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4 THE AGE, Saturday 7 November 1981 Chang es urged on Bribe mmmmmmm ought was War veterans' children to be studied SYDNEY. Foundation 41 is to conduct the first scientific ged handicapped a i I s' A for lea witness se: from MICHELLE RATTAN CANBERRA. The Minister forj; Social Security, Senator Ohaney, will soon consider two confidential reports recommending changes in Federal programmes for. the aged and therhandicappedJ The reviews have been prepared in a highlv unusual way: by committees of officials chaired by a Liberal backbencher. Senator Chaney ordered the reports and another review on child care several months ago but did not announce them at the time.

The child care inquiry, led by a New South Wales MHR, Mr John Spender, has alreadv been finished and Senator 'Chaney plans to adopt one of its key recommendations: a $300,000 pilot financing scheme for commercial child care centres. The report has caused a furore among child care lobby groups. The committee on the handicapped, headed by Mr Murray Sainsbury (NSW) has completed its report, while the inquiry on the aged, chaired by Mr John Hodges (Qld), has been winding up its work this week. The Sainsbury "and Hodges inquiries have been going on for sevf ral months, but there appears to; he no plan to release their re ports. Neither Mr Sainsbury nor Mr Hodges would comment yesterday, saying the reviews were confidential.

The investigation into programmes for the aged is examining accommodation, domiciliary care, and part of the nursing home programme, but is not looking at pension payments. ,1116 study of assistance to the handicapped has reviewed subsidies to hostels, therapy centres, schools, and holiday camps, as well as sheltered employment allowances and children's Officials on the teams come from the Social Security Department itself and the social welfare secretariat, which is located within that department. The secretariat, a research body, has been researching needs-based welfare. Senator Chaney, who has repeatedly said that the welfare system should concentrate its efforts on those most in need, is known to be highly mv pressed with some of the secretariat's work. However, it is not known whether the Hodges and Sainsbury reports call for changes to make programmes more needs-based.

Senator Chaney said last night that the reports had the same status as any "departmental advice which remain confidential. siuay oi me cnuiiren oi Vietnam veterans to determine the effect Agent Orange has on their chromosomes. The foundation says that all studies up until now have simply followed families and examined the children for abnormalities. Dr William McBride, who" established the link between birth defects and thalidomide-, said yesterday that a two-month i study had been completed. The main study, which will in- volve 250 children of veterans' and 250 other children of match- ing ages, will take about a year.

Foundation 41, established by-Dr McBride about 10 years ago to research the causes of birthr defects, will finance the research, expected to cost $100,000. It ap-' proached the Department ofo Veterans' Affairs for a grant, but', was rejected. Check on planes SYDNEY. All Beechcraft King--Air and Queen Air planes are to be inspected for airworthiness, before they are flown this weekiv end, after a directive from the: Department of Transport. The order follows a crash the United States earlier this-month in which the pilot of twin-engine Beechcraft was kill-" ed.

An investigation a bolt failed, causing the aiN' craft to lose part of a wing. A Beechcraft King Ail1, crashed at Sydney Airport on 21 February last year, killing 13" people. $40,000. He had previously supplied Mr Rothstein with offal to make sausages. Mr Morgan said -he told Mr Rothstein that he' thought he could get the lease of an abattoir and could return the loan in five years by again supplying Mr Rothstein with offal.

He said that at first he had refused to tell Mr Rothstein where the abattoir was. Later, in 1954, he had told him that it was in Richmond. Mr Morgan said he had negotiated with Richmond council between 1954 and 1961 for the abattoir lease without success "because there was a communist councillor who wouldn't agree to lease the abattoir Mr Morgan told the inquiry he had spoken to Mr Rothstein during that time about the loan and had supplied Mr Rothstein with figures on how the abattoir could be profitable. He said that in 1961 Mr Towers informed him that the council was ready to lease the abattoir but "money would be Mr Morgan said he had spoken to Councillor Loughnan who said 7500 would be needed. The figure was later increased because "there was a new crowd in the "He said a crowd called Protean had entered the tendering so the price went up 12,000.

I'd never heard of Protean." Mr Morgan said he went to a meeting of tenderers and the council in 1961 where he saw an engineer, Mr Jack Wrout, who told him he was acting for East Preston Animal By-Products, which he understood to mean By PAUL ROBINSON A former State Labor MP told a tenderer for the Richmond council abattoir that he would have to pay a bribe to lease the abattoir, a board of inquiry was told yesterday. Mr Arthur Edward Morgan, meatworks consultant, of Lower Plenty Road, Rosanna, told the inquiry into allegations of corruption and electoral malpractice at Richmond council, that he agreed in 1961 to pay a councillor 7500 for the abattoir lease. Mr Morgan said he had been told by a former MLA for Richmond, Mr Bill Towers, to contact Councillor Jim Loughnan, of Richmond council, Councillor Loughnan had told him he would have to pay 7500 for the lease. Mr Morgan told the inquiry that Mr Loughnan informed him later that the price had risen to 12,000 because other tenderers had entered the bidding. "It was a sling on the side for the abattoirs," he said.

Mr Morgan told the inquiry that Councillor Loughnan had told him the money was "for the He understood this to mean the other Richmond councillors. Mr Morgan said he first became interested in the Richmond abattoir when he operated a meatworks in Preston between 1948 and 1951. In 1952 he got into financial difficulties over a property transaction. After he had been put into receivership he went to Mr Alec Rothstein, who operated the East Preston Animal By-Products company, to ask for a loan of Protean. Mr Morgan, who said he was a declared bankrupt," was tendering on behalf of" the late Mr Max Seigal.

The inquiry has been told that the Rothstein family operates Protean. Mr Morgan told the inquiry that when he found out who was behind Protean he had said: "They're a nice lot of They make a promise then they double-cross you." Mr Morgan said he had never assumed that Protean had bribed Richmond council because Councillor Loughnan had asked him for money for the abattoir lease. He told the inquiry that the Seigal tender amounted to 15,505, whereas the Protean tender was 15,500 plus 10,000 a year for capital improvements to the abattoir; Mr Morgan told Mr -Alastair Nicholson, Q.C., chairman of the inquiry, that the Seigal tender was so close to the Protean tender because Councillor Loughnan had told him how much Protean had bid. Counsel for Protean, Mr Peter McCurdy, asked Mr Morgan why Seigal had chosen to withdraw the tender in 1961 before the council announced the winning bidder when he had been convinced that the meatworks would be a money-making enterprise. Mr Morgan told the inquiry that Mr Seigal and his accountant and brother-in-law, Mr Wolowski, decided to pull out of the abattoir deal because thev thought the 12.000 "sling" to Councillor Loughnan and "the boys" was too much.

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