15 CENTS FIRST PUBLISHED 1831 GOWN LATE EDITION Jiifttitti mttaw Ub CP Lab Vacant Ind Doubt IttoT Lib CP Ub New House 17 16 60 1 5 99 Old House 27 18 50 3 1 99 Vacant Doubt Total New House 14 6 22 1 43 Old House 22 12 22 4 60 nn WEAN ON the counting so far for the Legislative Council, not enough people voted for the smokers' rights candidate, Dr William Whitby, to fill a single suburban train. 0 MIDDLE 13. Oft Ken Warby's Spirit of Australia reached The fastest 529.307 kmh on this leg, his second. man afloat Big win, but no 'knocking people about' By PETER KENNEDY, State Political Correspondent The Premier, Mr Wran, swept back to power with an overwhelming majority, declared yesterday his determination to stick to "stable middle-of-the-road government." He promised "business as usual'' from today.

On the coming redistribution of seats, he indicated he was not anxious to reduce rural voting power by implementing "one vote, one value." "I am not out to start knocking people about because we have had a big win," he said. The new Labor Caucus will meet next Wednesday, if all the seats arc decided by then, lylr Wran expects Parliament to meet on November 7 for a six-week session. The Budget introduced last month would be resubmitted. Party pressure 2rf ik lvTvc ll The Anzacs Today's instalment, P7 1918-mutinies on the Western Front By JAMES CUNNINGHAM Proud battalions of the fighting First AIF unlawfully refused duty on the battlefields of France, says Patsy Adam-Smith in The Anzacs, her new history of Australians in the Great War of 1914-18. And, far from being shocked by facts her research has revealed concerning the disobedience of orders by the Anzacs.

she said yesterday: "I was only surprised they hadn't done it before." In a chapter of her soon-to-be-published book extracts are being published in the Herald Patsy Adam-Smith brings to light in some detail mutinies involving Australian troops which took place on the Western Front in the second half of 1918. The fact that these dramatic incidents occurred is likely to surprise many people including old soldiers although they have been previously referred to in the six volumes of Dr C. E. W. Bean's Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-18.

'Some people are ashamed' "Unfortunately, not many people read official histories," said Mr Bill Gammagc, lecturer in Australian history at Adelaide University and author of The Broken Years, Australian Soldiers in the Great War. "But the events described happened." Mr Gammage said yesterday he had been given information about the refusal of the 1st Battalion to return to the front line but his informant, a former member of the battalion, had asked him to treat it as confidential. "There are some people who are ashamed of what happened," he said. "But that would be a minority feeling." In her account of the mutinies, Patsy Adam-Smith quotes the September, 1918, diary of Sergeant Stephens of the 58th Battalion: "We move forward tomorrow. All the boys full up and done up.

Hope they do not refuse to go forward as the 59th did yesterday." Dr Bean's history referred to this refusal by the 59th as the "first recorded mutiny in the AIF." He wrote: "The 59th when relieved on September 14, after a week of repeated efforts and continuous strain, had no sooner reached its bivouac and settled to sleep when it was summoned to the line again to follow the enemy's retirement. "Three platoons refused and their officer supported them, saying that the men 'believe their action to be the only way they can impress the authorities with their Continued, Page 4 Ken Warby clasps his hands in victory afte breaking the world water speed record Labor could not only have a majority of 28 in the Legislative Assembly, but also is certain to win eight of the 15 vacancies in the Upper House, and is in a strong position to win nine. Even eight seats would give it a majority. Mr Wran seems certain to face some resistance in the expanded Labor Caucus to a rigid continuation of his "sound, moderate and responsible" policies of the past 29 months. But one of his first major tests is expected to come over the electoral redistribution, due by May 11 next year.

