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Saturday, March 16, 1991 4 The Sydney Morning Herald IN BRIEF Speeding NSW motorists about to be framed crooks, said a State Liberal MP, Mr Julian Stefani. He believed the introduction of the speed cameras was nothing more than an attempt to boost revenue. Since their introduction, 35,000 motorists have been caught and more than $3.5 million in fines collected. Poiice were more concerned with raising revenue than catching crooks, said a State Liberal MP, Mr Julian Stefani. A total of 12 cameras will initially be set up, costing $500,000.

Speeding motorists would be photographed and film processed, but offenders would only receive a warning letter during the four-week public education period, the NSW Minister for Police, Mr Pickering, said in a statement. Superintendent Merv Lane, Traffic Staff Officer, said police planned to set up 100 cameras in trouble spots in Sydney and the pole doing 73 kmh, and had wrongly booked up to 1,000 drivers for speeding. A statement from NSW police said yesterday that the State would receive the same cameras as South Australia, while Victoria and Western Australia had slightly different ones. From Monday, six cameras will operate at some of Sydney's worst accident spots at Chatswood, Dee Why, Parramatta, Blacktown, the eastern suburbs and Liverpool. Central Coast.

The statement said 777 people died on Victorian roads in 1989. This dropped to 548 in 1990, the year speed cameras were introduced. Mr Pickering said while the cameras could not claim all the credit, they obviously had an important role to play. After speeding past a camera, a driver could expect a fine in the mail about a week later with a record of his or her speed, time, place and date of incident. The driver can get the colour photo for $10.

The statement said research shows excessive speed is a factor in 36 per cent of all fatal crashes. the cameras have had motorists fuming in South Australia since they were introduced six months ago not just over the many errors allegedly made, but also over the revelation that police were expected to write at least one speeding ticket a day. Police are more concerned with raising revenue than catching Radar speed cameras will be launched in NSW tomorrow, despite controversy over their use in Victoria and South Australia where, among thousands of alleged mistakes, a power pole was clocked breaking the limit. Police in Victoria have credited the "revolutionary" radars with saving more than 200 lives during their first year of operation. But the South Australian Parliament was told on Wednesday that speed cameras allegedly clocked a Vizard fast forwards to most popular personality Beachwatch hails pollution checks N'Gluka skipper is suffering, says wife Dennis Warner, skipper of the pleasure cruiser N'Gluka, was a "very sad man, who suffers incredibly" over the accident in which five children died at Port Stephens last year, his wife told East Maitland District Court yesterday.

In a pre-sentence submission after a jury on Thursday found Warner guilty of five counts of culpable navigation causing death, Mrs Carolyn Warner said both she and her husband were suffering unbearably. "He and I don't sleep very well, Dennis has lost weight neither of us understand what happened," she said. Five children drowned when trapped in the submerged cabin of the Warners II -metre pleasure cruiser when returning from a trip to Moffat's Oyster Barn, at Swan Bay, north of Newcastle, on January 8 last year. The Warners had owned the N'Gluka, named for their three children, N'gaire, Luke and Kara, for 12 months when they took the 49 passengers on the fateful outing. Questioned by defence counsel Mr Stephen Motbey, a drawn and pale Dennis Warner said it was difficult to explain in depth the anguish and pain he was feeling.

"Knowing the magnitude of that day, it is almost impossible to tell he said. "I continue to live with the pain in my heart." Judge Edward Pain yesterday adjourned sentencing Warner to Gosford Court on April 4, following a defence application that a pre-sentence report be prepared, supported by further evidence of Mr Warner's good character. The Crown Prosecutor, Mr Peter Barnett, said in submissions to the judge that the deaths of five children would normally require a custodial sentence. "However I can see no good purpose in sending this person to jail," Mr Barnett said. The court was told even community service would be an inappropriate punishment for Warner, who already served the community of his own volition.

Father will face sentence appeal The Director of Public Prosecutions has appealed against the 2'2 year jail sentence given to a father who killed his baby daughter. Mr Reg Blanch, QC, has appealed against the sentence given to Gregory Allan Vaughan by Mr Justice Finlay in February this year. Vaughan, 22, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his five-month-old daughter, Charmaine, in their Laylor Park home in the early hours of October 15, 1989. Farquhar: no verdict The jury in the trial of a former NSW Chief Stipendiary Magistrate, Murray Farquhar, failed to reach a verdict in the District Court yesterday. After deliberating for nearly five hours, the jury asked to be excused until Monday.

Farquhar, 72, has pleaded not guilty to a charge of possessing five paintings knowing them to have been stolen. New licence Australian Broadcasting Tribunal has granted a public radio licence to the Multicultural Community Radio Association of Sydney, paving the way for another ethnic radio station on Sydney's airwaves. The tribunal held conferences late last year and a public hearing early last month. PNG killing arrest Papua New Guinea police have arrested a man in connection with last Sunday's murder of an Australian soldier. Warrant Officer Gregory Ronald Dowsett, 42.

