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7 THE GUARDIAN Friday March 5 1971 Great Auk fetches 9,000 By our Arts Sales Correspondent Gestetner after-sales service starts before you spend a 'Lost' postmen create new problem in aftermath of strike By GEOFFREY WHITELEY, Northern Labour Correspondent New and accumulated problems will face the Post Office when the postmen end their strike. They are likely to mean a period of readjustment of as long as two weeks before services are back to normal. Post Office executives were discussing yesterday plans for bringing postal services gradually back to normal, and these are expected to be announced today. indication of the benefit of wise investment in antiques. Quite a flock of extinct birds were sold at the same time.

A passenger pigeon fetched 65. These used to be abundant on the great plains of the United States but the last living example died In Cincinnati Zoo In 19i4. A pair of Hulas from New Zealand, male and female, was sold for 320. The Hula was kllhx by the Maoris for the sake of the tail feathers, which Maori chiefs used as ornaments but this pair hid managed to retain their tails. Then there was a North Carolina parakeet- last known in the wild in 1901 this cost 180.

Other curiosities in the sale were an exceedingly rare shell Conus Bengalensis Okutanl, trawled up by fishermen off the coast of Thailand last year which fetched 1,350. And a male and female pair of the butterfly Ornithoptera Alexandrae Rothschild from New Guinea, which lived up to their opulent name by making 75. T) RICES at the gift London sr'erooms become enrtooser and curiouser. Sotheby's had a sale yesterday of whet they used to call natural curiosities but they now call natural history specimens and a mounted specimen of an extinct Great Auk fetched 9,000. The Great Auks were flightless seabirds of the North Atlantic finally exterminated by man in 1844.

They used to breed on St Kllda, the Calf of Man, and the Orkneys and the last record of sightings in Britain were at Count? Waterford In 1834 and St Kiida about 1840. The one sold yesterday was killed in Iceland about 1821 it was an old bird In summer plumage and was described by experts to be well preserved. It is 22 inches high. The buyers were the Rotary Kiwani, and Lion Clubs of Iceland, and the specimen ill go to the Iceland Museum of Natural History. An extremely rare semi- topeiify iney will almost certainly staff had received no training fossilised egg of the extinct bird Aepyornls maximus was sold for 1,000.

The egg Is 15in long. Aepyornls lived on Madagascar, was nine or 10ft high, weighed about half a ton, gave rise to the Arabic myth of the Roc, and was exterminated by man. The egg sold yesterday has roughly the capacity of 148 hen's eggs. Some specimens were sold in London between 1893 and 1919 for np to 70 guineas perhaps another before the strike. include an appeal to the public not to attempt to post anything but first-class mail on the first day when ork is resumed.

This would enable sorting offices to clear mail alreadv in Post Office hands, and to deal with the sudden rush of priority mail which is expected to follow the resumption. An official said The situation is going to be like the Christmas mail rush, but without the exira staff that we have then." The phased return to normal services will probably include acceptance of overseas parcels and airmail letters on the second day, and of second-class mail on the third day. The completely new problems to be faced include the introduction for the first time Many Crown post offices may have to stay closed for another day after the strike to give the returning strikers time to make the changes that would normally have taken place before February 15. There may also have to be some temporary interchanges of staff to spread the number of postal workers fully trained in the decimal system. Shortage To add to these problems, the Post Office may have to contend with a reduced labour force.

Resignations have been taking place throughout the strike, but neither the corporation nor the union was able to calculate yesterday how many strikers had given up the fight and gone to seek new jobs. The ever-increasing cost of printing a problem which vitally concerns most business men today. There's a simple answer. Nearly all the work you give to a printer could be produced more quickly in your own office on a Gestetner duplicator. At far less cost and without any lot of quality.

Gestetner office stencil and offset duplicators are very easy to use. So are the push button stencil and plate makers which back up these great machines. But that's only half the story. Your local Gestetner Manager, Carol Jauncey, is at your service before you spend a halfpenny. He'll give you down-to-earth advice.

