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3 The Sydney Morning Herald, Sat, Ftbruiry IS, 1975 i notices' law seen in High Court stops bid to drop phone book entry i -a Murphy takes up his new court role monwealth appeared to be in contempt of an order by the Full Court made in September, 1973. The Full High Court 4 An interim injunction -restraining the Commonwealth from deleting the Rhodesia Information 'Centre's entry in Sydney telephone directories was 'granted by the. High Court last night. MR Justice Gibbs, sitting in Public Chambers, referred an action seeking a injunction to the Full High Court. The entry in question Is for the Rhodesia Information Centre, 7 Myrtle Street, Crows Nest.

Nest. It appears in the alphabetical and classified sections of the Sydney telephone directories. Mr M. R. Hardwick, for the Rhodesia Information Centre, told Mr Justice Gibbs, that the centre had been told by postal authorities on December 20 that it was proposed to delete their entries.

He said the matter before the court had assumed Urgency because all entries for the new 1975-76 directories closed on February 28. Mr Hardwick submitted that the proposed action by the Com Australia's laws were "riddlerj with injustices," although this was not particular to Australia, Mr Justice Murphy said at his swearing-in ceremony yesterday. "Even when our laws appear to be just they are often administered unjustly," he said. "It is becoming generally accepted that failure to correct this situation arises from many reasons, but one of the prime reasons is connected with the excess power of those who possess concentrated economic power." About 400 people, mainly from the legal profession, packed the High Court of Australia at Taylor Square, Darlinghurst, for the 45-minute ceremony. The courtroom fell silent shortly after 10.15 am as the Chief Justice.

Sir Garfield Barwick, Mr Justice McTiernan, Mr Justice Gibbs, Mr Justice Stephen, Mr Justice Mason and Mr Justice Jacobs filed in, wearing full wig and robes, and took their position on the Bench. Mr Justice Murphy then entered and handed the Chief Justice his commission from the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, appointing him a Justice of the High Court. Sir Garfield shook hands with Mr Justice Murphy, who then made affirmations of allegiance to the Queen and to the office of a High Court judge and took his seat on the Bench. Mr Justice Murphy's appointment, which fills the vacancy caused by the death last year of Mr Justice Menzies, brings the High Court to its full strength of seven judges. Mrs Murphy sat at the front of the cert with the wives of other High Court judges.

The President of the Senate, Senator J. O'Byrne, and the Minister for Manufacturing Industry, Senator J. McClelland, were among those in the gallery. Speeches of welcome were made by Mr Justice Murphy's successor as Attorney-General, Mr Enderby; the NSW Solicitor-General, Mr R. J.

Marr, QC; the president of the Bar Association, Mr T. E. F. invents leading to poll: Snedden MELBOURNE, Fri day. Political events in Australia are leading inexorably towards an election, the Leader of the Federal Opposition, Mr Snedden, said today.

He told an American Chamber of Commerce lunch that the election, 'when it came, would determine the kind of place Australia waj for the rest of this century. But Mr Snedden did not specify the events that were leading to an election." He said the election would be fought not merely on the question of economic management, but on the philosophies of initiative and enterprise put by. the Liberal and Country Parties, and the centralist socialistic policies of the present Government. The question would be whether Australia would have a dynamic drive forward or a levelling down. He said an L-CP Government would cut the rate of growth of Eublic spending, which ad now reached alarming proportions.

Treasury officers now estimated the Whitlam Government was facing a $3,000 million deficit. "Mr Whitlam is so terrified he is beside himself with worry," he said. "I can only give him this comfort a great many Australians are also beside themselves with worry." Mr Snedden said an L-CP Government would not, however, cut back on the rate of growth of spending on pensions. Businessmen applauded when Mr Snedden said an L-CP Government would end the Prices Justification Tribunal set up by the Labor Government. An L-CP Government would also strengthen the Arbitration Commission.

Zambian to visit CANBERRA, Friday. The Zambian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr V. J. Mwaanga, will visit Australia from February 18 to 22 for talks with the Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, and the Minis ter for Overseas Trade, Mr Crean. No.

172 I (February, 19751 J) Hughes, QC; the president of the Law Council of Australia, Mr K. O'Leary; and the president of the Law Society of NSW, Mr A. Lox-ton. Mr Justice Murphy said his decision to leave politics and become a Justice of the High Court of Australia had been his own. "I chose to come to my new duties and new responsibilities; it was my own wish I want to make that absolutely clear." The High Court was the apex of the Judiciary, and he was con-' scious of the responsibilities vested in it by the Constitution.

His decision to leave Parliament had been made with great regret and had not been an easy one. "I will miss the day-to-day business of Parliament, but this is an inevitable consequence, as I firmly believe in the separation of the powers of the Parliament and the Judiciary." Important new developments and changes were, taking place in the law, such as those relating to the environment, the consumer, the family and the rights of children. "Many of the great issues to be determined over the rest of this century will be through the judicial processes of this court." Mr Enderby said the Australian Government wished Mr Justice. Murphy well in his new position. Mr Justice Murphy had always held a high appreciation and regard for the High Court and brought valuable assets to the Bench because of his considerable law-making experience.

