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8 THE AGE, Wednesday, February 1, 1967 HOME NEWS renti App BIG WELCOME Qantas Pla ceship 'UK still has role in Asia' to off losses pilots shortage in Vic. again ICTORIA faces a 'shortage of apprentices again this year despite a record nuniher of applications. Royal Automobile Club Of Victoria (RACV) REGISTERED OFFICE: 123 QUEEN STREET, MELBOURNE NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF MEMBERS By1 John Macdonald, our Aviation writer OANTAS traffic was still slightly down as a result of the pilots' strike, the company's commercial manager, marketing, (Captain Hugh Birch) said in Mel metal, boiler making, fitting and turning, wood machining and furniture trades. A surplus of applicants appeared likely in carpentry, motor mechanical, Joinery and other building trades and in ladles', hair-dressing. There was also an overall surplus of applicants in Geelong.

So many of them would be placed In the Footscray area, he said. ns set strike Inclusive tour fares across the Pacific would brim; in another 20,000 customers who would' not otherwise have flown. 1 Interest in the young people's concession fares was intense. It opening up an entirely! new market. The company had been particularly active in creatine interest among university students and graduates.

New services In Qantas would inaugurate its first jet service from Perth to Johannesburg when the lengthened runway was opened at Perth in about two month's time, and a new Qantas service would begin this year to Amsterdam. Captain Birch said long ranee plans for a Qantas service from South Africa to Europe had. for the time being, been abandoned. Newly emerging African nations were active in air transport, and landing rights in some countries were difficult to obtain, The Minister for Labor and Industry (Mr. Wilcox) said last night early figures indicated applications were merely keeping pace with the increase in the number of school leavers.

"The expected apprentice figure of 22 per cent, of school leavers does not represent an overall gain," he said. "It stills appears insufficient to meet the needs ol Victoria's continuing Industrial expansion." Mr. Wilcox said the apprentice shortage was likely to hit the printing, sheet $13,700 offer for house Spindrift, the Promenade, Somers, a modern fully furnished brick beach house of six rooms, was passed in at auction last Monday at $13,700. The reserve was $16,000. It was offered with vacant possession bj Arnold and Scott.

Notice Is hereby given that on Extraordinary General Meeting of Club members of the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria (RACV) will be held on the 15th Floor of the RACV building at 123 Queen Street, Melbourne at 8.00 p.m. on Monday, 27th February 1967, The purpose of the meeting is to consider, and if thought fit, pass special resolutions dealing with the Club's Articles of Association. Particulars of the resolutions set out in detail in the February edition of Royal auto, the official Journal of the Club, which is being posted to every member. Proxy forms are being sent to all members entitled to vote or may be obtained at the registered office of the Club or at any Bronch Qffice. By Order of the Council E.

Drink water. Secretary. $9000 penal study grant SYDNEY. An American research institute has granted more' than $9000 to the Sydney University Institute, of Criminology for the study of the effectiveness of sentences passed on criminals. The grant was made by the Walter E.

Meyer research institute of law, New York. The director of the Walter E. Meyer research institute of law (Mr. Maurice Rosenberg) advised the dean of the Law School (Professor K. Shatwell) of the approval of a grant.

Warm comments Mr. Rosenberg said that at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the "warm comments were made on the interests you and your associates have shown in the use of systematic field investigation -to develop fact findings that may signifl-canty aid understanding of the sentencing procedures." Professor Shatwell said yesterday the Institute had been carrying out work assessing the effectiveness of Erison treatment and pro-atlon, The grant would allow increased research. 'fii Mr. WILCOX COMMONWEALTH HOME igfXgf SAVINGS GRANT SCHEME Jan. 31.

Britain's role In South-East Asia was to help nations there to continue to develop towards prosperity, Air Chief Marshal Sir John Grandy said here today. Sir John leaves Singapore today after 20 months as Commander-in-Chief of the British Far East Commanu, He is due in Australia tomorrow for talks with Aus-tralian -service chiefs. Sir John later will return to Britain to take up his new oost as Chief of the Au Staff. He said ioday there was nobody to take Britain's place in South-East Asia. He saw Britain's role in the area as a stabilising influence, although there was considerable opposition in various quarters in Britain towards an "East of policy.

"I have spoken to Prime Ministers, service leaders, officials and ordinary people, and they all say they hope the British are going to stay," Sir John said. He said there had been a great temptation to escalate Indonesia's confrontation In Borneo and "clean up" the opposition. It had been a difficult campaign because it lind been one of restraint, lie said. He had never had the authority to escalate. Asked if Britain's presumed policy of containing communism in Asia was not now redundant with the ending of confrontation and whether this policy might now be better served with a commitment in South Vietnam or Thailand, Sir John replied: "That is for the Government to decide." Sir John be succeeded by General Sir Michael Carver.

AAP-Reuters. 1 JJAILWAY worker Bob Lawrence, of Oak-leigh, returned from a trip to England yesterday to find his workmates had hired a dlesel rail-motor, which they' took right on to Station Pier to welcome him home. Bob, 20, shakes hands with (from left) Trevor Thomas, 19, Wayne Mills, 20, and Peter Martin, 18. The thre.e friends paid $39 to hire the train. Boys and Girls I Win a Brand New 1 (from Market Motors, Dandenong) I for Mother 1,000 other exciting prizes He likes just I LjfX Jsk 1 inn i.i.

ni all music bourne yesterday. No figures were available to show by how much, but traffic was not up yet to the company's pre-strike share of 52 per cent, of all air travellers leaving Australia. "Obviously, a few people have gone over to other airlines." Captain Birch said. The total cost of the strike was now estimated at $7 million. Despite the setback, a prosperous and busv year lay ahead for Qantas.

he added. 1 At a very rough estimate, the airline's special fares for DeoDle under 26. and its new Check up on that letter to S. Africa Victorians who posted surface mail to South Africa early in January should write again pointing out that the earlier letter may have been lost. This suggestion came yesterday from the Director-Oeneral, Posts and Telegraphs (Mr.

T. A. Housley). He was reporting that the Post Office has completed salvage operations on mails affected bv a fire on the vessel Straat Malakka in port In Melbourne on January 12, Of 153 bags of mail destined for. South Africa the fire completely destroyed 19.

Most of these were packets, parcels and newspapers posted in New South wales, but one bag contained letters from Victoria. about SERVICE station duties. Mr. Moshe Atzmon auk activity enormous. Every day there was something on.

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