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Thursday, May 13, 1976 FORECASTS (for today): Metropolitan: Cool, showers. NSW: Showers coast to adjacent ranges. Dry west. Cool day. Fogs inland.

Max temperature: City 18, Liverpool 18. (Details, Page 20) SUN: Today rises 6.38; scls 5.04. MOON: Rises 4.37 p.m.; sets 5.33 a.m. TIDES (Fort Dcnison): High 7.37 a.m. (1.5m), 7.56 p.m.

(1.9m). I.ow 1.31 a.m. (0.1m), 1.30 p.m. No 42,183 Telephone 20944 First published 1831 26 PAGES 12c LATE EDITION Wit Signal plot fpafe COLUMN Mirella safe and well Wran will sack the City Council By our Civic Reporter The new State Labor Government will dismiss the City Council of Sydney. I was a formal meeting fur Wran when lie vailed on Sir Rodcn Cutler at Government House yesterday to receive the Governor's commission.

But there's little doubt a subject for informal discussion soon will he Sir Rodcn's future in the job. His current vice-regal term (he was appointed by the Askin Government III years ago) expires in eight months. If Sir Roden elects not to retire, his future will probably rest with the Labor ministry. The Little Explorer ALTHOUGH weighing only 71b 15oz (3.6kg), Rodney John Haydcn is the pride of Tumut. Locals say his recent birth at the Shcahan House Maternity Hospital has set a record for the district, and possibly Australia.

The birth of Master Rodney to Cheryl and Kerry Hayden means that members of six generations of the family are now living in Tumut. His great-great-great-grandmother, Mrs Lillian Niddrie, is 99. Alone with three men on a trek across the Gulf country. From the diary of Emily Caroline Creaghe. In Look! PLUS Cooking real child's play for the holidays IT'S not only patients who $lm raid: hashish in 6,000 cans of 'pickles' Federal narcotics agents seized hashish estimated to be worth SI million, when they raided a house in Canterbury yesterday afternoon.

The hashish was contained in 6.000 cans labelled as imported pickles. Three men and a woman who had just loaded the cans into the garage of their house in Cooks Avenue, were startled when about 1 5 narcotics agents rushed them at 4.30 pm. The raid was the culmination of an investigation that began earlier this month. Customs agents checking apparently legitimate foodstuffs on a Russian ship in Darling Harbour, discovered the hashish when they opened several of the cans. The cans had been imported from Lebanon, and from the freight documents the Customs and Narcotics agents identified the house in Canterbury as the destination for the hashish.

Late on Tuesday, narcotics agents began a 24-hour surveillance of the ship. About 10 am yesterday, the cans, weighing five tonnes, and packed into 250 cartons, were collected at Darling Harbour and driven away in a truck. Narcotics agents tailed the truck through the City to make sure it went to the Canterbury house. Then began another surveillance, this time at the house. Then came the raid.

Without struggle The four people gave up without a struggle and were taken to Customs House, where they were questioned last night. All were Lebanese born and at least two were naturalised Austra- lians. A senior officer of the Federal Narcotics Bureau said all four would be charged with a serious offence relating to the drugs. The cans were taken to Customs House where narcotics agents began the exhausting task of opening the cans to compile an inventory of the haul. Late last night the agents had recovered 90.9 kg of the hashish, but estimated that when they finished they would recover about 226 kg.

The haul is described as one of the biggest ever in Australia. Sold in bulk, the hashish could bring about S500.000 on the illicit market, but in small quantities, it could bring $1 million. The house in Canterbury is believed to have been a staging point for distribution to underworld outlets. Guests abused by protesters PERTH, Wednesday. About 100 demonstrators hurled abuse at guests arriving at Government House tonight to attend a State reception for the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr.

