The Age from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Page 22

THE AGE, Thursday 12 November 1987 I fulfill You want a new cellular mobile phone? a word ol advice. 111 dSAr- Sr II YOUCANBUY, LEASE OR RENT ANDWECAN OFFER DISCOUNTS FOR QUANTITIES. We can rent you a phone Science takes a lesson as derelict house burns By TOBY DARVAIX As smoke billowed from the smashed windows and flames crept towards the front bedroom of the weather board house, several firemen looked on, laughing and occasionally taking phOtOS. A casual onlooker might have wondered why the four fire units made no attempt to put out the fire or why neighbors appeared unconcerned by -the raging lire next door. Despite appearances, the fire was a controlled experiment by the CSIRO, Melbourne University, and the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, The derelict cottage in Croydon was purposely ignited yesterday to test the destruction of a house in a simulated bushfire.

Film made of the burning house will be used in fire prevention promotions and analysis of domestic fires. A large wind machine was used to give the effect of gusting winds typical of bushfire conditions. To make the experiment as realistic as possible, the abandoned house, Then Aiatyouwantisa jjiiuiic uiai lias wiiaL 11 An old house in Bayswater Road, Croydon, caves in while CSIRO scientists take notes, i and the house was refurbished. Dr Caird Ramsay, the project's technical organiser, said the experiment was a success and confirmed many hypothesis. The "exploding house" theory circulated after the Ash Wednesday bushfires was shown to be a fallacy, he said.

which was due for demolition, was filled with furniture, carpets, books, and electrical appliances. The experimenters encountered a minor setback when the original set of furniture was stolen from the house only days before. However, a quick visit to the Opportunity Shop, call halfiday strike medical need, jpg EdelsMi Dr Geoffrey Edelsten told the Medical Disciplinary Tribunal In Sydney yesterday that the 24-houfc medical centres he had pioneered were fulfilling an obvious public need. He said that since ,1984 lie had established 13 such centres employing about 200 doctors full and part-time, who saw up to 20,000 patients a week. Dr Edelsten, who gave his address as a surgery in Heathcote Road, Hammondville, is charged with four counts of over-servicing patients and one of not being of good character.

Two other charges allege that he permitted and enabled a nursing sister to carry out operative surgery, namely laser r-v Dr Edelsten said that in Los Angeles in late 1977 or early 1978 he had learned and practised the use of lasers in removing tattoos and other skin blemishes. He thought the treatment was excellent for many such patients, but had ceased using the procedure after a Four Corners program was made about it Dr Edelsten said after the interview that less than 50 per cent came back for the laser treatment He taught several doctors and a theatre sister, Barbara el-Gamal, how to carry out the laser procedure, which he said was He would start the treatment and sometimes allow Sister el-Gamal to take over, but he was never more than three metres away in an adjoining room. The hearing resumes tomorrow afternoon. In the Federal Court later, at a public examination of Dr Edelsten, it was revealed that creditors at a meeting yesterday morning had decided to sell his interests in three suburban medical practices two at Liverpool and the other, which has ceased operating, at Warwick Farm. Dr Edelsten was being examined by Stephen Finch, for the trustee of the doctor's bankrupt estate.

He was made bankrupt on his own petition on 21 September. In a statement of affairs before the court yesterday, Dr Edelsten listed a debt of $1.9 million allegedly owing in tax. A Federal Court judge, Mr Justice Burchett will hear an application today by the Taxation Office and another creditor to have the bankruptcy annulled. The Taxation Office is then expected to file a petition itself to have the doctor made bankrupt This would give it certain legal rights not available with the bankruptcy made on Dr Edelsten's petition. Yesterday's examination was adjourned to a date to be fixed.

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Today's strike will affect students in high and technical schools across half the state. teachers fair. as straightforward and Other essay questions considered immigration to Australia in the 19th Century, the hunger to acquire land, "Marvellous Melbourne" of the 1880s, and the divisions and new identities forged by the Great Wars. Anyone who studied Australian history before 1981 would note; on the paper the inclusion of questions on Aboriginal society, before and after European settlement. Ms Vernita Zigouras, Australian history teacher at Brunswick East High School, said the exam tested comprehension, imagination and Exam puts students in Mr Collins: overruled by education minister the past an ability to recognise and express the values of a different period.

Tuesday's home economics exam contained a typographical error on one of the graphs in question three. The question asked students to account for different height and weight increases over the first five years of two children growing up in the same family. A spokesman for the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Board said 220 of 320 exam centres had been contacted before the exam was over. She said that markers would take into account any errors made by students as a result of the i By JAMES BUTTON, education reporter In 1889, you are a pastoralist, seeking to justify your attitude to the Aborigines. In 1850, you are a writer visiting the Victorian gold-fields.

In 1939, you look back and think: "The Depression was a hard teacher. Its lessons were learnt for The C9M students attempting yesterday's Year 12 Victorian Certificate of Education Australian history exam- were asked, to put themselves in the shoes of these and other characters from the past. The exam 5f per cent of the final mark was described by 'i.