The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 13

II Th KuAu U.r.M t.f tmmt 4ft 1077 It lev inTuninJwnmi If 0 00 -r The Top End Dogs It's easier to catch the imperial thief 41 1 be paid about $36,000 a year, for being the Territory's "Preraier-in-waiting." was described this week by Darwin sources as a sound debater, a good and with the ability to look nonchalant asleep -even before seizing' the opportunity for the unexpected, pithy interjection. Mr Everingham will not lack employment bis "portfolio" takes in constitutional development, the law and the police, the Territory's Public Service and Aboriginal affairs. His deputy will be Mr Marshall Perron, who will be responsible for finance and planning. The former leader, Dr Letts, unexpectedly defeated in last month's election in his Victoria River electorate, has, say Territorians, taken his defeat "graciously" but has not decided what to do outside politics. Dr Letts; a veterinarian and a former Director of Agriculture in the NT, owns a beef property near Batchelor, south of Darwin.

THE NEW Liberal-Country. Party leader 0 the Northern Territory Legislative' 1 'Assembly. Mr Paul Everingham, is a chunky, 34-year-old lawyer who was sit-, ting on the back benches prior to the revcnt political demise of the former lead-' er. Dr Goff Letts. The Member for Jingili (a Darwin j'miburb), he entered the Assembly when the first fully elected chamber was voted in in quickly became deputy leader, only 2 to, the position in post-cyclone 1975 through the pressures of running a legal practice he has now disbanded in the wake of his new-found political eminence.

Mr Everingham, originally from In-nisfail, North Queensland, ran a legal business in Alice Springs for seven years before' trekking north up the Stuart Highway to Darwin in 1973., I lMr Everingham, who will, incidentally, about the problem and were surprised at the answer. "Where public safety is involved, imperial equivalents should also be givtn," said a senior spokesman for the i i ON Wednesday this week, three armed and masked men stole more' than 1 60,000 from the South Hurstville branch of' the Commercial Bank of Australia. Newspaper reports the next day described the robbers as 178. 173 and 168 cm tall. Really? As far as the editor of this column is concerned, that description could suggest either a giant or a midget.

One difficulty of the metrication program is that until people establish benchmarks, the new measurements are meaningless. And, although the Metric Conversion Board repeatedly appeals to the press to use metric measures, should descriptions of wanted criminals be couched in terms which many readers would barely comprehend? "It would be useful if the imperial measures were published after the metric figures." said Mr Bruce Howe, assistant secretary of the NSW Police AssociaCon. "I have no idea myself how tall I am in centimetres," he said. "Do you know your own height in metric measures?" Frankly, no. So we asked the Metric Conversion Board Mr Everingham Two seminars and something of a- pub-v tic debate on domestic dog control hav apparently, failed to clarify the RSPCA'S stance on the vexed question of dog control.

So much so that the society this week reiterated its recommendations for morei effective dog control in a large display d-'. vertisement placed in. two daily news- V' The society's public relations" officer, Miss Maree McCaskill, says the RSPCA -has been inundated with correspondence' from an awful lot of people, particularly, dog-breeders, "who have misunderstood the whole RSPCA policy, beyond all reason." Miss McCaskill says the. ads were aimed at influencing government, but to "get rid of daft, wrong interpretations." From recent correspondence Miss McCaskill says it appears that breeders believe the society wants, among other things, to bring in wholesale dog de-sexing regulations, to restrict each breed of dog to only two official breeders, and to take over the registry of pure-bred dogs. Miss McCaskill says that, in contrast to these misconceptions, society is confident that de-sexing can be encouraged simply by offering lower registration fees for desexed dogs.

The society does want the number of dog-breeders decreased but to limit a breed to just two breeders would be sure, she concedes, to lead to in-breeding. As for another popular myth which shey' believes has been adopted, that the society wants to hold the registration of pure- breeds, she is emphatic: "We have quite enough to do as it is." The society's viewpoint at the seminar called on the subject by the Minister for Local Government, Mr Jensen, was not made clear because "99 per cent of breeders who were there were too busy jeering and heckling to listen." The society's view was put again at a similar seminar last Wednesday in Wagga and Miss McCaskill is hoping that no more newpaper advertisements will be necessary. a 1 brD-FANCiERS will be glad to hear ttttat those 15 decoy rainbow lorikeets in-'stilled in Manly's Gilbert Park to lure (' wild lorikeets into a tourist attraction have already established a healthy dia- i logue wnat politicians mignt can 1 Believe it or not the Swiss navy Has just sailed in "jjank, useful discussions" with their wWd contemporaries. "jThe Manly lorikeet aviary was opened on August 24 and the theory is that 15 cased lorikeets, from Taronga Zoo, estab I Ar i Mwr uV- 1 1 owned by Helica B.V. of Geneva and is registered in Basle, Switzerland.

But how can a ship be registered in land-locked Switzerland, we demanded to know? "It's Just the place where it's registered," said a spokesman for Lloyd's Shipping Registrar. "Usually it's the ship's home port, but in this case it obviously can't get there." We are now scouring the skies in search of winged porcine beastics. WHEN we received a call this week telling us that the Swiss navy was. about to arrive in Australia, we naturally thought that some joker was under the impression that we are even more gullible than in fact we are. But the joke is on us.

