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THE AGE Friday, January 14, 1977 250 Spencer Melbourne 60 0421 (Classified 60 0611) 22 Pages 123rd Year 12c" CES minute asked for 'rock -bottom' figures clkar ew joble ge 0 BODIES TWO MIHaiBBBBiBaHaiBBBBBBBHeBeWMaaMaHMMMWeaMBIlBlaBBBBBBBBBBBBBlaiBBBBBBBMHVI DAYS IN DEATH HOME Ethnic radio advice State and Federal advisory committees on ethnic radio will be announced next week. 2. Rethink on PS travel The Public Service Board will reconsider its ban on first-class overseas travel by most public servants. 3 Atrocities report An international inquiry is urged into reports from refugees that Indonesia is committing atrocities in Timor. 3.

CPI revised The December quarter Consumer Price Index will be delayed until mid February because it is being revised and broadened 4. Look for work: Dickie School leavers should have to spend three to six months looking for work before going on the dole, the acting Premier, Mr. Dickie, says. 5. Israel angry Israel's fury over the release by France of Palestinian guerilla leader Abu Daoud has intensified afier a French decision to sell 200 Mirage fighter-bombers to Egypt.

6. Ford says farewell President Ford says he is handing over a "more perfect" naiion lo incoming President Jimmy Carter. 7. Prisoner 'afraid of guards' A man charged with the murder of a Pent-ridge prisoner tells a Supreme Court judge that prison officers in division caused him to fear for his life. 10.

Four police cleared Four police are cleared of charges arising out of a raid on an Ocean Grove pizza parlor. 10. CAN'fFWPAJOB. Susan Bartlctt Suzanne Armstrong with son Gregory. Odd ring to figures row SUSAN FRONT DOOR HALLWAY BATHROOM OAK I Lt I I From MICHELLE GRATTAN YARD kennel GREGORY ARMSTRONG SUZANNE ARMSTRONG KITCHEN CO LU LU NOTE ON TABLE A.

If. BED BED 0T2B ODD SPOT dm The British Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that a slogan "You don't say 'Hello sailor' to a Captain Morgan drinker" is not offensive to homosexuals. IBBBBBBRI 1 i 1 I 1 LANE WAY 0 r-'o Whitlam makes document public From MICHELLE GRATTAN CANBERRA. The Opposition Leader, Mr. Whitlam, yesterday launched fresh charges that the Government was presenting fraudulent unemployment figures.

He released a copy of a minute sent by a senior officer of the employment department to Commonwealth Employment Service office managers in NSW to support his allegations. The minute, dated November 22, asked managers to "take a personal interest" in achieving "rock bottom" registers of job applicants before the school leavers hit the market. Last night the Employment Minister, Mr. Street, said Mr. Whitlam had put an "entirely incorrect" construction on the minute.

He said Mr. Whitlam was prepared to "read something sinister" into what was "simply a communication relating to normal and proper management" of the employment service. Mr. Whitlam said the minute showed the "extraordinary efforts" being made to keep down the numbers by any means. It was plain the CES was "under clear instructions from the Fraser Government to present (he unemployment figures in as favorable light as Extra strain The minute, from the Assistant Dir-! ector of Employment Services in NSW, Mr.

F. H. Leys, pointed out the problems the CES had coping with the present high level of applicants and, in particular, in keeping accurate registers. The seasonal peak of applicants, plus the Christmas closedown of industry, put additional strain on the CES's ability to maintain accurate registers, it said. Past experience had shown that those applicants who remained unemployed at this time of the year would, unless special efforts were made, remain unemployed until industry again resumed in late Janaury.

"Similarly, we all know that whenever we take time out to make a close scrutiny of our applicant registers we find some portion of the applicants can for one reason or another be referred or lapsed," the minute said. "What I would therefore like you to do before the onset of the Christmas rush is to take a personal interest in how best you may achieve what 1 might loosely term 'rock bottom' level in the applicant registers." Mr. Leys said he would leave the method of achieving this to the local managers. Mr. Whitlam said the minute showed CES managers were told to intervene personally in supervising the registers to ensure all possible applicants were "referred" or "lapsed" in other words, removed from the lists of people seeking work.

He called for an immediate investigation into the matter. The latest row over the employment figures has an old ring about it. After Labor came to power in 1972 it asked a panel of academics to inquire into whether the employment figures were That inquiry drew attention to the inadequacy of CES figures as a meas-s ure of unemployment. The inquiry also recommended a survey of those registered with the CES. This showed that large numbers of i those on the "unemployed" list were either employed or could not be located, it, Although sometimes people had given wrong information, in very many cases the CES had jusi not got around to crossing people off its register.

Employment Department sources said yesterday the memo would be part of a regular attempt to improve efficiency rather than the product of a Government directive. After all, the CES ha had its effic-' iency criticised by the Government and I is currently the subject of an inquiry. However, whatever the motive of the memo, its publication is highly em-, barrassing for the Government which has been under sustained attack this 1 week over the unemployment figures. Pinkncy 2 Booting 13 ND column 2 Business Age 12, 13 World news 6, 7 Weather, Letters 8 shipping. Editorials 9 law list 13 TV, comics.

