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THE AGE, Saturday 23 October 1982 5 Most appendix removals are justified: survey Jobless rise puts new estimates in doubt: ALP From STEPHEN MILLS CANBERRA. The number of people on unemployment benefits has jumped again, and he Opposition said yesterday the Government's revised spending estimates could still be too low as a result. Pictun: MICHAEL MARTIN Murray island is part of Victoria, High Court rules CANBERRA. The High Court yesterday settled a dispute over State boundaries that was first raised 109 years ago. As a result Beveridge Island, in the Murray River downstream from Swan Hill, has been declared a part of Victoria.

A fanner, William Arthur Hazlett, 74, has lost his appeal with costs, and will presumably have to pay Victoria a number of State charges he has resisted because he believed the island had moved out of that State into New South Wales. Mr Hazlett, who has farmed the island since 1944, said yesterday that he could not understand the judges' reasoning in the case. But he agreed they had left him no avenues for further legal action. 1 reckon it will be open warfare," he said. Til have to stand up and fight just like Ned Kelly.

I'm disgusted, that's all I can say. The rest would be unprintable." While Mr Hazlett received legal aid for the High Court case, he spent $25,000 on an earlier challenge in the Victorian Supreme Court. He now owes Victoria $10,000 in back rent for the island, which he holds on a lease basis. In deciding the issue, the High ffmrt has laid down firm general tralia were generally based on comparisons with other countries: He said these comparisons provided no information about the indications for, and the findings' at, the operations. The college made the study because of these claims, assisted by the peer-review resource centre, a research unit developed by the Australian Medical Association and the Australian Council on Hospital Standards.

The Federal president of the AMA, Dr Lindsay Thompson, said of the results: "I hope this survey, and others in the pipeline, will put a stop to unjustified allegations of unnecessary surgery and reassure the public that their doctors are acting responsibly." Mr Clarebrough, a senior chest surgeon at St Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne, said a rate of per cent for unjustified operations was low by world standards. He said the results of a similar survey on hysterectomies would be ready by the end of the year and a survey of tonsillectomies was in the planning stage. A wingless, wheelless veteran, this Douglas DC2 does not look like the plane that revolutionised civil aviation in Australia. Yet a group of enthusiasts, including policeman Mr Paul Backas, waving from the cockpit, expect to have the plane ready to fly to England and back in 1984 and star in a film on the 1934 MacRobertson Centenary Air Race. After coming an impressive second in this race, the DC2 was soon in commercial use in Australia.

The plane arrived at Essendon airport yesterday for restoration. RACV criticises State transport plan By PHILIP MclNTOSH A study by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons has found that 84 per cent of appendectomies were justified and 2 per cent were unjustified The survey covered about 2000 patients. who had their appendix removed in Victoria and New South Wales in 1980. Because private hospital records were not adequate, the survey could not assess 14 per cent of the cases. In public hospitals, where information was more complete, the percentage of non-inflamed appendices removed was 23 per cent, the college said in a joint statement yesterday with the Australian Medical Association.

"However, in nearly all of those cases the symptoms and signs were such that there was sufficient indication of the likelihood of appendicitis to justify an operation to avoid the danger of rupture with peritonitis and even death," it said. "This percentage figure was identical whether the patient had private insurance or not That is, a fee for the service did not appear to encourage a higher operation rate." The results of the survey will be presented at a seminar at the college headquarters today. The president of the college, Mr John Clarebrough, said yesterday that continued claims about a high rate of unnecessary surgery in Aus THE AGE next week Figures released yesterday by the Opposition spokesman on social security, Senator Grimes, show that 446,300 people were taking the dole in September an increase of 24,000 on the August figures, and up 140,300 on the previous September. EVERYONE who spends lime in lift knows Hi ere ore important behavioral rules to observe, but what do they mean? On MONDAY, psychologists lift the ltd on elevator behavior. plete answer, as Mr Crabb had implied.

The report had stated that in 1978 in Melbourne 65 per cent of personal trips were by car while public transport was used for only 13 per cent of trips. Ninety-five per cent of all transport modeshad been car-based, he said. More than half of the ffistance covered in Melbourne city travel had been by car. The Government plans to create four transport authorities to absorb eight existing authorities and, eventually, Victorian port authorities. with Mr Crabb about part of the Government's planned transport reorganisation.

The olan to absorb Victorian ports authorities into the proposed State Transport Authority was compared by the chamber to Big Brother taking over. Mr Drinkwater was commenting on the six-volume report, 'Future Context for Transport', released this week, which set out alternative futures for Victoria to 1991 to guide the Labor Government's planned reorganisation. Mr Drinkwater said that public transport was not the com The Transport Minister, Mr Crahfo, was ignoring people's preference for oars by favoring public transport over spending on roads, the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria said yesterday. The motor vehicle would provide for most personal travel and freight movement in Victoria in the long term and a Ministry of Transport study supported this, said the RACV chief general manager, Mr Ern Drinkwater. The Melbourne Chamber of Commerce yesterday sought talks Budget benefits Income tax cuts are about to start.