He'll tell you what your costs are likely to be for the type of work you need. He'll suggest ways and means advise you whether to lease or buy. Practical, helpful, honest stuff. Do please give him a ring or clip the coupon. shortage of counter clerks.

Any sizable reduction in the present number could seriously affect services. An accurate calculation of the number who have left may not be possible for some time. Strikers who have taken new jobs have been obliged to go to their new employers without insurance cards or taxation forms, simply because the Post Office clerical workers who deal with the documents have themselves been on strike. Another factor causing anxiety is the permanent loss of postal business from big companies who have been forced to make private arrangements during the stoppage. Many firms now send out invoices with goods; the system has been found to work well and can save sizeable sums.

One previously steady source of income which could suffer seriously is the football pools traffic, and a spokesman said yesterday that there could be an enormous loss." The pools firms have stayed in successful business by developing the agent-collection system; Counsel claims teachers had meals 'duty' 'Misery' of the Beatles' spending of the decimalised, increased In the North-west region, the letter charges (3d for first-class. loss of staff was heine estimated at slightly over 1 per cent and. the contract to carry out their duties. A letter sent to them said it was a legal requirement of their contracts that they Before Mr Allen Klein took second-class) which should have started on February 15. Many counter staff will also be going back to work only partially trained for the decimal changeover.

Some counter although this might be regarded as insignificant in some areas, the effect could be serious in others. The Liverpool area, for instance, has an acute Mr. Carol Jauncey, Gestetner Duplicators 50 Red Bank, Manchester, M4 4EP. Telephone: 061-832 40446. Please tell mc how Gestetner can help dm.

Name Company Addreu should carry out these duties. Mr Edward Gardner, QC, for the teachers, submitted that the basic, true and principal i duty of the teachers was to teach. That was the essential i 44 nurses ill at diphtheria hospital JgB3KT7A The help you need Counsel for Durham County Council and Easington Rural Council said in the High Court yesterday that teachers who refused to supervise school meals activities in 1967 refused a duty of considerable importance," and that sudden withdrawal of supervision was bound to have drastic effects on schools aod the school meals service, with dangers arising to discipline and training. They must have been aware that the duty they refused would have serious consequences," he added. "The whole object of industrial action of this sort is to cause damage." Mr J.

R. Johnson was making the final speech for the two councils in a test case against them by two teachers, Mr Leslie Gorse, now of Camberton Road, Braintree, Essex, and Miss Gail Teacher wants an inquiry purpose of their contracts. It was not necessary for the welfare, safety, discipline, or education of children that qualified teachers should supervise meals. His clients were willing and anxious to continue their teaching duties. The hearing was adjourned until today.

to beat rising cesit over the management of the Beatles the four partners had becen overdrawing from a partnership account at the rate of 6,000 a month, counsel claimed in the High Court yesterday. Mr William Forbes told Mr Justice Stamp that in the 28 months before the Klein era the Beatles had drawn a total of 272,000 from the account, although the combined net profit available to them was only 122,000. In the pre-KIein era the four of them were drawing an average of 10,000 a month, an overdrawing of 6,000 per month," said counsel. The result, according to Dickens's Mr Micawber, was misery. By our own Reporter are affected.

A further 15 are on holiday. A spokesman for the Manchester Regional Hospital Board said qualified nurses and other staff who had left the hospital service were desperately needed. He added We have to have them, either on a temporary or full-time basis. Mr Forbes was continuing final submissions begun the day Nurses at Manchester's Mon-sall Isolation Hospital, where the city's recent diphtheria cases have been treated, have been taken ill. A quarter of the staff was absent from work yesterday and the hospital authorities appealed for qualified people to return to nursing.

