The Age from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Page 5

THE AGE, Tuesday, May 1, 1979 -5 Green thumbs an aid to mental health Wran gets bribery report treatment of the mentally and physically handicapped. In Victoria horticultural therapy is used in many institutions by the Education Department in some of its special schools for the intellectually handicapped, in homes for the and by the St John of God Brothers among handicapped adults at "Yarra View" in Lilydale. 'With manic patients gardening is peaceful and puts them at rest," Mrs. Chapman says. But most important, "it brings back a dignity" of To others, the one or two hours a-week -spent potting plants and tending shrubs in the small hospital greenhouse may be the regeneration of an old skill The medical profession knows these patients as psycho-geriatrics.

In other words, they are elderly people with a variety of mental disorders. Some suffer schizophrenia, others have- different forms of dementia including the brain-damaging effects of alcoholism. In practical terms, says Mrs. Chapman, their disabilities affect their at tention span and ability to perform certain tasks. Gardening is one of a host of occupational therapies available to the patients at Willsmere.

Others are painting, spinning, weaving and basket-making. Yesterday six patients, men and women, sat in the afternoon sun potting i pepperomias, impatients and coleus plants. In the greenhouse there are small beds of seedlings and shrubs already potted. Horticultural therapy, as it is called, has a well-established place in the By PHILIP MclNTOSH Mrs. Eleanor Le Grand is annoyed when public holidays fall on Mondays.

Like many day patients at Willsmere. Psychiatric Hospital in Kew, Mrs. Le Grand's Mondays take pride of place in her week. It is her gardening day and if it is a holiday she misses out. Mrs.

Shirley Chapman, one of the occupational therapists at Willsmere, explains that many of her green thumb patients no longer have the luxury of their own garden. i r- A miniature Laker's II id ingot pure go Experts clear heaters The Health Commission yesterday gave an assurance that electric heat banks insulated with asbestos were safe. The assistant director of underTO for SYDNEY. A Government cover-up of police bribery and corruption is alleged in a coded confidential report given to the NSW Attorney-General, Mr. Walker, and the Premier, Mr.

Wran. The report, prepared by Crown prosecutor. Mr. J. H.

Lawrence, also contains allegations of widespread bribery of senior detectives and police officers, and police conspiracies to cover up a million dollar car stealing racket in Sydney in 1971-72. Mr. Lawrence prepared the report in November, 1977. It was delivered to Mr. Walker's private secretary with specific instructions for a copy to be given to Mr.

Wran. But so far the Government has not asked Mr. Lawrence to act on any of the 24 recommendations and suggestions in the report. These recommendations include prosecutions de-laved against two rfpfprfi ft ctieap link public health, Dr. Graham By GERRY CARMAN (fr Occupational therapist Mrs.

Shirley Chapman, right, with patient Eileen Rogerson. Rouen, saia: "iney wouia constitute no hazard to users." But tests by the commission last August detected low level emissions of asbestos from two brands of heat bank, Potterton and Auto-hot. Tests with fine membrane filters detected .002 asbestos fibres, in a milli-litre of air in the atmosphere around the two heaters. This is one thousandth of the level the commission has set as the safety standard for exposure to asbestos in industry. FATHER HITS INTERFERENCE Last body at Truro identified Australians will soon be able to fly to London via the United States for as much as $90 cheaper than the present lowest fares.

Laker Airways is preparing brochures explaining how travellers flying Continental Airlines to the United States can link up with its Skytrain service. Sir Freddie Laker's personal assistant, Mrs. Robin Flood, said the Sydney-London fare would be $19 to $90 cheaper, depending on seasonal fluctuations, than the lowest advance purchase fares offered by Qantas and British Airways. But reservations can't be made for the nightly Skytrain service from Los Angeles. Passengers arriving from Australia at 10 am face long waits, possibly up to two days.

Continental joins Qantas and Pan Am on the Pacific route with its first flight to Sydney on Thursday. Continental's vice president and managing director South Pacjfic, Mr. Jack Tobin, said yesterday his airline had been "overwhelmed" with "bookings. "Two months ago we would have been gratified to start making a profit by December. It is quite apparent that we will make a profit from day one." Mr.

Tobin said Continental had started tapping the vast reservoir of southern and inland America for tourists. The airline serves about 60 inland US cities and, in its application to start a service to Australia, stressed its ability to bring over "new" tourists. Mr. Tobin said about 60 per cent of people booked to travel to the US in the first month were Americans who obviously, came to Australia by other airlines but preferred to return with Continental. Continental's four flights weekly to Honolulu and Los Angeles will leave Sydney at 9.15 am crossing the Pacific in daylight.

