The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 7

1 The Sydney Morning Herald, Wednesday, March 4, 1987 Page 7 1 -4wv4 I I 4 Peter Brock plugs on for the Director and orgone energy Peter Brock's Mobil-backed Group A racing team suffered yet another serious blow yesterday when its crew chief, Mick Webb, resigned. Webb, 36, who was hired only three months ago, said that "internal turmoil" was responsible for his decision. Three of the team's eight mechanics resigned with him. These moves leave the Brock Commodore team in tatters, com ing on top of the severing of business ties with Holden's and the resignations of Brock's co-drivers, Allan Moffat and John Harvey, in the past 10 days. Webb said his decision to quit had nothing to do with last weekend's disappointing performance by the Brock cars in the opening round of the Australian Touring Car Championship (ATCC) at Calder.

to ensure that the motor car has the very best handling characteristics and braking etc," Peter Brock says. The polariser is a small box containing two opposing magnets separated by some crystals imbedded in resin, and attached to a car by a self-tapping screw. It is claimed to develop orgone energy, a form which is unknown to modern science. Brock says Holden's have attempted to freeze supplies of parts needed to manufacture his cars. He says Holden's has indicated that it wants to take over' his lucrative "niche in the He has lost 15 employees (he now has 80) over his differences with Holden's.

But he says he will not capitulate, whatever the pressure. The world of Peter Brock is black and white right now. He shows several newspaper reports praising his vehicles, and speaks of a call from an American dealer who says 165 other US dealers have expressed an interest in the new Director. Later, when conversation returns, inevitably, to the contro Peter Brock and friend in happier times. Legality of council in doubt sacKin Brock failed to finish -although he ran as high as third and his newly-signed co-driver, former Nissan factory driver Glen Scott, ran off the circuit, damaged a wheel, and also failed to finish.

Webb, who was behind the scenes in the 1970s when Allan Moffat ran the Ford Dealer Team and later the Peter Stuyvesant-sponsored Mazda RX-7, said growing problems in recent weeks had made his job too difficult. something that the ordinary physicist is not considering at this time, and it therefore raises a lot of eyebrows. "There are not too many people on this earth at the moment who, as I understand it, are dealing with energies of this type." He said that the Japanese Government planned to "begin ir ii The law specifies that such reports should be forwarded to both the Minister for Local Government, Mrs Crosio, and the council concurrently. The council was not given copies until nine months after its dismissal in December, 1985. Mr Masterman was also highly critical of the fact that the former councillors were not given the opportunity to respond to comments made by the inspector until those comments had appeared in his report.

In addition, he said it was unreasonable that the former councillors learnt of their dismissal through the media instead of the proclamation being delivered directly to them and the council. The secretary of the Local Government and Shires Associations of NSW, Mr Bill Hen-ningham, said yesterday that the findings supported his view that His resignation, and that of the three puts tremendous pressure on Brock in this weekend's second round of the ATCC at Simmons Plains. This, in turn, must influence the views of his major sponsor, Mobil, about the wisdom of continuing its costly association with a team showing all the signs of disintegrating. DAVID ROBERTSON looking at these levels of technologies which they believe will be what is going to be required in the 21st "I'm talking about this product as a driver who understands chassis dynamics, who has been involved very closely with sorting out the capabilities of the polariser ymw id. i Jnp -t a backfiring question By TRACEY AUBIN, Civic Reporter While the National Party is feuding.

over whether its candidates should contest this month's election of the Warringah Shire Council, the NSW Ombudsman, Mr G. Masterman, QC, is questioning whether the council should have been sacked at all. Mr Masterman has found numerous instances of wrongdoing on the part of the Department of Local Government and its inspectors into the 1985 sacking of the council. He has also recommended substantial changes to the Local Government Act to ensure that such mistakes are not repeated. In his provisional findings, released yesterday, Mr Master-man wrong conduct from the department in its delay in forwarding copies of the findings of its inquiry to the council which, he says, was contrary to the law.