FY jC. pxi Art 4thi "-T-" iiarfliniia mail Another Federal post for Egerton Mr Justice Ingrid after the ceremony. Vic lawyers reject snub, Queensland to block oil office was not a matter of public controversy. It went on: "That this meeting of the Victorian Bar expresses its regret that this course was not adopted in the- most recent appointment to the bench of the High Court." MELBOURNE, Friday. The Victorian Bar Council rejected tonight a move to snub the appointment of Mr Justice Murphy to the High Court.

The chairman of the council, Mr' R. E. McGarvie, said that the motion "regretting" Mr Justice Murphy's appointment was defeated by 188 votes to 64. The defeated motion said that to maintain the prestige of the court and to have the public's confidence in the court's decisions, positions on that bench should go to people whose fitness for Chateau Tanunda Historical Firsts naa ruled men that it was bevond the Dowers of the Commonwealth to cut off postal and tele phone services to the Rhodesia Information Centre. It granted a per-m a injunction restraining the Commonwealth from taking sucn action.

Mr Roy van de Spuy, the centre's director said in evidence yesterday that the centre received 300 to 400 telephone calls a montn seeking information about Rho desia. The centre's sole purpose was to disseminate information about Rho desia. It was not engaged in commercial activities. Mr L. J.

Priestly, QC, for the Commonwealth submitted that the Rhodesia Information Centre could not compel th Post master-General to make any entry in the telephone directory. Mr Justice Gibbs referred the matter for final determination including the question of costs to the hull High court. Mr Egerton, president of the Queensland Trades and Labour Council, is a director of Qantas Airways Limited, and was recently appointed a director of Mary Kathleen Uranium Limited. The appointment to the Petroleum and Minerals Authority is for seven years. The fun city New Zealand his expert cover of the Inter-Dominion pacing final.

The women's section features special crochet pattern for a between-seasons jacket in the new "big" look, and Leone Herring-ton's recipes for chilled soups for humid days. Dead Heart The National Times Times a thrilling report of the natural explosion of wildlife there. John Olsen has completed a collection sketches which Australians will want to collect and keep. Your newsaqent will deliver- The Nattenal Times. RIESLING BIN 20 73i ml "amunM.

mamma rtts If move deal The Queensland challenge raises doubts on other acquisitions made by the authority. The Federal Govern ment is obviously worried that other States will follow Mr Bjelke-Petersen and try to block other projects being considered by the authority while the High Court challenge is under way. The proposed Delhi deal indicates the Federal Government's willingness to buy into other minerals and energy projects, through the authority. The Government is known to be keen to buy into the north-west shelf interests held by the Burmah Oil Company, of Britain. The $255 million Burmah company has major liquidity problems, and the Government thinks it may wish to sell its 54 per cent shareholding in the Woodside-Burmah NL consortium.

Murphy with his wife the Cooper Basin oil and gas development and a 25 per cent interest in other projects. Mr Connor said the initial price was of which would be paid when the necessary formalities h'ad been completed. The rest would be paid in 28 equal quarterly instalments of $428,000, plus interest. The extra cost, limited to about $10.8 million, would be determined when a liquid hydrocarbon project in the Cooper Basin began, and would be based on the value of the reserves. Mr Connor said that the interests being acquired included production, processing, storage and other related facilities and would be backdated to July 1, 19.74.

The proposed acquisition is the authority's biggest since its formation. Diver Searchers fear a 40-year-old man may have been taken by sharks while diving for abalone in Jervis Bay on Thursday. An extensive sea and air search including a RAN still missing NX x.vv"i sums Jtvm CANBERRA, Friday. The Queensland ALP president, Mr J. Eger-ton, has been appointed a member of the Petroleum and Minerals Authority.

The Minister for Minerals and Energy, Mr Connor, announced the appointment today. Las Vegas: All th opulence and bizarr fun of ona of the most calebrated pleasure grounds, Las Vegas, is brouqht to life in a special article in tomorrow's Sun-Herald. Another article discusses the fats of the City Markets and some of the characters who have worked a lifetime in them. In the lift-out sporting section of The Sun-Herald, Bill. Whittaker sends from New life in the The Dead Heart lives.

The vast volume of water that has poured into Lake Eyre has transformed it into a qreat inland sea like the one that was vainly soliqht by early explorers. The artist John Olsen and the naturalist Vincent Ser-ve'rity have been to Lake Eyre and brouqht back ex-elusive to The Notional PRIZE WINNING WINES SI 3D Bin 20 Riesling Bronze Medals Class 11 1973 Perth Show Class 31 1973 Brisbane Show Bin 10 Claret S7ver Medal Class 5 1973 Brisbane Show Bronze Medals Class 4 1973 Brisbane Show Class 5 1973 Melbourne Show Class 5 1973 Perth Show Bin 30 Burgundy Bronze Medals Class 6 1973 Melbourne Show Class 30 1 1973 Perth Show Bin 40 Moselle I Bin 50 White Burgundy iTAYLORS of A typical mid nineteehtti century printing office. RrstBoo'tRiblished From IAN FRYKBERG CANBERRA, Friday. Queensland's Premier, Mr Bjelke-Peter-sen, is trying to block a move by the Petroleum and Minerals Authority to buy into the American-owned Delhi International Oil Corporation's oil and gas interests in Australia. The Minister for Minerals and Energy, Mr Connor, announced on February 2 that the authority would pay $24.2 million for a share of the corporation's oil and gas development interests in South Australia and Queensland.