Anton Teitei, 20, of Tapini in Central Province appeared before the Boroko District Court. Jury discharged A jury was discharged on Thursday after failing to reach a verdict in the trial of a police officer accused of taking a corrupt $10,000 payment from an SP bookmaker. Eugene Zubrecky, 44, had pleaded not guilty to conspiring with another Gaming Squad officer and an SP bookmaker to act corruptly. Seaweed reprieve Seaweed lovers have won a reprieve from threats that imports of the delicacy might be banned. Most seaweed imports would comply with new standards announced yesterday by the National Health and Medical Research Council.

MELBOURNE: The Seven Network star Steve Vizard scooped the pool at the 33rd annual TV Week Logie Awards held here last night. The star of Tonight Live and Fast Forward, both produced by his company, Artists' Services, won the Gold Logie as Australia's most popular TV personality. Vizard also won the most popular light entertainmentcomedy personality category, and Fast Forward was chosen as the most popular light entertainmentcomedy program. The awards, voted for by readers of TV Week magazine, cap off his extraordinary rise to fame in the entertainment business. He gave up a law practice to enter showbusiness only three years ago.

Former Home And Away star Craig McLachlan took out the Silver Logie as most popular actor on Australian TV for the second successive year. Georgie Parker from A Country Practice won the Silver Logie for most popular actress. The Silver Logies for most outstanding actor and actress, voted by their peers, were won by Michael Steve Vizard entered industry three years ago. yard. Nine); sport: cricket (Nine); music video: Chain Reaction (John Farnham); children's: Agro's Cartoon Connection (Seven); new talent: Richard Huggett (E Street, Ten).

Other panel and peer voting winners: single drama or mini-series: Come In Spinner (ABC); outstanding achieve-' ment in public affairs: Other People's Money, (Four Corners, ABC); achievement in news: John Lombard (ABC); single documentary or series: The Chelmsford Scream (Nine achievement by regional television: Fixed Address (WIN, Wollongong). Georgie Parker. Silver Logie for most popular actress. Craig (for GP) and Rebecca Gibney Come In Spinner Other public voting winners: Series: Home and Away (Seven Network); telemovie or mini-series: Jackaroo (Seven); actor in a telemovie or mini-series: David McCubbin (Jackaroo, Seven); actress in a telemovie or mini-series: Annie Jones (Jackaroo, Seven); light entertainmentcomedy female personality: Magda Szubanski (Fast Forward, Seven); public affairs program: A Current Affair (Nine); lifestyle information: (Bourke's Back- By PAUL BAILEY Environment Writer Beachwatch is claiming a dramatic improvement in the accuracy of its pollution warnings for swimmers who used Sydney's ocean beaches during summer. The service released figures yesterday showing that its reports after visual inspections of the beaches agreed with subsequent bacteria testing of the bathing waters on average of 95 per cent of the time.

The Herald reported yesterday that according to a report compiled by the service, it had often failed to warn swimmers in the 1989-90 season of the presence of heavy pollution on many beaches. At Queenscliff, for instance, the service's reports were accurate for only one in every three days. On eight other beaches, the pollution reports were accurate only about half the time. The Minister for the Environment, Mr Moore, released the new accuracy report yesterday and congratulated the Beachwatch staff on the improvement over the previous season. The figures show that apart from Bondi, Bronte and Tamar-ama, the reports on all other beaches were accurate more than 90 per cent of the time.

At Bondi and Bronte beaches, the reports were accurate 78 per cent of the time, while at Tamar-ama they were right 72 per cent of the time. These three beaches are the closest to the shoreline dis- discrepancies between the visual inspections and the bacterial testing as inaccuracies, and this dragged the accuracy rate down. The service's manager, Mr Joe Donnelly, said last night he was appointed three weeks ago and was not involved in compiling the 1989-90 season report. He explained that the service's daily reports were to warn the public of visual pollution after beach inspections. The service had, in fact, done its job if the report said pollution was low and subsequent bacterial testing found high readings, because it was unlikely that people would swim when there was pollution, he said.

The minister said it was possible to improve Beachwatch's accuracy, especially on the three eastern suburbs beaches. The service was investigating funding research into "instant" pollution tests, which would be a vast improvement on present methods, which take at least 24 hours to yield results. Mr Moore also announced yesterday a major project to combat stormwater pollution on Bondi Beach through the installation of underground traps to capture gross pollutants before they can reach the beach. State and Federal ministers with responsibility for water resources agreed yesterday to a joint strategy to address Australia's water quality problems. Dr Beder rejects claims of greater accuracy.

charge of sewage from the Water Board's treatment plant at Bondi. But a member of the environment group Stop The Ocean Pollution, Dr Sharon Beder, said this year's figures could not be compared with last year's because they were calculated using different methods. She said the claim that the accuracy had improved was misleading. In this year's assessment, Beachwatch considers it has been accurate unless it has declared a beach "clean" and the subsequent water tests have shown bacterial levels above health standards. But if Beachwatch said pollution was low and the subsequent bacteria testing found high levels, the service counted it as an accurate warning.

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