The Swiss mercantile navy arrived at midnight last night in the shape of the General Guisan, a bulk carrier. The ship, which flies the Swiss flag, arrived at Port Kembla to pick up coal. It is board. "For example, flood levels have also been given in feet to help farmers. And the maximum height of vehicles that can pass under a bridge has also been given in iniper'al.

"When there's a dgerous criminal about, it would he desirable to give descriptions in both measures." Some of us diehard imperialists have not surrendered yet. Bring back the rack THE NSW Department of Corrective Services seemed to have done some impressive research into penal education overseas when it summarised the situation in its final submission for the Royal Commission into NSW Piisons. But all was revealed when Mr Dean Letcher, counsel for the Council for Civil Liberties, pointed out that the information was taken "holus bolus to the comma" from a 1973 Prison Journal article on penal education in America and In the final hearings last week, the department's use of dated information was again picked up, this time by Mr David Hunt, counsel assisting the commission. The department's statement that the majority of overseas penal institutions were against allowing conjugal visits turned out to be gleaned from a 1946 American article entitled Conjugal Visitation in Prisons. That article's conclusions were quite opposed to modern views put to the commission on its recent tour of America, Britain and Europe.

Of course, the department could always excel itself and really go back into the archives. There was a time when people were executed for stealing a sheep Diplomatic appointment TEHRAN, Tuesday. Iran has appointed Mr Khosrow Akmal as its hew Ambassador to Australia. lish rapport enough with the thousands of wfld lorikeets in the area for the latter to fefl familiar enough to partake of food currently being placed on the aviary roof. rThe curator of birds at Taronga, Kerry Muller, says that in about two months the captive lorikeets will be released as the nucleus of what is hoped will prove a colourful, educational and attractive addition to the Manly scene.

"At the moment the birds just aren't conditioned to look for food there," says Mr Muller. large Norfolk Island pines at Manly are an active resting place, but the lorikeets fly on off up the Warringah Peninsula as soon as it's light. "If the decoys get some of the wild ones interested in eating at the aviary then, once released, they and the 'converts' could gradually draw others. We would feed the lorikeets in the morning and. afternoon, so people could watch them feeding in daylight hours." As we said, phase one seems to be working.

The consultant to the Manly Tourist Promotions Committee, Rod Earle, reports: "Already you can hear them talking. You can pick up the dialogue quite clearly between the birds in the cage and those in the trees." Kiterf Her has some strong competition 1 3 lt'-t SMMb now a subject of soma Interest to the Federal Doing your own thing, the artistic way Legal aid PROSPECTIVE home-buyers seem, likely to benefit most from a new, free legal-advice service by the Law Society of NSW and due. to open on Tuesday at the Sydney Building Information Centre. The Law Society's legal-aid department will make a solicitor available at the centre between 1 am and 3 pm every Tuesday Jor a trial period of three months I Vv The society's deputy legal-aid manager, Mr Don Harley, says the service will complement the Sunday architectural advice scheme, already running at the centre by courtesy of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects. "The solicitor will advise people on any legal matter he feels competent to advise on, but we are expecting most queries to centre round the purchase and construction of homes," says Mr Harley.

Mr Harley hopes that one by-product of the new service, to be permanent provided it is a success, will be less "house contracts getting signed on car bonnets." The society's legal-aid service already deals with about 80 telephone calls a day at its Phillip Street branch, and' caters for about 20 clients a day who "walk in off the street." ERROL SIMPER Government. 1 1 fay-J. wr AMONG the grants listed in Artforce, the journal of the Australia Council, is the following 'strange; entry in the international section: "Peter Travis (Nfswi To assist Peter Travis to participate in world kite festivals in Amsterdam and Seattle. $4,000." This seemed to us a somewhat peculiar disbursement of public funds so we asked the Australia Council about it. A spokesman there seemed most hurt at our line of inquiry.

"On the surface, kites don't sound much, but if you'd seen Peter Travis's kites, you'd realise how good they are," he said. "It's an art form." No matter how good Mr Travis's kites' are, we know a few gentlemen in Macquarie aL mi tin I'wmii 'Jul .1 exercising their own creativity in their own way." Money could be made available through the board to help drama groups, wall designers and art workshops, to take professional companies and exhibitions to isolated areas or deprived regions, such as "sprawling suburbia." Mr Cameron says a committee has been responsible for community arts but creation of a board specifically for the job will remove community arts persons from any "second-class citizen image." Mr Cameron expects the board members to be named in about a month. The Arts FOR THOSE more interested than informed by the Prime Minister's announcement that a community arts board is to be set up within the Australia Council, it seems that the new board will cater largely for people "doing their own thing." The general manager of the Australia Council, Mr John Cameron, says the board will be "taking arts to the people and extracting arts from the people." If that isn't too definitive, Mr Cameron says the board will fry to help "people 7iT Peter Travis Street and Canberra who could teach him a thing or two. And the people we have in mind are accomplished artists at it, too. The Gilbert Park lorikeet aviary.

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