Some Labor MPs are certain to press for the application of the "one vote, one value" principle part of the Labor Party's platform although Mr Wran indicated yesterday he did not favour its introduction at this stage. "One vote, one value" would reduce the number of rural scats and place additional electorates in urban areas where Labor gained the biggest swing on Saturday. Mr Wran said yesterday: "Any sort of redistribution at all, by nature of the fact that there have been three naked gerrymanders coupled with the population shifts in the metropolitan area of Sydney, must mean that you will get a fairer system." He indicated the Government would be more interested in revising boundaries within the existing quota system for urban and country seats than implementing "one vote, one Warby breaks own record A HERALD Survey published on August 19, more than three weeks before Mr Wran called the election and seven weeks before polling day, gave this result: Labor 59.1 per cent; Liberal-NCP 36.4 pc: Australian Democrats 3.5 pc. After all those millions of campaigning words the actual count of Legislative Assembly voting up to Saturday night was: Labor 58.59 pc; Liberal-NCP 36.55; Australian Democrats 2.36 pc. FRESH from bis latest tussles with the tax-dodgers.

John Howard, the Federal Treasurer, read the first lesson at St Thomas's Church, North Sydney, yesterday morning. Appropriately enough, it was Isaiah Chapter 55, which addresses itself in the first verse to "every one that thirstetb and he that hath no money." IS it that they wish he hadn't gone? Or is the ABC's publicity department unaware that he has gone? Half a dozen large prints of Garry McDonald in various, roles dominate the ABC's preview room at its Gore Hill studios. McDonald has not been under contract to the ABC for about a year now. He works for Channel 7. IT'S nice to see Nature in the City.

The weeds in a wire-fenced vacant block in Crown Street, near William Street, are being kept back by a small herd of goats. AMONG hints on where to get your mail sent, airport taxes in various countries and other helpful information, a Department of Foreign Affairs booklet, Points For Australian Travellers, warns against joining mercenary armies and becoming involved in activities against foreign States. Potential terrorists and hired guns, please note. A NOVEL way for "bored, bloated, stooped and draggy" people to get fit has been suggested in the University of NSW summer holiday program. It's belly dancing.

"It will loosen up your spirits and your backbone, letting the vertebrae uncoil into your natural serpentine stage of spinal affairs," the program says. Arts 8 Chess 10, 20 Comics, Crosswords 21 Finance 10 Law Notices 2(1 Look! 8 Mails 20 Motoring 10 Shipping 20 Sport 21-24 Television lift-out between 10 and 11 Weather 20 READERS' LET 1 ERS: Sentencing practia (Mr Mark Rob-ertron); women ir. education (Mr B. A. Kitchen), oyster dustry (Mr I'cter Doyle) Page 6.

FORT DENISON: High 1.14 am (1.2 metres), 1.31 pm (1.5 metres). Low 6.56 am (0.5 metres), 8.22 pm (0.4 metres). SUN: Rises 5.23, sets 6.04. MOON: Rises 10.41 am. Turn behind the Monday Job Market for Personal notices: P17 Classified index: P17 ADVERTISING: 2 0944 The Job Market Would a kibbutz system suit Australia's unemployed? Page 11 Pringle and the bishops John Pringle questions the authority of church pronouncements on economics 'and uranium.

Page 7 The new big look Mary Wilkinson, Fashion Editor, reports on a style for those Who are not so slim. IN SPORT Davis Cup defeat Britain took an unbeatable 3-0 lead against Australia in the Davis Cup semi-final in London on Saturday when Mark Cox and John Lloyd beat the favoured Ross Case and Geoff Masters in four sets. Three-way play-off A young West Australian golfer, John Clifford, survived a three-way sudden-death play-off to win the $15,000 NSW PGA championship at Leonay yesterday. Clifford sank a superb 2-mctrc birdie putt on the first hole to beat Ted Ball and Mike Cahill to the $3,000 first prize. Full reports, Page 24.

Surprise win BAGUIO, Philippines, Sunday. Viktor Korchnoi, the challenger, scored a surprising win over the champion Ana-toly Karpov in the world chess championship tonight. Report, Page 10 TODAY'S WEATHER Metropolitan: Sunny periods. Max temps: City 18, Liverpool 19. NSW: Coastal showers.

Mainly dry inland. Cool to mild. Details, Page 20 LATE NEWS Early lead to Roos IONDON. Sunday. 1 lead Northern.

5-3. aiifr minutes of the first half their Rushy Leapjt Rr.KilVird today. Roche wins I DON, Sunday. Roche, of Australia. John I.lovd, of Great i 6-3, 60 in the rcvrie singles of the D.i'is up semi-final at il today.

