The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 11

Defendant 12 Th Sydney Morning Herald, fri. Sept 7. 1979 12 Campaign to counter blindness saia Iruro victims were rags court told areas. Bangladesh used to be called the Golden Bengal. it was once part of the granary of' India.

I believe it can become once again Golden Bengal." Dr Erwin was answering questions posed by three school children on the eye disease, xerophthalmia. It is caused by protein malnutrition and vitamin a deficiency and des'roys the eyes of young children in the rice-eating belt of the world. A UNICEF drive will try to raise 25 cents from each school student in Australia to provide high potency vitamin A capsules for the 17,000 Bansladesh children who will, it is estimated, go blind this year. The UNICEF drive states that 25 cents will save the eyesight of one child. The school children who questioned Dr Erwin are compiling a radio program for Children's Week in their classes at the Shopfront Theatre.

Dr Erwin spoke at the United Nations offices in Sydney to help UNlCEF's drive for funds for its Kids Care for Kids campaign. By SUSAN MOLLOY, Ethnic Affairs Reporter A doctor who once published a paper called Overweight, a Problem for Millions, has. for the past 20 months tried to overcome another problem that affects millions: starvation. Dr Michael Erwin. the UN ICE representative in Dacca, Bangladesh, says he has a "cautious optimism" about the future of the 55.000 square mile Moslem countrv with a population of 85 million.

"I believe we can produce more food, we can gradually educate people about familv planning," he said yesterday. "If you look at the situation on a day-to-day basis, you net very depressed. But since 1971 and its independence things have been changing. "I see what used to be stagnant ponds becoming fishing ADELAIDE. A woman told the Truro murders hearing yesterday that the defendant had told her that the victims "were not worth much." The witness, whose name was suppressed, said the defendant, James William Miller, had told her that girls picked up by him ana ai.o.hcr nau been ouilcj near Blanch-town.

Miller had described the girls as "rags," she said. The witness said the conversation she had had with -Miller had been fragmented and she could not remember it all. Miller, 39, unemployed, of no fixed address, is charged with the murders of: Veronica Knight, 18, near Truro, about December 23, 1976; Tania Ruth Kenny, 15, at Albert Park, about January 2, 1977; Juliet Helen Mykyta, 16, near Truro, about January 21, 1977; Vicki May Howell, 26, near Truro, about February 6, New library at Blacktown Construction of an IS. 000 sq. town's post office, is being built metre library at Blacktown bv Robert W.

Tims (Builders) began this week. Pty Ltd, at a cost of $645,000. The two-storey librarv at It is due to be finished by De- Westfield Place, near Black- cember21. Dr Michael Erwin, UNICEF representative for Bangladesh, is int erviewed by school children in the UN offices in King Street, City. 1977; Sylvia Michelle Pittman, lb, near 'Iruro, about February 6, 1977; Connie Iordanides, 16, near Truro, about February 9.

1977; Deborah Anne Lamb, 20, at Port Gawler, about February 12, 1977. The witness said her conversation with Miller had taken place in the back garden of her girlfriend's house on the afternoon of February 23, 1977, after the funeral of Christopher Robin Worrell, who had died in a car crash near Kingston four 1 days earlier. She earlier told the Adelaide Magistrate's Court she had known Worrell and Miller from about January 29, 1977. She said that after the funeral, Miller had been upset and had spoken to her in the kitchen of her girlfriend's home. The topic of conversation had been Christopher Worrell.

She said Miller had said: 'There's more to it than you know about." "I said-'what do you the woman said. "He said 'come out to th garden'." The woman then told the court certain evidence which the magistrate, Mr W. R. Harniman, SM, suppressed on the application of Miller's counsel, Mr K. P.

Duggan, QC, who was supported in his application by the Crown Prosecutor. Mr Duggan said the particular passage of evidence was unrelated to the charge. The woman said that after Miller had told her about the bodies being buried near Blanche-town, he had said "One of them even enjoyed it." She said Miller had not said what that referred to. He mentioned bodies? "Yes." Did he say anything about any method? "Something about a guitar string was mentioned." The witness said Miller had brought Worrell to her flat on Saturday, January 29, and also on the next day. The hearing continues today.

Port to stay closed 'indefinitely' A strike by 800 shipping clerks in the Port of Sydney will continue indefinitely, a spokesman for the Federated Clerks' Union said yesterday. 1 The spokesman said the strike, which began on Wednesday, will continue because the Consolidated Cargo Services depot at Rozelle has refused to withdraw termination notices given to six employees. On Wednesday night, a Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commissioner, Mr J. E. HefTernan, recommended that' the union end the strike and accept a modified proposal put by the employers.