The nurses have been hit by a variety of minor virus infections, possiblv because they have become run down after dealing with the unusually big influx of patients- None of them has diphtheria. Twenty-four night staff including all four sisters and 20 day staff Murray, of Rosoby Koad, Hor-den, Peterlee, Durham. On instructions from the National Union of Teachers, Mr Gorse and Miss Murray in November, 1967, refused to supervise school meals and breakers All they have to do is contact the matron." Mennwhile the diphtheria situation continues to improve and an increasing number of suspects is being sent home. There are still four confirmed cases at the hospital with 23 carriers and contacts. were sent home from their schools.

They were not paid for the three and a half days they were away, and now seek declarations that thev were that pull no unlawfully suspended or dis OBITUARY missed, and that their salary continued to accrue during their three and a half days By our Correspondent Four years after resigning the headmastership of St Aelred's Roman Catholic Secondary School at Ncwton-le-Willows. Lancashire, a Nottingham music master is seeking a public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his resignation because he claims he was forced to resign. He believes that a public inquiry will clear him of allegations which, he says, are still being made. Mr Philip Brian Smith, aged 47, now head of the music department at Faieham Comprehensive School, Nottingham, and living in Wailham Road, Woodthorpe, Nottingham, said yesterday that at the time of his resignation he was offered the alternative of resigning or being dismissed. 1 am satisfied the motive was political." he said.

I had no alternative but to resign. It was announced that I was doing so because of ill-health. That was a downright lie, as I have never been ill in my life." The present chairman of the governors, Fr John Connollv. of Lowton. said he had no comment to make on the matter.

St Aelred's is in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Liverpool and a member of the staff of the archbishop, the Most Rev G. A-Beck, confirmed that an application had been received from Mr Smith asking for a public inquiry. It was being considered. Mr Smith was formerly a member of the staff at St Grpgorv's Roman Catholic School. Kirkby, near Liverpool.

suspension. They also claim before by Mr Morris Finer, yu, in opposition to Paul McCartney's claim for the appointment of a temporary receiver of the Beatles' business affairs. It was the eleventh dav of the hearing in which Mr Finer and Mr Forbes appear for John I.ennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and Apple Corps Ltd. McCartney seeks the appointment pending trial of his action to have the group's legal partnership broken up. Mr Forbes said that after Mr Klein took over their management the Beatles' drawings continued at 11,000 per month but the amount available to them increased to 40,000 a month.

For the vear ended December 31, 1970, the net profit available for them was 840.000, out of which they drew 184,5. The combined drawings for the 21 months in which Mr Klein had been manager amounted to 252,000 out of combined total net profits of 940,000. Mr Forbes said there had been a "disastrous" situation in March. 19R9, when Mr Klein took over. Since then there had the salary due tor mat penoa or damages for breach of con Mr Percy C.

Garlick Welding by Dr Coggan punches tract. The two councils contest their claim, and allege the teachers repudiated their contracts of service by refusing to supervise meals. Mr Johnson said the teachers could have been left in no doubt as to the authorities' atti tude or their liabilities under been a remarkable change in the situation Mr Percy C. Garlick. secretary of the Lancashire Naturalists' Trust since it was founded about 10 vears ago, has died suddenly at his home in Hamilton Square, Birkenhead, at the age of 75.

He was president of the Merseyside Naturalists' Association, and was re elected at the annual meetinc last month he was also chairman of the Wirral Green Belt Council and he was formerly the National Trust representative for Cheshire for the Enterprise Neptune scheme for protecting the coastline. His interests were chiefly in wild bird study and aquaria. He spent a lot of time in a caravan studying bird migration, mainly in Cheshire. Threat to summer ferry By ERNEST DEWHURST By our Correspondent TH ARCHBISHOP of York, Dr Donald Coggan, made a personal contribution to the restoration of York Minster yesterday with a soldering iron. The occasion was a isit by the Archbishop to the workshop of the York Glaziers' Trust, where the ancient glass from the Minster is taken for restoration and preservation.

