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MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1977 itttti 13 CENTS' 24 PAGES No. 43,569 TELEPHONE 2 0944 FIRST PUBLISHED 1831 LATE EDITION 13m IT I COLUMN FM stands firm om trade Inoido 1 today STUDENTS' GUIDE Surgery, shop wrecked by explosion I I'm But ASEAN to get early tariff warning From MIKE STEKETEE KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. -Australia is to set up an early warning system to. advise South-East Asian countries of any impending restrictions on imports from the region. But, in almost three hours of talks today with leaders of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, gave no guarantees of when or to what extent Australia would relax its trade barriers.

Increased tariffs and the imposition of import quotas on a wide range of cheaper goods by Australia has created ill-feeling among ASEAN members. Sk 1 in Good Street, Granville. 450,000 jobless warning The members of ASEAN arc. Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Thailand. Mr Fraser said details of how the early warning system would operate had to be worked out.

But a senior Indonesian minister emphasised the importance which South-East Asian countries placed on it. He told the Herald privately that Indonesia's understanding was that there would be prior consultation before Australia took any further moves to restrict imports. In other developments announced today: Australia will increase its existing level of aid to ASEAN countries bv S90 million to S250 million. The money has not been allocated for a specific period but Australian Government officials expect it will be given over three or four years. Australia will give S10 million for joint development projects under an ASEAN- Australia economic program, compared with S5 million allocated several years ago.

hewer restrictions will be placed on how Australia's aid is used. Further talks will be held on an annual ASEAN trade fair in Australia as a way of promoting experts from the region. Public criticism of Austra lia's trade policies has been muted during the two days which Mr Fraser has been in Kuala Lumpur for the first meeting ever held between Australian and ASEAN heads of Government. The communique issued after today's meeting said simply: "The ASEAN heads of Government, while appreciating the domestic economic problems faced bv Australia at the moment, expressed the aonofo nnnnc COMMONWEALTH Police have been investigating complaints from people who believed they had received forged $10 notes. The suspect notes carried Ihe words, "Commonwealth of Australia" on both sides instead of simply, "Australia." Column 8 could have told them the notes weren't fakes.

The "Commonwealth" designation was dropped by the Labor Government and has not been restored. The complaints followed the discovert of a number of $10 counterfeit notes in Melbourne last week. THERE'S a traffic hazard for the myopic at the corner of Elizabeth and Foseaux Streets. Eye level with the traffic lights at a pedestrian crossing is a green neon light at a bank which flashes on and off with the message: "Bank Early." Column 8 almost stepped in front of the traffic, thinking the red light had changed. TICKETS aren't the only thing to buy at Central Railway.

Column 8, intrigued by the Railwass' burgeoning services, played shop detective through the station walkways from Elizabeth to George Streets. In the food line you can buy everything from 40c worth of chips to a four-course sit-down meal in the cedar-lined cafeteria for S4.I5. YOU can weigh yourself for 7c, get a metal name tag (3c for 16 letters). Hire a stroller for S2 from the Traveller's Aid Society and shop at the chemist, newsagents, chocolate store, and if you wheel it from the country to the suburban platforms florist, engraver, stationer, hairdresser. dry-cleaner, shoe-repairer, watchmaker and tobacconist.

We even had our palm read electronically able, adaptable." Is the verdict ever otherwise?) If you only want a ticket they range in price from 2c (platform only) to S366 first-class to Perth. TOURISTS may be unfamiliar with native Australian animals, but the Wool Store at Centrepoint assumes too much by labelling all its beautiful souvenirs "Aussie Koala Bear." be they kangaroos, plats puses or koalas! There is, sve are told, a shortage of labels, and somewhere, it seems, a shortage of Aussie initiative. 1IIERK was one happy ending to the recent hcadlice outbreak. CSV (Australia) Pty Ltd. which markets A-200, the lice treatment recommended bv the Health Commission, cleaned up in more wass than one.