A case of Attempts to embarrass the leader of the NSW National Party, Mr Murray, over his party's candidates in the Warringah Shire Council elections turned into an embarrassing debacle for the State Government yesterday. The Attorney-General, Mr Sheahan, took the unusual step of asking Mr Murray a question during Question Time which was clearly intended to highlight the blazing row between Mr Murray and his party's Pittwater branch. Normally, only Ministers get asked questions during Question Time either boring Dorothy Dixers from their own side or curly Opposition questions which are intended to embarrass them. In a classic illustration of how the Government regularly fudges and avoids difficult questions, Mr Murray seized his chance with Mr Sheahan's question. To roars of laughter from members both sides of the House, who realised what he was doing, he completely ignored the question versial energy polariser, Brock slams his palms on his desk and exclaims in exasperation: "Forget about concentrating on this issue, which is what you're doing right now." Earlier he has said: "Look.

I know that we're talking about levels of technology which are very much cutting stuff. It is use the your Greener expenses, consolidate loan is don't We remarkably when If you us you pay a cent charges. For nearest soon as Sydney By LARRY SCHWARTZ All hell is loose in the bunker the offices at 35 Bertie Street, Port Melbourne, of the top racing car driver Peter Brock. A telephonist is frantically fielding calls. A young man sporting a T-shirt saying "I'm with Brock no matter what" rushes past a metallic green display model of the controversial new $55,000 Commodore Director.

Brock's secretary, Christine, comes in to his office with letters of support, one containing a $10 note. There has been much of this type of support in recent weeks. A young girl even sent Brock a Bible. Brock is on the telephone behind birthday cards (he celebrated his 42nd last week) telling a caller: "I thought you were with us, not against." the council should not have been sacked. It was Mr Henningham who complained to Mr Master-man in February last year on the council's behalf.

"Significantly, Mr Masterman has made a series of provisions in the department's inspectoral procedures to make sure those mistakes are addressed," he said. Such amendments to the Act include giving councils the opportunity to make submissions to the inspector in the preparation of the report. Recent amendments to the Act merely afford the council a 30-day opportunity to put its case to the minister after a report has been released. The council was sacked because of what was called serious negligence over a building development and because police could not interview its staff over allegations that a councillor was receiving bribes. question to be "relevant, succinct and By this time the House was in uproar and the Minister for Education, Mr Cavalier, became so excited that he stood up while the Speaker was standing only to be yelled back down into his seat by Opposition members shouting: "Chair, chair, chair." The Attorney-General's question was based on a private motion of Mr Murray's calling for a joint select committee into local government in NSW.

Knowing that the National Party leader was opposed to the nine non-endorsed Pittwater National Party candidates standing in the Warringah elections, Mr Sheahan asked Mr Murray if his proposed select committee should consider the role of political parties in local government. "There is no doubt that a joint select committee should be appointed to report on the appropriate role for local government in the State," Mr Murray said, avoiding the question. ROSS COULTHART SDI system by 1994, says US General CANBERRA: Dramatic progress in research in kinetic energy weapons could enable deployment of a partial Star Wars defence system by 1994, President Reagan's special arms control adviser, General Edward Rowny, said yesterday. General Rowny is visiting Tokyo, Seoul and Canberra to explain to America's allies why the Reagan Administration wants to begin early testing of the system known formally as SDI. General Rowny said the US now hoped to deploy kinetic weapons next year before taking a decision on whether to build a partial strategic defence system.

He told journalists that the US Government had determined that a "broad" interpretation of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which would allow testing of SDI systems, was legally correct. Lawyers were now studying any legal difficulties that could arise. The Minister-for Foreign Affairs, Mr Hayden, reaffirmed this week the Government's strong opposition to any US move to adopt a wider interpretation of the ABM Treaty. PATRICK WALTERS Loan TfermofLoan Loan Term of Loan Loan Term of Loan Amount 5 years 10 years 15 years Amount 5 years 10 years 15 years Amount 5 years 10 years 15 years fl 4 ij) J) ij) ij 5,000 126 89 79 15,000 377 266 237 25,000 628 443 394 9,000 227 160 142 18,000 453 319 284 30,000 754 531 473 10,000 252 177 158 20,000 503 354 315 40,000 1,005 708 630 12,500 I 314 I 222 197 22,000 553 390 347 50,000 1,256 885 788 The monthly repayments shown are a guide only and are based on the current interest rate of 17.5 p.a. (effective 1 November, 1986).

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