During the tour the Archbishop took over from one of the six craftsmen and soldered three copper tiles on to one of the panels from the historic fifteenth-century East window at the Minster. "His workmanship was very good." said Mr Peter Gibson, the superintendent of the workshop, who conducted Archbishop and Mrs Coggan round. The Merseyside Passenger Statuette bequest A statuette of Peter Pan, by Sir George Frampton, the sculptor of the world-famous version in Kensington Gardens, has been left to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, London. It is the gift of Sir Francis Leslie, who died on January 2. He left 21.700 net (22,535 gross), duty 1,421.

He was a former clinical assistant at Great Ormond Street. Gang took 40,000 Five masked, armed men who raided the BBC television centre at Wood Lane, Shepherd's Bush. London, on Wednesday, took about 40.000 in pay packets, it was stated yesterday. Reports soon after the raid put the pavroll loss at 20.000 Pipes stolen Thieves have stolen 200 organ pipes worth about 250 from St Peter's Church. Earleshcaton, Dewsbury.

Transport Authority is to ask the Government for permission to close the Liverpool to New Brighton summer ferry service. Whatever happens, it will stay for the rest of this year. Because of silting at the New Brighton stage, the ferry can only be operated for about four hours on each side of high water. Dredging would cost over 70,000, and possibly more later. The expects to lose about 60,000 this summer.

A special committee which reported to yesterday's meeting of the authority said the re- tinrmt invnlvpfi (tlrt not lUStlfV Some people find a CP Breaker's balanced, easy-ride action misleading. They expect a really Chess keeping the service because of The King's Indian Attack the falling returns, it aiso sai" (hot thp nnenine of the second Mersey tunnel this year No. 1,130 By LEONARD BARDEN bus services wouia De avanauie to New Brighton. It endorsed" the transport powerful machine to be a handful to operate. A CP Breaker's rapid succession of solid impacts quickly cuts through the toughest concrete.

But because the machine's weight is carried by the work, operator fatigue is minimal-a star feature of CP breaker design. Whether it's foundations, walls, roads or floors-CP make it to break it I Literature is available giving full details of CP breakers, picks and clay diggers. Send for copies. executive's intention to en courage recreation traflic on the river, and suggested that the i 1 i the Roval Iris cruise ship should be extended. i a -i M.

ii 1 A spokesman for Wallasey corporation, which takes in New Brighton, said last night that the loss would be a blow, tempered slightly by the new tunnel. Fischer's 8 P-B3 is countered by 8 P-Q4. Lee-Keene, British championship 1968, continued after 7 0-0 by 8 P-K5 P-N3 9 N-B3 P-Q3 10 PxP QxP 11 B-B4 Q-Ql and here White chose the faulty plan of swapping bishops by 12 Q-Q2 B-N2 13 B-R6 N-B4, when Black's grip on the Q5 square gave Keene the better game. Instead White should logically exploit the long white diagonal by 12 N-K5 B-N2 13 N-B4 N-B4 14 P-KR4 P-KR4 15 N-K4 P-K4 (otherwise White can establish a knight at Q6) 16 B-N5 P-B3 17 B-Q2. when Black's game is riddled with weaknesses.

6 0-0 KN-K2 7 N-B3! 04 8 N-Q2 1 White switches his strategy from an orthodox K.I. Attack to control of the Q5 outpost. His knight acts as a generai from this square, directing probes against the black position on both flanks. 8 P-Q3 9 N-B4 B-K3 10 N-Q5 P-QN4 11 N(4)-K3 R-Bl 12 P-QR4 P-QR3 13 P-QB3 P-B4 14 RPxP RPxP 15 PxP PxP 16 P-KB4 K-Rl. A tougher defence is 16 NxN 17 NxN K2.

although Black's over-extended centre remains a chronic problem. 17 Q-R5 N-KN1 18 R-R6 B-B2 19 Q-N5! The simplest plan. In an ending, Black will snon lose one or more of his weak pawns. 19 N(3)-K2 20 NxN NxN 21 R-R7 R-B2 22 NxP! Resigns. White wins easilv after 22 NxN 23 QxQ RxQ 24 RxR.

makes the general point that even in closed openings the precise order of moves for both sides is important. Istvan Bilck L. Liptay Debreczen (Hungary) tournament, 1970 1 P-K4 P-QIS4 2 N-KB3 SQUJ 3 P-Q3 P-KN3 4 P-KN3 B-N2 5 B-N2 P-K4 Black is aiming for the ideal set-up, but this move is too committal (as would be y.N-Q2 at an earlier stage by White). Curiously. Black has to advance his KP in two stages.