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Postal address: tor. SOf, CPO, ivdney, 2001. value" which, he implied, would be "getting some votes at the country's expense." When asked about "one vote, one value" being in Labor's platform, he said: "Yes, but it is also party policy to act with an eye to the next election, and I am not out to start knocking people about because we have had a big win." Any redistribution could only compound the problems for a depleted Opposition and especially the Liberal Party which was the main loser on Saturday. The Liberal Party not only saw its Leader, Mr Peter Coleman, suffer a personal swing of more than 11 per cent to lose his own seat of Fuller, but also saw seven other seats lost to the Labor Party. A further four Liberal-held seats arc considered doubtful.

The Country Party did not fare so badly. It suffered only one certain loss from its 18 seats, while a further seat is considered doubtful. The scats lost by the Liberal Party in addition to Fuller are Ncpcan, Manly, Wakehurst, Miranda, Cronulla, Yaralla and Burwood. The doubtful Liberal-held seats are Hornsby, Willoughby, Wollondilly and Albury. The only Country Party loss at this stage is Armidalc.

with Goulburn in doubt. Labor Party scrutineers said late yesterday they believed Labor's best chances in the doubtful seats were Willoughby and Wollondilly. Mr Wran said that, in addition to the unfavourable boundaries, Labor had not done as well in the country as in the city because people there were still suspicious of the party. Also, they were "still swallowing the unadulterated pap that emerges from people like Leon Punch the Country Party Leader and others." He believed Federal issues had been significant and that the vote had reflected the public's "grave disapproval" of the Fraser Government's economic strategy. Mr Wran predicted that "all hell would break loose" after the 1.5 per cent income tax surcharge, part of the Federal Budget, came into effect next month.

Referring to the election of Cabinet by Caucus on October 18, the Premier said: "I think the likelihood is that Cabinet will go back the same as it is. But that is not for me to say it is up to the Caucus." Cont on Page 2 By DAVID ROBERTSON Ken Warby of Sydney proved beyond doubt yesterday that his Spirit of Australia is the fastest boat in the world. The 39-year-old mechanical engineer from Concord hurtled his jet-powered craft across the glass-smooth Lake Blowering, near Tumut, at an average speed of 510.452 kmh (317.186 mph). He broke his own world water speed record, established last November on the same lake with the same boat, by nearly 50 kmh. Warby's successful two runs within an hour over the measured kilometre came 24 hours after an unsuccessful attempt saw the boat damaged by too-choppy water.

Warby and his team of RAAF mechanics worked late into Saturday night to weld and rivet back into position the high aircraft-style tailplane of the ninc-mctrc-long jct-cngincd craft. When he returned to his base camp after yesterday's record-breaking runs he was delighted. He knew he had done well. But it was more than an hour before Mr Bob Henderson, chief referee for the record attempt and president of the Boy shot at One of two boys in a market garden in Occupation Road, Kyeemagh, about noon yesterday was hit by shotgun pellets. He was treated at St George Democrats down break the magic 300 mph record came more easily than he had expected.

"It was a beautiful run," he said. "On the way up there was a little bit of bounce but not much, and on the way back I had the best water I have ever seen here. "I just sat there and let her go though I have to say I didn't use full throttle." On the first run he recorded a speed of 492.716 kmh (306.2 mph), and on the flying return leg his craft reached 529.307 kmh (328.9 mph). Now he plans to take his two-tonne Spirit of Australia around Australia on demonstration runs. He hopes to go overseas next year to try for an even higher speed.

"I think the Spirit of Australia could go more quickly," he said. "It was designed for over 350 mph and wc haven't done that yet. "But it has been out there trying a lot of times now, and it has probably had 40 or 50 high-speed runs. "It's really a question of how much more it can take physically. "Obviously, I will be looking at new hull designs, though I think the Westinghouse 34 engine we got from the RAAF is all the jet engine we need to go quicker." Guns quiet in Beirut cease-fire BEIRUT, Sunday.

The big guns fell silent in Beirut last night after eight days of savage fighting between Syrian troops and Lebanese Christians. There were some bursts of machincgun fire during the night, but the big guns remained silent after 10 pm, the time the Syrian-dominated Arab Deterrent Force said it would stop fighting. The ceasefire held on during today. The cease-fire followed urgent talks in Damascus between the Lebanese President, Mr Sarkis, and the Syrian President, Mr Assad. President Assad ordered the heavy artillery, which had pounded Beirut's eastern Christian districts and the surrounding mountains, to stop firing.