Within a matter of weeks of the louse infestation, ihe ncsv product had accounted for a whole year of expected sales. rts 8 Comics Crossword 18 Finance 1 Law Notices 10 Look! 10 Mails 11 Motoring 11 Shipping 11 Snow report 10 Sport 17-20 Television, radio lift-out between 10 and 1 1 Weather 10 FORT DENISON: High 2.46 am (I.I metres). 3.32 pm (1.4 metres). Low 8.49 am (0:5 metres), 10.04 pm (0.6 metres). SUN: Rises 6.42, sets 5.20.

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1 The shattered greengrocer's Hayden predicts 1978 gloom 337.391 in July, which is 5.4 per cent of the workforce. Speaking on 2KY. Mr Hayden said this required Government intervention on two fronts to "alleviate the intense, painful effects of unemployment and the breakdown of business" and to start a retraining and relocation scheme. This could be done by Government spending, "carefully selected" and "closely regulat A special two-page feature outlining bursaries, allowances, scholarships and study grants covering schools, universities and colleges. Plus detailed information on when to apply, where, and what they are worth.

Pages 12,14. Tomorrow 8-PAGE CAREER GUIDE A vital guide for school leavers and parents giving details of more than 100 jobs. Helpful advice on careers, apprentice-ships and training with expert guidance on a variety of subjects. Ption 20944 to hava tha Harald dativarad: If a aaaiar Hit twice by same bullet Darrcll Glen Starkey, 19, of South Hurstville was wounded twice by the same bullet in a shooting accident near Bathurst at the weekend. The accident occurred while he was shooting on a property in the Upper Turon area, several kilometres from Sofala, on Saturday.

Starkey was climbing up a steep slope when he slipped on a wet rock. As he fell, he dropped a .22 rifle he had been carrying. The rifle The bullet went through his left elbow, ricocheted off a nearby rock and hit him again, this time in the thigh. Starkey was taken to Sofala Hospital and then to Bathurst District Hospital, where the bullet was removed. He was allowed to leave after further treatment.

Today's weather Metropolitan: Cool, sunny Max. City and Liverpool 18. NSW: Dry, cool to mild Some morning frosts and fogs. Details page 10. COLDEST YESTERDAY Thredbo minus 5, Tcntcr-ficld, Perisher Valley minus 3, Inverell minus 2.

Metropolitan: minimum recordings: Bankstown, Richmond 2, Mascot 6, Liverpool 7, Sydney 8. Late news AUSTRALIA LANCASHIRE AUSTRALIA 1st Innings SF.RGEANT Lvm Wood 12 HUGHES not out 51 ROBINSON not out 1 Sundries 15 Three wickets for 143 New Iran PM forms Cabinet TEHRAN. Sunday. Trans new Prime Minister, Dr Jamshid Amouzcpar, anno' need a new Cabinet today. The former Minister of vSti' in charge of planning and ihe budget, Mr Madjid Mudjidi, and the former Energy Minister, Mr Par-viz Hekmat were dropped from the new Government.

Earlier report, page 5. I 7 strong wish to increase their share of trade with Australia." However, the final wording of the communique was a compromise between that suggested by the ASEAN and Australian sides. There were long discussions between officials on the wording of the section, with the ASEAN side proposing a stronger statement of concern ocr Australian trade policies. The phrasing of today's communique contrasted with that issued last Friday after the meeting of ASEAN leaders between themselves. This called on developed countries to take immediate steps to rcmoc protectionist measures.

At the same time, a report by economic ministers to last week's ASEAN summit said each member country should consider drawing up a list of imports from Australia which co aid be restricted. At his press conference after today's talks. Mr Fraser gave little ground oft the issue. "I think it is understood that ASEAN trade with Australia has been increasing very rapidly indeed at the rate of about 30 per cent a year in the last four or five years. "The trade imbalance against ASEAN has fallen from 3.5 to one to about 2 to one.