If 5 P-Q3 6 0-0 P-K3 (6 P-K4? 7 N-B3) 7 R-Kl KN-K2 P-B3 P-K4 (8 0-0? 9 P-Q4 PxP 10 PxP P-Q4 11 P-K5 concedes White the centre of the board, which Fischer against Panno to build a winning king's side attack) 9 N-R3 0-0 10 N-B2 followed by P-Q4 and White will have either a space advantage or a sick QP to attack. Black can stop this central advance bv 10 Q-N'3. but then 11 P-QN4 is stronir 11 PxP 12 PxP NxP 13 R-N1 P-0R4 14 P-QR3 wins the knight). The second possibility at move 5 is 5 P-K3 6 0-0 KN-K2 7 R-Kl 0-0. an idea of Keene's whereby Black aims for greater flexibility.

If now 8 QN-Q2 P-K4! and Black has his ideal blockade formation on the black squares, while Sicilian Defences by the King's Indian AttacK. This is reached against the French by 1 P-K4 P-K3 2 P-y3, and against the Sicilian by 1 P-K4 P-QB4 2 N-KBa N-QB3 (or P-Q3 or P-K3) 3 P-QX The King's Indian Attack is a popular opening, but less fashionable than would be expected from the number of players who copy Bobby Fischer's other choices such as the Najdorf Sicilian and the Ruy Lopez. Fischer almost always wins when he plays the K.I Attack, a recent example-being the bniiiancy against Panno at Buenos Aires published in this column on September 25 last year. So why. in this country at least, are there not more K.I Attacks One reason may be a system for Black which Ray Keene practises and has by implication, recommended in his useful book Flank Openings which has recently appeared in a new and updated edition).

The plan is to place the biack pawns at QB4, Q3. and K4 and have the knichts ready on QB3 and K2 for biack square manoeuvres Results with this idea are good for Black, but I am far from convinced that a st-un which ienores the whito squares is the best This week's came and analvMs show how White should handle the variation and lso Five models from the extensive range of CP demolition and excavation tools. White mates in three moves at the latest, against any defence (bv R. Krull. Schach-Echo 1970) A problem with an amusing solution, easy once vou see it Solution No.

1.129 1 BxBP right with the threat of 2 R-QS mate- Taimanov feared the repH 1 RxP cb 2 RxR RxR ch 3 KxR ch but after 4 K-B3 NxR 5 P-B4 traps the knight and wins on material. In the same 1 B-R6 P-RS 2 R-NS ch K-K2 3 R-N7 ch led to a draw by perpetual check 2 PxP RxP would be risky for White. 1 B-B4? P-R6 or 1 BxRP N-K6 or 1 B-Bl R-R also give Black at least a draw. New hotel inquiry By our Planning Correspondent Public fury at the outline planning permission given for a large hotel on the banks of the Avon Gorge at Bristol has had effect. Mr Peter Walicer, Environment Minister, has decided to hold a Local Inquiry to see whether permission should be revoked.

Mr Walkers decision will mean the loss of 126,000 Exchequer cash towards the project. Revocation Orders, which involve the local authority in Sonsolidaf ed IPneumotio COMPRESSORS AND POWER TOOLS There are Consolidated Pneumatic branches throughout the country For service in your area telephone 061 -872 2832 CONSOUDATED PNEUKATIC T001 COMPANY 10NCW00B ROAD. TRAFFORO PARK. MANCHESTER HIT 11 Th Guardian Chess Book's Method Chess section recommends readers who open with 1 P-K4 to counter the French and compensation, are extremely 1 rare..