The Age' on Monday will carry tables to show how much extra you will have in your pocket. Look for The Age' Budget Benefits Guide, a four-page lift-out on Monday. SIXTEEN Melbourne women, all prominent in academic, professional and artistic fields, hove recused events which have shaped their Bves in a new book. On TUESDAY, Jane SuHivun looks at their stories. guidelines about how to define the boundary between the two States.

In a joint judgment, a full court of six judges held that the State boundary was virtually fixed for all tune by Imperial statutes of 1850 and 1855. The boundary is the southern bank of the River Murray, and only slow and imperceptible changes in the course or tne river wiu alter we pnyncai Bin. Sudden changes, whether caused naturally or artificially, do not alter the boundary; the State border will remain at the southern bank of the old river even if no The numbers have been rising steadily since April in sharp contrast to previous years when the number of dole recipients dropped during the year as school leavers found jobs. Senator Grimes said that if the numbers continued to rise as they had since April, at about 18,000 a month, they would reach 500,000 by December. "In January the flood of school leavers into a shrinking labor market will increase beneficiary numbers by at least another 50,000 as they did last year in far less adverse circumstances," Senator Grimes said in a joint statement with the Opposition's employment and industrial relations spokesman, Mr Hawke.

"On this basis the number of beneficiaries over 1982-83 is likely to be about 510,000 and could be higher," they said. The Treasurer, Mr Howard, told Parliament last week that the Treasury had revised its Budget estimate of the average number of people on the dole this vear from 395.000 to 460.000. This added $300 million to the $1567 million Budget estimate for unemployment benefits. But Senator Grimes and Mr Hawke said the new estimate could be as much as $250 million too low. "This total blowout since the Budget indicates the dishonesty of the Budget estimates and the increasing seriousness of the depressed employment situation," they said.

water is flowing in it after a sudden change. The court noted that the ques tion of where the boundary was around Beveridge Island had first been raised between the colonial Jogger finds cash box from robbery Police hunting the VicRail pay train bandits yesterday recovered the steel box which had I contained the $288,000 payroll. The box. which had been stuffed with paper and set alight to destroy fingerprints, was found I by a jogger beneath a Templestowe bridge. The box had been taken from a train at 1 Ascot Vale station by four armed bandits on Thursday morning.

Police sav the gang mav have robbed VicRail of a $248,000" payroll last November. They believe that the gang couid aiso have committed a number of payroll robberies netting more than SI million. In Thursday's robbery the guard and the driver of the train were bailed up by armed men while two other gang members grabbed the cash box from two part-time guards in a compartment of the train's middle carriage. Two men escaped with 12 diamond rings valued at $50,000 yesterday. One man grabbed a tray of rings he examining from an assistant at the Australian Gold Buying Company in Bourke Street.

administrations in 1873. The colonies took surveys and found that more water went through the northern channel around the island than the south TASMANIA Aborigines called sheep namiwaddinana. What they did not know was that this animal they had not seen before would be the seed of their destruction. The story is told on WEDNESDAY, in the second of four extracts from 'The Shearers' by Patsy Adam-Smith. WHAT cost $22 million to make and runs for 12 hours? Answer: the epic television series 'Shogun', comieg soon.

'Shogun' tells the story of an seaman who is shipwrecked in 17th century Japan. In Green Guide on THURSDAY, Michael Shmirfi previews this blockbuster and interviews the novelist from whose story it was ern As the northern channel was irJVESTMErJT SEMINAR Darlington Commodities Limited, Australia's leading multi-investment house, is holding an investment seminar, which will provide important and vital information to the investor on the following topics: The key to profitable investment Planning a retirement portfolio. The best way to invest in shares. Investing in property trusts for tax-free capital growth. Gold and Silver are they still a wise investment? Diamonds and Gem-stones has the opportunity passed? The enormous profit potential of commodity futures trading.

There will be a question and answer time and light refreshments will be served, attendance is free but seats must be booked in advance. Time: 6.30 pm Tuesday, October 26th To Book: Phone Jillian Bumpttead 7371 Limited seating available. Free admission by invitation only. the main stream of the river, the THE TREASURY OF VICTORIA EXPERIENCED LEGAL OFFICERS RECENTNEW LAW GRADUATES The STAMP DUTIES and STATE TAXATION OFFICES have recently strengthened their Legal Sections and now offer the opportunity for Legal Officers to make a significant contribution to the offices' objectives. Duties will include: Researching and advising on complex legal matters associated with the Acts administered by the Stamp Duties and State Taxation Offices.

Preparing argument for hearings. Appearing before hearings. Drafting and settling documents. Conferring with and instructing Counsel. Training junior legal staff.

The appointees must be, or be eligible to be, admitted as Barristers and Solicitors of the Supreme Court of Victoria and have the ability to perform the duties of the positions. Higher level appointees will need to have appropriate experience. A knowledge of Victorian Taxation Laws and legislative processes would be an advantage. Appointment will be as follows: authorities agreed mat it should be the river for the purposes of the boundary, and Beveridge Island would be in Victoria. "The Government of NSW lays nO claim to it," the Colonial Sec retary of NSW wrote to the Chief Secretary of Victoria on 20 June James Cf avail.

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