"Some people do not understand the employment and social consequences that would flow from a dismantling of Australian industry. "I am completely confident that the heads of Government of ASEAN do understand the consequences very well indeed." Mr Fraser is scheduled to have talks with the Japanese Prime Minister, Mr Fukuda, today. PAGE 3: Fraser cautions on Soviet arms growth; Australia to take more refugees. ship to rates of unemployment than we have been used to. "But something can be done quite effectively against both these things if the Government is prepared to act." Mr Hayden said young people 12 per cent of the population and 311 per cent of the unemployed were liml-ing it much harder to find employment.

He saw good types of oung people not long-haired, lo.ifing-on-the-heaeh pes which were used as a diversion by the iovcrnment looking for ork. "The people that the future belongs to, but they are not getting any future now." The community needed to re-think its attitude towards the unemployed because there was a lot of selfish antagonism directed to the unemployed from those with jobs. with the response from big businesses," Mr Irs in said. "We were expecting sums of S5.000 or to conic from businesses, but sve have had none so far." The appeal ends on Friday. If the reward is not paid, the money will be returned to donors.

The State (iovcrnment has announced a reward of 2 5. 000. IN SPORT: Only $12,000 for Mackay reward ti J. RJx I shop and doctor's surgery or cd'' to avoid aggravating inflation. "The important thing is that in the short term the outlook isn't very pleasant in fact it is grim and in the long term we are going in has higher about SI 00.0(H) when he asked the Premier, Mr Wran.

for permission to hold the appeal. Money had come from all over Australia in small amounts. Three tills of SI. 000 had conic from Griffith people, but many locals would not give money until thev were assured that names of donors were not being published. "I hac been disappointed Aboriginal aide for Viner An Aboriginal has been appointed a private secretary to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs.

Mr Viner. He is Mr Robert Winroe, 29, from Perth, svho takes up his appointment today. Mr Winroe was Officcr-in-chargc of the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations' Aboriginal employment section. Sir Lincoln Hynes dies Sir Lincoln Hynes, the chairman of the Royal North Shore Hospital and a former radio and television executive, died yesterday after a long illness. Sir Lincoln, 65.

was prominent in cricket in the 1930s as an NSW fast bowler. Report Page 3. VSf: Mr Hayden Police believe it was arson An explosion and fire destroyed a surgery and a shop and damaged three other shops in Granville early yesterday. Police said they suspected arson. Detectives and a Mines Department inspector found an "inflammable substance" in the remains in Good Street.

They expect to name the substance today. A real estate agency and two vacant shops were damaged. Fire brigades from Parra-matta. Silverwatcr. Guildford and Mcrrylands fought the lire for about 45 minutes.

Debris and broken glass were blown over the road bv the explosion which is he lies ed to base happened behind one of the shops. Dr Jacob Joseph, of Seven Hills, who operated the urge-iv. said yesterday that he did not know sshy ansonc would to blosv up any of the damaged shops. But he said there had been break-ins nearby before. Dr Joseph svill move to a (hop over the road from his old surccrv.

but he said. "I will most probably Jones, said alter vesterday's match. In a sensational aftermath to the match, the referee. Kevin Roberts, told Canterbury officials he intended to cite the club's five-eighth Garry Hughes. The pair had clashed verbally after the game.

St George, Easts. Balmain and Manly are likely to join Parramatta in the semi-finals. Match reports. Pages 18 and 20. New champion WEST BERLIN.

Sunday. The Australian "Rocky'' Mat-tioli won World Boxing Council ssorld light-middleweight crown last night. Report, Page 20. The Federal Government has been told the unemployment rate for the January-February period of next year is quite likely to be seven per cent 450,000 people the Federal Opposition spokesman on economic management. Mr Hayden, said last night.

