The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 3

'1 From NEIL O'REILLY Dunstan Labor Government of South Australia has been returned to office with an increased majority. is 1 i "fe, 1 tj -If 'life Css. -I Opposition Leader, Mr Tonkin No 96 star Arnold Feather married for the fourth time yesterday only this time it was the real thing. InHIIII VIII llmyl II Nil II II II Hill for TV. era SA Premier, Mr Dunstan Democrats polled up to 8 per cent of the vote, but their results were disappointing for them.

The Labor Party's gains were made in the metropolitan and outer metropolitan areas. However, it did make an improved showing in some country electorates. In the old Parliament, Mr Dunstan had 24 seats, compared with 21 for the Liberal Party, one National Country Party and Mr Millhouse. The Liberal vote overall increased by about 12 per cent. Absence But this was due to the absence of the breakaway Liberal movement, which Feather, alias actor Jeff Kevin, 33, married Suzanne Church, 25, who played the girl next door, Jane Chester, in the popular television serial.

The faces of some of the guests were familiar, but the setting was far removed from the scruffy Paddington block of flats where Feather loved and lost for five years. "And that was the way we wanted it," said Jeff, dapper as ever in a black, three-piece suit adorned with a most un-Arnold touch a lush yellow rose in his button-hole. It was a country wedding with costumes straight out of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and with a stud farm outside Picton for a stage. But the star-studded guest list, including No 96 colleagues Carole Raye, Bunny Brooke, Elaine Lee, Thelma Scott and Sheila Keneally, made it television's wedding of the year. And unlike Arnold's forays into television matrimony, his real-life marriage was intended to last, he said.

The couple met when Suzanne moved into With more than half the votes- counted, the Labor Party had polled 54 per cent of the votes, a swing of 5 per cent on the 49 per cent polled in 1975. In the new Parliament, Mr Dunstan is likely to have 28 seats, compared with 24 previously. The Liberal Party is expected- to have 17, compared with 21. There will 4 be one National Country Party member to retain his seat, and the Leader of the Australian Democrats, Mr Robin Millhouse, is expected to hold his seat with the aid of Labor Party preferences. The Liberal Party waged a strong campaign against Mr Millhouse in the hope of defeating him.

In other electorates, candidates endorsed by Mr Don Chipp's Australian in 215 mph run on dam Sydney power boat driver Ken Warby became Australia's fastest man afloat when he travelled at 215.094 mph on Blowering Dam yesterday. Warbv made his run in his jet-powered Spirit of Australia on the dam, which is about 1 1 km from Tifmut. The new speed puts Warby within striking distance of the world water mph, held by Lee Taylor, mph, held by Lee Taylor Warby brought his West-inghouse jet-powered Spirit of Australia to the dam site on Friday night. He had hoped to run soon after dawn yesterday, but was delayed by official complications and rough water. Finally, he put the tonne, 9-metre hydroplane into Blowering Dam and fired up the Westinghouse J34 jet engine which is nor mally used to power Neptune bombers.

With 3,500 lb of thrust thumping his lanky frame back into the tiny driver's seat, he hurtled down the dam and back again to complete the two-way run through the official quarter mile. another holiday, that her Speedboat Ml in mm had candidates in the 1975 election. In that election, the Liberal movement polled 17 per cent of the votes, which indicates that the Liberal Party has not regained all the support of the former Liberal movement. The country vote overall showed a big increase in the Labor Party's percentage vote. This was due mainly to large increases in a number of electorates in which the Dunstan Government campaigned strenuously.

The Liberal Party also lost the seat of Goyder to an Independent Liberal. The Independent, a former Liberal MLA, stood against the endorsed candidate when he did not obtain party endorsement. "Do you hear but can't understand?" Australia's National Hearing Aid Specialists for over 50 years ANG9 Alderman Leo Port easily Mayor of Sydney in yesterday's retained his position as Lord local government elections. those well-known flats in 1975. But their future home will be far from the Godolfus "deli." Suzanne said they were looking for a house in the country because they were both "country people at heart." IMI 9 IP With 2,824 votes about 10 per cent of the total counted last night, the Mayor and leader of the Community Service group, Aid Gordon Fetterplace had 624, while the No 1 on the Labor Party ticket, Mr Jack Carter had 719.

In NEWCASTLE, Australia's first woman Lord Mayor, Alderman Joy Cummings, was almost assured of a new three-year term following yesterday's popular vote. With more than 18,000 votes counted Aid Cummings, the ALP candidate, had polled 11,287 against a combined total of 7333 for her three opponents. Cont. on page 46. It was there, during HEARING PEARL 10 WORN COMPLETELY IN YOUR EAR No cords, no wires, no tubes.

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In neighbouring Mar-rickville and Canterbury, a see-sawing pattern developed in early counting. Observers said that several of the sitting Labor candidates appeared early to be in trouble in Mar-rickville, but were recovering as counting progressed throughout the night. In Canterbury one of the areas holding a "popular Mayoralty" contest a similar patlern developed. At CAMPBELLTOWN, the heads of both the rival ALP and Community Service factions of the Council appeared certain to be elected. coming week, are expected to favour the ruling Civic Reform group by a large margin.

When counting closed last night, Labor seemed certain of six seats on the 15-man council, and Civic Reform seven seats. Early returns for the optional-vote polls on the issue of council amalgamations indicated a huge majority of voters against any such plans. IN ASHFIELD, the Mayor, Alderman Lew Herman was returned easily and early figures showed a pronounced swing to Labor throughout the municipality. In his own ward at Ashfield, Alderman Her But it may be days or longer before he will know which party gains control of the City Council. Both Aid Port's Civic Reform Association and the challenging Labor Party declared the result would be a "cliff-hanger." Elsewhere in Sydney, Labor candidates made strong gains and the ALP seemed set to return from the wilderness to which it was sent by local government voters during the Whitlam era.

Some four million voters were eligible to vote in yesterday's council elections throughout NSW. But in metropolitan area, council staff reported turn-outs varying between 60 and 70 per cent. In the prestige City Council poll: a flood of postal votes to be counted in the next few days will decide the outcome. Only about 14,500 voters less than half of those eligible voted in the City election. Almost 10,000 postal votes, to be counted in the Primess my return to bland your home.

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Princess Margaret and Roddy Llewellyn, her regular companion for 18 months, may be planning a holiday together in the Caribbean, the Daily Mirror reports. The princess, who separated from her husband, Lord Snowdon, last year, is believed to be planning a three-week stay on the island of Mustique, the paper says. friendship with Roddy Llewellyn blossomed. The couple have only just returned to London from a short stay in Scotland. A spokesman at Clarence House, Princess Margaret's home, said last night: "It is a possibility that Mr Llewellyn may go to Mustique.

The princess will invite whom she chooses." THE SUN-HERALD, SEPT 18, 1977.