Mr Bjelke-Petersen is understood to have told the Federal Government that the authority should not be recognised while it is challenged in the High Court. Next week, the court will beein hearing a chal lenge by the States against the validity of the authority, which the Federal Government established last year. Negotiations for the purchase were proceeding smoothly with Delhi International Oil until Mr Bjelke-Petersen's move. The proposed deal involves half of the corporation's interest in HURRY ARGYLE PRICED Not often will you helicopter, failed yesterday to find the missing diver, Mr Barrv Dumbrell, of Wollomia Road, Wol-lomia, near Nowra. Mr Dumbrell's empty boat, was recovered after he failed to return from Oil slick spoils beaches in SA ADELAIDE, Friday.

A 17,000 gallon oil slick stained beaches near Hallets Cove, south of Adelaide, this afternoon. Fifty men, with tip irucics ana a iront-end loader, will move on to the beache stomorrow to shift hundreds of tonnes of oil-sodden sand. The spill occurred when the 96,000 deadweight tonne tanker tsso Den Haac ruptured an under water hose near the Port Stanvac Refinery's jetty. The tanker lost its rud- der in the Indian Ocean three weeks ago after sail ing from the Persian Gulf port of Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia. It was towed by tug to Port Stanvac.

his diving expedition. Packs of sharks have been seen in the area by a volunteer coastal patrol diver searching for the mis sing man. The search will continue today. HURRY from 1 p.m. A.H.

969 2754 HURRY Australians had' to work long and hard; a third that most residents were migrants or transportees who preferred to read of their home country rather than of their new one. In the second half of the 19th Century, two unrelated men named George Robertson breathed life into the Australian publishing scene. One arrived In Melbourne from England in 1852 and published his first book in 1856. Most publishing between 1850 and 1890 was in Victoria, and it was Victoria which passed, in 1869, Australia's first copyright law. Robertson was the leader, and possibly the first publisher in this country to issue a book at his own risk at this time books were usually published only if the author could underwrite costs.

That initial venture was Henry Kendall's poems, "Leaves from Australian Forests" (1869). Only a few hundred of the 1,000 copies were sold, and Mr. Robertson lost 90 Pounds on the venture. The foctu of publishing shifted to Sydney In the 1890's, largely through the efforts of another George Robertson this one the founder and force behind what was to become the biggest publishing company in Australia, Angus Robertson. They published Banjo Paterson's "Man from Snowy River In 1896, and never looked back.

GRAND) OPENING COURTS CREIYIORNE ENORMOUS VALUE Several of the 'flnU' In AuitmlUn printing and publishing belong to George Howe, who was born in the West Indies, where his father was a printer. He was transported from England in 1800 to serve a sentence of seven years for shoplifting, and like many if not most convicts he remained after his sentence expired. Among the achievements of "this ingenious as Governor King called him, was the printing of the Colony's first book, the "New South Wales General Standing in 1802. The "Standing a quarto volume of 122 pages, was followed by Part II in 1805 the same year Howe began publishing the annual N.S.W. Pocket Almanack.

The Ant book appeared just a year before the Governor gave Howe permission to begin the Colony's first newspaper, (thus he was also the first editor), which he published until his death in 1821 and which his son, Robert, carried on for some years after. It It likely that the flrst book of public Interest to be published in Australia was the 1818 biography of bushranger Michael Howe (no relation to the printers) written and published by Andrew Bent, editor of the "Colonial Times" in Hobart. The nut year George Howe published the first volume of poetry In this country, "First Fruits of Australian by N.S.W. Supreme Court Justice Barron Field. Robert Howe, in 1820, followed with the first work of published poetry "Wild Notes from The Lyre of A Native Minstrel" by Charles Tompson, Jnr, a native born writer.

Robert Howe also produced Australia's first magazine, "The Australian Magazine, or Compendium of Religious, Literary and Miscellaneous as well as the first book of Hymns. Despite the efforts ef the Howes and others, book publishing and book sales in Australia had a very slow beginning. In 1833, only three booksellers as such were shown in the N.S.W. Calendar, and it was the 1850'i before there were substantial circulating libraries. Various regions are given for the slow acceptance of books, and especially of Australian books, in this country, One was a high level of illiteracy, another that FROM ONLY $39,000 (two bedroom apartment) By 1898 paperback novels were being published la Sydney by the N.S.W.

Bookstall Company, which was to issue about 5 million copies of 200 novels by 1920. The Bulletin Publishing Company also was In the early scene, luonsning dooks as eariy as isos. the early days In Melbourne, that city's George I Robertson published such Australian authors as Marcus Clarke, Adam LindsayGordon and Henry Kendall, but reception was better in Britain than at home. It was not until Banjo Paterson, CJ. Dennis and Henry Lawsoa that Australians took their own authors to their hearts.

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