The right-wing Falangist Party radio said shelling continued for about half an hour after the cease-fire took effect. Right-wing leaders were sceptical about the prospects for a lasting truce. The two sides earlier yesterday ignored a cease-fire appeal from the UN Security Council. The sudden calm brought desperately needed relief for exhausted and hungry civilians, many of them wounded and trapped in underground shelters in the devastated cast side of the city. biggest branch in the electorate had recorded a 12 per cent swing and wc knew it was all over," he said.

"I just looked at the people with us and said 'We've done it, brothers." "It was far from a feeling of ecstasy. We knew that wc were going to win it and win it by that margin for the last two weeks, but wc couldn't believe it." Minutes later, a Labor Party official brought cheers from a jubilant crowd at Mr Cavalier's Hunters Hill home when he introduced the tall, Australian Power Boating Association, told the crowd at the base camp the actual times. Champagne corks popped and the crowd of helpers, well-wishers, journalists and visitors cheered and applauded. Warby was lilted shoulder-high by the 17-year-old apprentices from the RAAF school at Wagga who had worked non-stop to prepare the engine. Watching with a hint of tears in their eyes were Warby's 69-year-old mother, Mrs Evline Warby, and her husband, Neville, 73.

"We've never wanted him to do this," Mrs Warby said, "but when he was just a little boy, about six or seven, he used to say to me that one day he would be like Malcolm Campbell world water speed record holder of the 1930s and 40s and father of Donald, a later record holder). "He used to make little wooden boats and call them Bluebird." For Ken Warby himself, Project 300 his quest to Kyeemagh Hospital and allowed to leave. A man aged 62 is expected to appear in Kogarah Court of Petty Sessions tomorrow on a charge of malicious wounding. By GARRY MADDOX One of Rodney Cavalier's ambitions as a young man was to be a member of Parliament by the time he was 30. The people of the electorate of Fuller, based on Hunters Hill.

Rydc and Gladcsvillc, helped him achieve that ambition on Saturday with four days to spare. His 30th birthday is on Wednesday. In a giant-killing performance Mr Cavalier, a project officer with the Australia Council and alderman of Labor in the Assembly gained an overall swing of about 8.7 per cent to record 58.59 per cent of the vote. Coalition support dropped by about 9.7 per cent to 36.5 per cent, while the Australian Democrats polled only 2.36 per cent. Statistical features of the election were: The decline in support for the Democrats, who polled 8.5 per cent in NSW in last December's Federal election.

The uneven swing to Labor of about 5.6 per cent in the country compared with about 10 per cent in urban electorates. The significant increase in the Labor vote in Labor seats considered marginal such as Hurstville, Gosford, Blue Mountains, Murrumbidgec and Casino. The struggle by the Liberals to hold scats previously considered party strongholds such as Vauclusc, Hornsby, Wollondilly previously held by a former Liberal Premier, Mr Tom Lewis and Willoughby. An ambition fulfilled, just in time filial bespectacled Arts graduate as the Member for Fuller for the first time. He is married (only a month ago), and has worked as a research officer for the Miscellaneous Workers' Union and for the former Minister for Labour, Mr Clyde Cameron.

Some observers had thought that Mr Coleman's position as Leader of the Opposition was sufficient for him to retain the scat. "Wc proved that there was no such thing as a party leader vote," Mr Cavalier said. Hunters Hill Council, won Fuller from the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Peter Coleman, with a swing of more than 1 1 per cent. He had needed a swing of only 3.5 per cent. A comic book collector "the two I most admire are Prince Valiant and The Phantom" Mr Cavalier said yesterday that the news of his own comic-book success story on Saturday night brought a feeling of relief and disbelief.

"At 7.03 I was at my campaign director's home when a call came through saying the PAGE 2: Dowd has edge in leadership battle; new faces in Assembly; how the leaders reacted; priorities for new Parliament. PAGE 6: Editorial. PAGE The night the blood flowed; how they campaigned; Labor wins control of Upper House; Govt told to work with Churches; latest count. PAGE 10: Time to cut State flab. Mr Cavalier.