The placard-waving demonstrators lined each side of the driveway as guests arrived by car or on foot. Sir John and Lady Kerr leave Perth tomorrow morning for Newman on the first leg of a six-day visit to north-west centres in Western Australia. poke tun at doctors doctors do it themselves. In the New Doctor, journal of the Doctors' Reform Society, we found a tongue-in-cheek Code of Ethical Behaviour for Patients. Sir Eric in adversity IT included such wit as: appraisal.

Page 6. XmEl'A. Some funny lines' Malcolm Mackerras looks critically at NSW electoral boundaries. Page 7. "Try to suffer from the disease for which ou are being treated.

Remember your doctor has a professional reputation to uphold." Or: "Do not suffer from ailments that you cannot afford. It is sheer arrogance to contract illnesses that are beyond your means." And: "Never die while in your doctor's presence or under his direct care. This will only cause him needless inconvenience and embarrassment." Leaves you in stitches, doesn't it? Mirella. Mr and Mrs Franzke reunited with twj-weck-old Colour television Angliss Hospital in Ferntree Gully. Woman remanded before night court They were reunited with Mirella iii a small After one year, a report on the state of the market and advice for prospective buyers.

ante-room in a maternity ward after doctors had examined Mirella and found she was CALL it inevitable: A MELBOURNE. Wednesday. A 36-year-old woman appeared before a special court in Lilydalc tonight charged with the abduction of two-weck-old Mirella Franzke. Elsie Lillian Rob-crson. of Tccomu, was charged with abduction a aggravated burglary.

She was remanded in custody to appear in the Melbourne Magis- restaurant named A WS is about to open in Newcastle. healthy and unharmed. Mrs Franzke said: "It's absolutely marvellous. I've been really 31. and his wife Janinc, 26, were at Russell Street headquarters with Homicide Squad detectives when they heard their baby daughter had been found alive and well.

Police took them immediately to Fcrntrce Gully police station and then to the William Irate's Court tomorrow. The search for the baby ended today after police received an anonymous phone call at Russell Street headquarters. Police found Mirella in a house in Tecoma, 39 km cast of Melbourne. Mr David Franzke, wretched all the time imagining all the hor- The Premier-elect, Mr Wran, said yesterday that commissioners or administrators appointed by the Government would take over. The City boundaries would be extended into the surrounding municipalities.

Mr Wran said that the council's dismissal was a matter of low priority but it would be done before the Government's three-year term expired. The Lord Mayor, Alderman Leo Port, attacked Mr Wran's announcement yesterday. "I am sure the public will not like it and it will rebound. It is in the same category as some of the hasty decisions of the Whitlam Government," he said. BASED ON EFFICIENCY The Labor plan is to amalgamate the 40 metropolitan councils into about 10 larger, more economically viable units.

The Greater Sydney area would probably include the South Sydney municipality area which formerly was part of the City. Parts of Woollahra, Randwick, Botany and Waverley councils arc also being considered for inclusion in the new City boundaries. The Liberal-Country Party coalition reduced the city boundaries and appointed three City Commissioners with controversial legislation introduced in Parliament in 1967. The commissioners were later replaced by an elected council in September 1969. Council amalgamations were proposed in the report of the Barnett committee which was appointed in 1971 to examine local government administration and improvements to council boundaries.

The proposals were dropped by the then Minister for Local Government, Sir Charles Cutler, in 1974, because of the resistance by councils and Government backbenchers. But the report, compiled under the chairmanship of Mr C. J. Barnett, then of the Cities Commission, excluded the City Council area in its assessments. Labor docs not support the report's recommendations because of the omission of the City and is likely to base amalgamations on its own criteria.

These were defined loosely in the election policy and are expected to be developed during the next few months. The City Council has a Civic Reform Association majority of 17 aldermen to Labor's 3. Alderman Port, who was one of the first people to congratulate Mr Wran on his victory, said yesterday that he was pleased Mr Wran had given the dismissal plans a low priority. He said he would try to put the council's view to the Premier as soon as possible. The former Labor aldermen bad not liked being replaced with commissioners in 1967, he said, but now Labor appeared to be pursuing the same course.