Toft's I No. 23 1 13 Quotes 14 crossword 10 Gardening II Age pattern 11 Accent II New Agz Homes 15 Amusements 16 Sport 19-22 This diagram shows where the two women were found in the Easey Street, Collingwood, house. Miss Bartlett's body was found in a pool of blood in the hallway just inside the front door. It is believed she was stabbed in the back while trying to help Miss Armstrong escape. More bloodstains were found in the front bedroom where Miss Arm strong's body lay at the foot of the double bed.

Miss Armstrong's 16-month-old son, Gregory, was found crying and dehydrated in his cot in the middle room. The remaining rooms a small bedroom with a single kitchen and a bathroom were crowded with the two woman belongings. Classified Index 11 Personal notices 17 The boyfriend of one of two young women stabbed to death in a Collingwood house on Tuesday visited the house on Wednesday night and left without discovering the killings. The bodies of Suzanne Armstrong, 27, an unmarried mother, and Susan Bartlett, 28, a schoolteacher, lay in pools of blood only six metres from where the man stood. The boyfriend, Mr.

Barry Woodard, went to the house with his brother and left a note in the kitchen after assuming the women were out. Homicide detectives believe the women were murdered early on Tuesday. This means that Miss Armstrong's 16-month-old son, Gregory, was unattended in his cot in the middle bedroom for at least 48 hours. CITY: Cool. Showery.

Windy. Expected highest temperature 20 (yesterday 33 1 Details 1 3 1f the genius of By GERRY CARMAN and MICHAEL GORDON CHINA YovCre known by the company you keep. Ntxt Monday: "The Age" will publish a 12-page color supplement, The Genius Of China, as an introduction to the' $200 million Chinese Exhibition at the National Gallery. The Genius Of China provides invaluable material for Australians to understand the artistic heritage of ancient China. To get the most out of the awe-inspiring Chinese Exhibition, you will need your copy of The Genius Of China, free with next Monday's Queen to attend MCG Test By MIKE SHEAHAN The Queen will attend the final day of the Centenary Test between Australia and England at the MCG in March.

Her two-day Victorian programme includes one hour at the Test from 3.15 p.m. on Thursday, March 17. She is expected to meet players of both teams during the tea adjournment. The Queen will be accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh. Even if the Test finishes early, the Queen will still see the two teams in action.

Cricket authorities have promised organisers of the Royal tour that a limited-over game will be played if the Test ends early. It will be the first of two meetings willv the Queen within a few months for players of both teams. The Queen traditionally is introduced to England and Australian players during Tests at Lord's. The Australians will tour England next winter. The Sydney Australia-Pakistan Test starts today.

Read Peter McFarline and Mushtaq Mohammad on page 22, Jack Fingleton is on page 20. cfeesrjy among AwfwEaj Last night he was in Allambie reception centre, Burwood, after receiving treatment for dehydraiion at the Royal Children's Hospital. The women were last seen alive by Susan Bartlett's brother, Martin, who left the house at 9.30 pm on Monday-Police believe the position in which Miss Armstrong's body was found on the floor of the front bedroom suggested the possibility of sexual assault. Miss Armstrong's shift dress was pulled up over her shoulders and she had multiple stab wounds to the chest and under the chin. Miss Bartlett lay in the hallway just otuside Ihe bedroom.

She also had multiple stab wounds to the back, front and left side of her body. The man in charge of Ihe investigation, Dcleclive Senior Sergeant Alf Old-lield. said he believed Miss Bartlett was going to the aid of her friend when she was attacked. Blood stains indicated that she had slumped down against the wall in the passage. A blood soaked aqua colored towel was found in a children's playground 300 metres away.

No weapon had been recovered late last night. Mr. Woodard, 31, a shearer, of Thornbury, was Miss Armstrong's boyfriend. He said he went to the house in Easey Street with his brother, Henry, 24. a farm hand, at about 8.30 pm Wednesday.

"I last saw Susan ai midnight on Sunday and had not been able to contact her despite repealed attempts on the telephone," Mr. Woodard said. "I rang her again from my sister's place at 7 pm on Wednesday bin there was no reply. 1 decided to go to the house with Henry at about 8.30 pm," he said. "We noticed a note pinned to the front door but got no response to knocking and calling out.

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So hard to take your Mr. Street said the minute outlined action to be taken to review employment registers to ensure that the people on them were still available for employment. The procedure was one that had been followed in the CES under difficult Governments for a number of years, he said. Text of minute 4 was Barry Woodard, 31, of Thornbury Suzanne Armstrong's boyfriend. He left a note on the kitchen table on Wednesday night not knowing the murdered pair lay only yards away.

"The kitchen light on." Continued 3. eyesorriNBiNviaeo production fedlrties. Record $610m from overseas AGEgraph winding of "the leads and lags" in payments before devaluation. This means most of the speculative gains so far from devaluation have been made by exporters and others with foreign credits who put off bringing in funds from abroad until after the devaluation. Importers, and others with debts in foreign currencies, paid the debts in advance.

taking by speculators who anticipated the devaluation and exported funds before the end of November. The Treasury said the very large inflow compared with outflows averaging over $200 million in the previous three months. While the detailed composition was not available the greater part of the inflow may have been due to an un CANBERRA. A record $610 million flooded into Australia in December according to figures released yesterday by the Bureau of Statistics. The record capital inflow follows the devaluation of the dollar at the end of November.

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