The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 60

12 The Sydney Morning Herald, Tues, November 6, 1973 12 WA Parties to merge in One octopus and 25 years ifllv to be PERTH, Monday. Merger of the Country Party and DLP into a new political party in Western Australia was agreed in principle today. one of the 90 delegates opposed the merger. The agreement in principle, when followed by the formal creation of a new party, will mean the end in the State of the 60-year-old Country Party The decision was made at a special Country Party conference in Perth. 10 days after the DLP in Western Australia had agreed in principle to the merger.

In today's vote, only CP, DLP 'National and the I 5- ear-old DLP as separate groups. No name for the new party has been decided but, in his address to the conference, the Country Party president. Mr S. A. J.

Fletcher, said a report commissioned by the federal Country Party leaned towards the name National Party of Australia, As a step towards formal creation of the new party, an immediate agreement will come into effect tinder which the parties will contest all elections before the establishment of the new party. 1 Foreign Affairs change "4i 'it a not obligatory. Australian actor Ball arrived in Sydney today after 25 years in Britain with plans to form an Australian touring theatre company. Mr Ball and his English wife Doreen, want to set up a small actors cooperative which would perform fn the larger country towns. Although he has been away for 25 years, Mr Ball knows the country towns.

He was born in Wee Waa and lived in Moree for a while before leaving Australia. "You've got to create your own work now." he said. "There's so much competition." It was a severe case of home sickness that brought him back. At 49, he wants to settle here with his wife and two youngest children. Christian and Jonathan.

He admits he was a little apprehensive about returning, but says he had always had a romantic idea about Australia. "I wanted to be an actor, to be a cowbov on the films." Mr Ball said. His first role was wres- Labor came into power last December. His first duty in the new post will be at 11 am tomorrow when he receives the Sudanese Foreign Minister, Dr Mansour Khalid. who is on a three-day visit to meet Australian minis ters.

Members of Parlia-; ment and officials. CANBERRA, Monday. Senator Willesee will be sworn in as Minister for Foreign Affairs tomorrow morning by the Governor-General, Sir Paul Hasluck. Senator Willesee takes over the portfolio from the Prime Minister, Mr Whit-lam, who has held it since Now a Pan Book only $1-65 NSW seeks 2,000 teachers By our Education Reporter The NSW Department of Education has launched an extensive adverting campaign to recruit 700 primary school teachers and 1,400 secondary teachers. It comes only 10 months after teachers seeking jobs were turned away by the department, which claimed it did not have the funds to employ them.

The year before that there was a shortage of teachers. Now the department is buying time on City and country radio and television stations to recruit teachers. The teachers are wanted to cope with increased enrolments next year and to reduce class sizes. More specialist teachers are also being sought. A department spokesman said yesterday that the response to the campaign so far had been excellent.

But the publicity officer for the NSW teachers' Federation. Mr M. Houri-han, described the recruiting procedure as "a spectacluar bureaucratic foul-up." "The department's recruiting procedure has followed a set pattern over the past three years of first claiming there is a teacher shortage and a little later a glut, followed by a further shortage. For a joint Senate team to be led by Mr David Keid (CP) with Mr Harry Sullivan (DLP) as No 2 and a Country Party candidate No 3, For all seats to be contested in the House of Representatives. The Country Party will have first choice of two ot the 10 redistributed West Australian electoral divisions and tne DLP will have the next preference.

For Country Party candidates already endorsed for the 1974 State elec tions to retain their en dorsement. Candidates for other seats will be selected to allow each party an equal chance to in seats. Any candidates elected under the arrangement will sit as members of one Parliamentary party. Barnard promises aid to councils CANBERRA, Monday. Some financial relief was in sight for local government through the Grants Commission, the deputy Prime Minister, Mr Barnard, said.

But it might be January next year before the commission could begin hearing submissions from councils, he said. In the meantime, a hand book was being prepared to help them make their submissions. Recommended, but Party' Top officials of both the CP and DLP have been given power to draw up final details of the new party and submit them to separate conferences for final approval. Each conference will move to adopt a mutually acceptable name. The terms of the elec-trol agreement now ratified by both the DLP and CP will be: That the two parties combine their organisation, finance and staff resources to give each candidate maximum support.

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UMA SYDNEY Mr Ball tling with a rubber octopus in a tank at Pine-wood Studios as a stand-in for Donald Houston in "Blue Lagoon." "Don couldn't swim he said. Mr Ball compered British children's television series. Junior Television, for three vears. He has played in "A Town Like Alice," "Sum mer of the Seventeenth Doll," "Where Eagles Dare," and "Oh, What a Lovelv War." He also starred in two British TV serials Com' pact and Crossroads. How did he view his 25 vears in the business? "I'd do it all over again.

but I dun think 1 stay away so long. upturned boat for half an hour and was rescued by Mr and Mrs John Schnei der, of Grafton, who were rettirninu from a fishing trip in their cruiser. The man told his res cuers he could not swim. Govt case ludicrous' costs had risen in any dramatic or substantial way, he said. The Social Security Department has accepted in principle the Australian Medical Association's restructuring of anaesthetic fees, which allots various costing units to each anaethetic service, according to the skill, complexity, difficulty and time involved.

The department has calculated the base value of the unit in NSW as $3.06 when the service is FRANC Le bon voyage Clash over Fees for anaesthetics should not rise by more than 2 per cent, counsel for the Commonwealth submitted to the Medical Fees Tribunal yesterday. But Mr Brian Hill, for the AMA. said the association wants a 10 per cent increase. Mr G. T.

A. Sullivan, QC, told the tribunal that a 2i per cent increase would be generous in the light of Taxation Department figures on average anaesthetists' earnings and relatively low cost increases incurred by anaesthetists. The tribunal might decide on a smaller increase because of the lack of evidence that anaesthetists' SAVED The compulsory use of seatbelts in NSW had probably saved the lives of more than 230 people in 1972, accord- Correction A funeral service for Dr Basil Helmore, the Newcastle solicitor who died on Sunday, will be held at Christ Church Cathedral at 10.45 am today. It was reported incorrectly yesterday that the funeral would be held yesterday. BY THE BELT tng to an investigation by the Department of Motor Transport.

A report by a traffic accident research unit says the predicted road death toll for 1972 was 939 against 860 dead in 1971, but by the end of 1972 the death toll was in fact 701, 25 per cent below the predicted figure. This represented the saving of 238 lives. The investigation was made by a team of medical, statistical and engineering scientists who have drawn up a detailed New issue wmmmmmm fees performed by a specialist and S2.47 when given by a general practitioner. Applying a 21 per cent increase, these figures become $3.14 and $2.53. The AMA decided on base values of $3.20 for a specialist and $2.50 for a GP.

It added a 5 per cent economic adjustment, which gave $3.36 and S2.63. The department's values are designed not to increase the total cost of anaesthetic services, but the AMA's allow for increases arising from multiple operations. Mr Hill said it was ludicrous to suggest that 21 per cent would compensate for anaesthetists' cost increases. The association's formula represented a 10 per cent rise. report after the introduction of legislation in November 1971 enforcing the use of seat belts.

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