ELECTION POLICY Altering boundaries legitimately and for good reasons was quite proper and he would like to join in any talks aimed at doing this. "But the out-of-hand, unjustified dismissal of the duly elected aldermen is something else," the Lord Mayor said. A spokesman for Mr Wran said later however that the amalgamations planned for all Sydney metropolitan councils would be based on efficiency and better utilisation of council resources and there were no political motives in nominating the City first. During the election campaign Mr Wran said the criteria for amalgamations included community interest, better value for the rate dollar and the preservation of existing council jobs. Mr Wran will have two ways of removing and replacing the council when the time comes.

He can, through the Local Government Minister, dismiss the council and install an administrator or follow the 1967 precedent. Two decades ago under the premiership of the late Mr J. Cahill, Labor tried to pass legislation for widening the City boundaries into areas such as Woollahra and North Sydney. This was stopped in the Legislative Council. But Mr Wran's election mandate is considered sufficient to get such legislation through the Upper House now.

The Civic Reform aldermen have been reconciled to dismissal after a Labor victory, while the opposition aldermen appear to have no prospect of subsequent advantage. Mr Wran's confirmation makes the inevitable official and its effect is not yet evident. The president of the Local Government Association of NSW, Alderman H. G. Percival, said yesterday that the precedent for Mr Wran's proposal already had been set.

"And I do not give either political party any marks for regarding the City Council as some sott of political prize," he said. The association still would like to join Mr Wran and his Local Government Minister in any talks to decide the new council boundaries, and he too was pleased that the Premier still had given a low priority to the eventual dismissals. Vole on Cabinet today; Move for Federal funds, Page 2, riblc things that I've IT is rather ironic that heard have happened to little children. "I kent tcllins myself she would be all right but I wasnt really at Blow to Ford's election hopes all confident." Mr Franzke said all he wanted to do now was forget all -bout the having waited so long to become Premier, Sir Eric Willis is out of office before having made his presence felt in the corridors of power. His photo hasn't yet been hung alongside those of his predecessors in the "Rogue's Gallery" of Parliament House.

The portraits usually go up within six months of a Premier's swearing-in. abduction. Giant Fijian on Rugby tour Steve Finnanc, the Sydney Rugby Union prop forward, conies up against a formidable Fijian opponent in the match at the Sports Ground on Saturday. Josateki Sovau is a 6ft 2in cane farmer from Nandi who weighs 18st 81b. He is the biggest man in the touring party.

The Fijians, who arrived in Australia yesterday, will begin serious training today. Report, Page 15 LATE NEWS Mirella Franzke was Ncbraskans were not impressed with the President's new strategy which he had unveiled in the State to bolster his flagging campaign. The win will give Mr Reagan a major boost for his next major encounter with Mr Ford in Michigan, the President's home State. Ian Hicks reports, Page 5. WASHINGTON.

Wednesday. President Ford's hopes of gaining the Republican Party's nomination have been dealt a severe blow with his sixth primary defeat by Mr Ronald Reagan. Mr Ford went down narrowly in Nebraska, which he hoped to win to prove that Mr Reagan's four wins in four days last week was a fluke. taken from the Franzke's home in Mcadowgatc Drive, Lily dale, about 10.30 am on Monday. On other pages Mum Shirl: 'a downtown nigger' and a saint Section 2 Rugby League: Western Suburbs forward (o enter hospital and will not play again this season.

Page IS Turf: Trainer has no ambitious plans for winner of marathon race at Canterbury. Page 15 Finuncc: AN I seeks independent study of Comeng bid for William Adams. Page 18 People in distress 3 Rare blood on way to NZ TOKYO, Wcducsdav. A total of 400 cu cm (14 fl (i 1 of a very rare type of Mood was on its wav to Sydney tonight en route Auckland, New ciLiid. in a newly born b.ihy ilicre.