Mr Hayden said the Government had been advised bv both the Department of Labour and Industrial Relations and the Treasury of the expected unemployment rate. He said the "quite likely" sugested figure could be higher than the seven per cent. "This implies that the calendar sear of 1978 is not going to be a very pleasant year at all. We will have higher rates of unemployment much higher than we have now and in turn that indicates that the economy will be jammed in stagnation," he-said. "In the longer term there arc serious structural problems going to take place within the economy which suggest that we will have higher rates of unemployment than what we have been used to in what we would normally regard as a fully employed economy.

"In the past the rale of unemployment in a fully employed economy has been about 1.5 per cent. Economists arc now talking in terms of three per cent." Unemployment reached guard the helicopter carrying the Queen from Britannia. About 20 known Provisional IRA supporters have been rounded up and detained under the Emergency Powers Act. Under the Act police are allowed to hold a person for seven days without charges being brought. AAP reports that the operation to safeguard the Queen is expected to cost the British taxpayer near 1 million ($1.5 million).

A Labour member of Parliament, Mr Marcus Upton, made a public plea yesterday to the Prime Minister, Mr Callaghan. to stop the visit because "the Queen should not be exposed to these unknown but all too present risks." The IRA's weekly news Mr Fraser and the Foreign Minister, Mr Peacock, at their meeting with ASEAN leaders. Parramatta are minor premiers Security build-up for Ulster visit The public appeal to raise a rew ard for informal ion leading to the solution of the disappearance of Mr Don Mackay, the Griffith a 1 1 drus campaigner, has raised only SI 2,000. Mr Bob Irvin, the president of Wade Shire, which centres on Grillith. said yetcrday that he was disappointed at the response.

He had hoped for Queen paper, Republican Nesvs, has printed an unflattering picture of the Queen next to three photographs of victims of violence. The heading quoted her as saying: "I cannot forget that I was crossned Queen of England and Northern Ireland," and the newspaper added in bold type "she won't." A scries of bomb hoaxes in Belfast yesterday kept British security forces on the alert. The visit comes in one of the most volatile weeks in the Ulster year, sandwiched between the 6th anniversary of internment on Tuesday and the Dcrry apprentice boys parades on Friday. Both dates have triggered oil violence in the past. (AAP-kcuier) Missile LONDON, Sunday.

A Royal Navy guided-mis-sile destroyer will escort the Royal Family when they sail for Ulster tomorrow in the royal yacht Britannia. The escort will be part of a massive security operation to ensure their safety during the two-day Jubilee visit to the province. The County Class destroyer HMS Fife will be armed with ship-to-air missiles and a Wes-scx anti-submarine helicopter. Security chiefs in Ulster are not forgetting how Irish Republican Army (IRA) supporters hijacked a helicopter and dropped bombs on the Ulster border town of Stra-bane, the Sunday Express said today. The Queen's sons, Prince Andrew, 17, and Prince Edward, 13.

will stay on board Britannia in Belfast Lough throughout the visit. When the Queen and Prince Philip go ashore they will be guarded by a cordon of troops, police part-time reservists and under-cover agents. More than 30,000 troops and police have been put on alert, following IRA threats of a campaign of violence to coincide with the visit. The IRA has already announced it will make the Queen's visit "a day to remember" and nobody believes the threat is an idle one. The troops and poiicc were reinforced yesterday by 500 Scots Guards.

When Britannia arrives at Belfast on Wednesday naval frogmen and sonar underwater detection devices will keep a constant guard. The coastline will be patrolled by the Army, following last week's claim that the IRA was considering a rocket attack on Parramatta won their initial first-grade Rugbv League minor premiership ssith a bruising 17-12 win over Canterbury-Bankstosvn at Cumberland Oval yesterday. With the club championship already theirs. Parramatta nosv hase their sights fixed on winning the first-grade premiership. "We hase cleared the first two hurdles, but nosv the big one is ahead of us." Parra-matta's secretary, Mr Bob Same team LONDON, Sunday.

England have ictaincd the same side for the fourth Test against Australia at Heading-Icy, starting on Thursday. Keport, Page 20 1.

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