However, the FCU committee of management decided yesterday to continue the strike and not call a mass meeting. The executive director of the Association of Employers of Waterside Labour, Mr David Erskine, said yesterday that continuing industrial disruption was putting the port's reputation in jeopardy. The spokesman said there were 22 ships in port, but by the weekend there would be even more anil none would be worked because of the strike. Because of a misprint, a report of this dispute published yesterday referred to "sick" clerks, instead of six clerks. Prisoner denies stabbing officer Cricket at crossroads, says Garo at the launching of his book With a Straight Bat in Sydney Sydney Morning Herald excerpts from the book in July).

Referring t0 the birth of WSC in 1977, when he was not part of the organisation, Mr Caro said he did not believe it was due to pique on the part of Mr Kerry Packer. "That was perhaps an element, but it was born from the view that Kerry Packer could not openly tender for the television rights," he said. Mr Caro said that the future of Australian cricket, would depend in 1979-80 on who was selected, although he did not believe there was any real friction among Australian players. But, he warned, there could be a danger of clashes between the players and the Australian Cricket Board over such matters as selections, team conditions and hotel accommodation. By BRIAN MOSSOP Cricket can go one of two ways as a result of World Series Cricket, according to Mr Andrew Caro, a former managing director of WSC.

It can either revert to a semi-amateur game or it can go in the direction of tennis, with players having a say in the marketing of the sport. And non-WSC players should strengthen themselves as a union by joining the Players' Association. Failure to do so could lead to problems. "Revenue has got to flow into the game and players have to receive a fair percentage of that revenue," Mr Caro said. "It is up to the players to ensure a good revenue flow and their own percentage of it." Mr Caro, who resigned from WSC at the end of the 1978-79 season after 12 months as managing director, was speaking MP calls for Vic privacy committee QV3 won you enjoy navsno A prisoner denied yesterday that he stabbed thr deputv superintendent of the Central Industrial Prison at Malabar.

Michael James Kain was making a statement in his defence from the dock of the Central Criminal Court. Kain, 47, has pleaded not guilty to wounding Allan Robert Crais with intent to murder him at Malabar on January 28. Kain has also pleaded not guilty to an alternative count of maliciously wounding Mr Craig with intent to do him grievious bodily harm. In his statement, Kain said he had gone to the deputy superintendent's office because he had an envelope which was addressed to a prisoner with the same name as his own but spelt dif'erently. While at the office he picked up some hair-cutting gear, which he put inside his shirt, and started to walk back to his wint.

Kain said he met Mr Craig who asked him if he had permission to be in the area, and then ordered him to stand and not to move. He knew Mr Craig was a martial arts expert and he and other prisoners tried to avoid him. Kain said Mr Craig ran a him and grabbed him and at the same time the box containing the haircutting gear, including a pair of scissors, fell from his shirt. "I didn't stab this man and I don't know how they (the scissors) got into his stomach I was trying to keep him away from me." Kain told the jury. In earlier evidence yesterday, Detective Sergeant K.

J. Roberts, of Randwick police, said Kain had admitted stabbing Mr Craig and claimed Mr Craig had broken his nose in an incident at the jail four years previously. Sergeant Roberts said when he asked Kain whether he intended to kill Mr Craig, Kain had replied: "It didn't matter to me if I did." The trial, which is before Mr Justice Cantor, will resume a 10 am today, India to get Aust coke NEW DELHI, Thursday. Th Indian Government has decided to import one million tonnes of coke from Australia to tide over the immediate shortage of coal in some areas of the country. The Minister of State for Steel, Mines and Coal, Mr P.

M. Sayeed, told reporters that steps were also being taken to speed up transportation of coal supplies throughout India. MELBOURNE. Victorians on police files are more likely to have their records disclosed to ol'ners than are people in other Australian States, a State Labor front-bencher claimed yesterday. The State Opposition's spokesman on law matters, Mr John Cain, said there was an urgent need for better controls on police issuing information about people on their files.

The distribution of information in Victoria appeared to be wider than in New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania and in Britain. "Considerably more employers in both the public and private sector get the information as a matter of course." Mr Cain, a lawyer, issued a 37-page report w'nich has taken him several months to research. He said a privacy committee similar to the one working in NSW should be set up immediately in Victoria. This should work towards introducing a Right to Privacy Bill. Introducing Tooth LA a great, full flavoured, draught beer, for real drinking satisfaction.

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