Two flights will stop at Nadi, Fiji, and two at Pago Pago, American Samoa. The ABC miniature gold ingot is smaller than our famous Va oz. ingot but just as pure it's Australian 'Bullion Companv Four Nines gold, 99.99 pure gold, just like the big investment ingots. On fine solid link 1 8 carat gold chain $95. Ingot on men's length chain $99.

As tie pin for men or stick pin for women with push-on keeper $65. "These levels are at the sergeants for perverting the course of justice, soliciting and accepting bribes. Mr. Lawrence asked Mr. Walker for a direction whether to re-start charges against a detective sergeant stifled by a Minister of the Crown in 1973.

The names of those involved were in code in the report. The report alleges that members of the NSW motor squad of the CIB were paid weekly sums of between $500 and $1000 by those involved in the car stealing racket. The alleged racket was discovered by Deputy Chief Superintendent Reginald Douglass in a five-year Aiicfmlinn I iui I nu3iiauoii minimi i rVtimvimDfirl t-ii ll jjjjj lowest limit of detection," Dr. Rouch said. The assurance came after a health group detected asbestos dust in two Melbourne houses with Potter-ton heat banks.

The Workers Health Action Group claimed that the construction of the Potter-ton heater allowed hot air to blow across loosely packed asbestos. Potterton, a British com l)al2Cl House 4hl Burke Street Melbourne lei Open r.irtr.i!ie II las IK Hiahi'ib Siicci H.ihan Horn U-1 II navin i asi Imi'llii Ansett slashes holiday costs ADELAIDE. "I believe if the Community Welfare Department had not interfered with our family life, Connie would be alive today." Mr. Iordanis lordanides, 43, father of Connie Iorda-nides, 15, whose skeleton was found in a Truro paddock on Thursday, yesterday spoke bitterly about his daughter's disappearance two years ago. "I really believe that.

I strongly believe it, because Connie would not have been allowed out that night, and that's what counts at the moment," he said. He said pressure from Department of Community Welfare workers had eroded his parental authority with Connie and that had led him to make a decision on the night she disappeared that he would not have otherwise made. Mr. lordanides said Connie had. without his knowledge, left home and sought protection with, the department in April, 1976, following family rows.

"She went on the advice from girlfriends at school and complained about a million things Greek parents, family doesn't love her, and so on," he said. Mr. lordanides said the department had put Connie, then 14, into a foster home and on the contraceptive pill without telling him. However, he said, the department had made conditions upon her return two months before the abduction. "She came back on certain conditions, that we accept all her friends, that we should allow Connie to go out on any night and let her do this and let her do that," he said.

"Naturally, because of this, Connie was treated differently in normal circumstances she would never have gone out that night to the drive-in." I HOI DSWORTH BKOS l-avllaml Fran Central Bassuie. ROSS SOVn IIAVi.l.l IRS Cvhinj: I pany, closed its Sydney factory in 1973. Please send me hi return mail GnM lr.y sola! Jink IXsarai with bookings after advertising its holiday packages in conjunction with the IGokl liicm men's lenirlh IXct chain saw i- i s.s new super APEX fares. A State Electricity Commission spokesman said yesterday that about 3000 Potterton heat banks had been sold in Melbourne. Other brands had also also used asbestos insu IllOki I Il-pm Slum I ly.t i AtlitM ml loi insiiri-il psi I eiielnse heiuiPtsjl Mimes Hiler l.

A TAA spokesman said their packages extended to every holiday destination in Vicki May How.ll ADELAIDE. Police late last night named the fourth victim found at Truro. She was Vicki May Howell. 26. of Anzac Highway Kurralta Park, Adelaide, who was last seen leaving her flat on February 2, 1977.

The cause of death is still unknown. Mrs. Howell was separated from her husband and two children. II Print award Alex Wabinsky, 21, received the Fred J. Nicoll Memorial Award for his efforts in third-year photo-engraving last night at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Mr. Wabinsky, who works for Gravure Services Pty. Ltd-, Moorabbin, spent three years at the Melbourne College of Printing and Graphic Arts. Name Ansett Airlines and resorts on the Gold Coast, the Barrier Reef and Northern Queensland have combined to cut some holiday package costs by up to $230. The off-peak deal links up with the airline's new super APEX 40 per cent discount fare, iwhich is available for 169 days of the year.

The packages must be booked 45 days in advance and cover at least seven days at the resort. Based on a seven-day stay, Melbourne people can have an all inclusive Barrier Reef holiday for $54 a day. The combined super APEX package is available between May 27 to August 3, August 27 and November 30 and January 28 to April 1. TAA has been swamped Australia. But in some instances the Ansett rates lation before 1974.

A spokesman for the were slightly cheaper. I Addrcv. union group, Dr. David Kil The TAA packages amount to accommodation I I Patrick, said yesterday that if the heat banks emitted detectable fibres they Pnslal savings of up to 30 per "BBB5303M cent in some cases. should be modified.

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