Hi- National Institute ot said today the would have been nine on Mother's Day. "Not my real grandson, but, like my hundreds of children, mine by love and affection." Some 243 people have flown from all States for the funeral, including her tribal auntie Kittic Dick, 70. from the Northern Territory. Shirley Smith, brought up on the Aboriginal reserve at West Cowra as one of 1 1 children, lived in a tin hut with no floor. "I can't' read or write," she says slowly, "because I was born an epileptic.

They wouldn't let me go to school because they thought I had a disease like TB. Continued on Page 10 Kh-iiii'j ivpc of Mood She owns nothing except the clothes on her back. Her income is her SI 32. 18 wage as field officer for the medical service. Most of that goes in rent, in helping unmarried mothers, in paying for food for alcoholics at St.

Vincent's Church, Redfern (report page 10). Some call her a saint. Most call her Mum Shirl. Even the three-year-old kids. She's crying as we talk.

She's just buried her grandson he State Cabinet: Labor group to make selection today. Page 2 Parking Hue: Tasmanian Attorney-General enters dispute involving man who says parkins: line not his. Page 3 Lebanon: Left-wing makes demands to end civil war. Page 4 Britain: Jo Crimond agrees to take over Liberal Party leadership. Page 5 The vanquished: The new Leader of the Opposition Gavin Soutcr.

Editorials. Molnar. Letters. Page 6 Poll boundaries: Shaping up for a big Constitutional battle Malcolm Mackerras. A long way from the Kimberleys Helen talks to Elizabeth Durack.

Art. Page 7 Capsize: Yachtsman says faulty steering caused his craft to capsize; seeks damages. Page 8 Recipes by Rosemary Hemphill for children to make; The Little Explorer: Emily Creaghe's 18S3 diary; Women of the North Vest: the new pioneers. Pages 11 to 14 (vu-n bv Mr Akira Iv. y.

of Kvoto, only m0 people koown a rare blood "idinc to a I ondon-bastd 1 Hood hpe By GRAHAM WILLIAMS Shirley Smith waved one of the 112 Mother's Day cards she got this year. "Not bad for a downtown nigger," she said. Not bad, indeed. They come from lifers, from toddlers, from unmarried mothers, from boys and men some of the vast family she has accumulated over the years. Mum Shirl, as she is known from Rcdfcrn to Arnhcm Land and Broome, is quite a person.

"I'm not an uptown nigger, nor a bourgeoisc nigger, just a downtown nigger," she says. At 55 she can't read or write, but she has moved mountains. She has rescued 311 unmarried mothers and girls from welfare homes by getting courts to turn them over to her care. Courts also release some men to her custody when she goes to plead their case; Which' is often. She visits about 400 prisoners in jails all over NSW and has a special Government pass to admit her at any time.

The woman who helped launch the Aboriginal Medical Service in Redfern five vcars ago is now also helping with a new project a farm clinic for Aboriginal alcoholics at St Albans. Comics 17 Crossword 17 Finance 18-20 Law Notices 20 Look! 11-14 Lotteries (2736, 7011) 22 Mail 17 Radio 17 Shipping 20 Show scene 11 Sport 15-17 Television 20 Weather 20 Envoy tours quake area (flan? "wHET are checking on the fate of relatives of Italians who migrated to Australia from the Udinc region. The Australian Embassy in Rome has received hundreds of requests for information from migrants in Australia. PAGE 3: Heartbreak mission to native land; appeal ncars $60,000. PAGE 5: More tremors.

PAGE 17: Latest list of dead. From Our Correspondent ROME, Wednesday. The Australian Ambassador to Italy, Mr John Ryan, has begun a tour of the area around Udinc which was devastated by an earthquake last week. His report on the area's needs will guide allocation of the $250,000 which the Australian Government has given. Consular officials with Mr Ryan nniad and publrshad by John Fairfax Sana Umit-ad ot Jonaa Straat, Brotdwt.

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