The Age from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • 1

60 0421 (Classified 60 0611) Mondoy February 7 1977 250 Spencer St Melbourne 30 Pages 1 23rd Year NEWS SUMMARY WHERE STORM HIT VIC Business hits at Canberra THE AG The law and your rights Sally Wilkins discusses your rights and obligations if you are detained or arrested by police The first of two articles 8 TONGALA ROCHESTER KYABRAM GIRGARRE STANHOPE 9 Kilometres Miles Body baffles police Homicide detectives are baffled by the discovery of a young Aboriginal woman body on the Lake Tyers settlement 3 PNG wants more aid Papua New Guinea is expected to ask Mr Fraser to increase aid to compensate for Australia's devaluation 3 Conservaiion warning A State conservation plan for Mornington Peninsula could have serious consequences according to a report 3 No seals no taxes The Mayor of Darwin will refuse to nav taxes if the Northern Territory loses representation in the Senate 5 Decision day for SEC Talks today will determine whether Vic-toria is about to face severe power restrictions Indian election The first major election campaign by Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ends in disorder 6 A MILESTONE FOR THE MODERN ELIZABETHANS 1 JmB Violent storm sweeps State By MICHAEL GORDON Maternity fashions How do you find the right maternity clothes? Anne Latreille gives practical advice on making buying and wearing them 16 Kidnap children The parents of kidnapped Rhodesian pupils are let into Botswana to see their children after paying a $316 road levy 7 Warder walkout hit State Social Welfare Minister Dixon says a walkout by 50 Pentridge prison officers is extreme and irresponsible 10 Inside story on sheep A Wimmera farmer has found new way to the golden fleece: his sheep kept in sheds and hand fed recently had wool sold for top prices 11 ITOMOMOWfl Typhoid suspect That $200 dinner A Sydney woman whose two-year-old daughter has typhoid is a suspiseted carrier of the disease 15 Winneke may return Solicitor Mr Michael Winneke faces pressure to return to Melbourne City Council 15 ODD SPOT A dog in Erma Sicily tracked Iris master to the local prison after he had been iailed The animal has now also been sentenced to ease the paiir of separation The wine was up to 250 years old the dinner cost S200 a head Dan Murphy was there and describes it in his column tomorrow A violent storm unroofed dozens of houses and caused an estimated $4 million damage to property in northern Victoria on Saturday The storm caused major blackouts throughout Melbourne closed airports uprooted hundreds of trees and ripped boats on the Bay from their moorings Lightning strikes were responsible for at least 110 fires in country areas One fire burnt out 15000 hectares in the Little Desert National Park Firefighters used a helicopter and six bulldozers to control the blaze A third of the national park was burnt out before the fire was contained just five kilometres from the township of Dim-boola 100 kmh Winds well over 100 kilometres an hour were reported as the storm ripped through a series of towms in the Echuca area shortly after 4 pm on Saturday Insurance assessors said one in five houses suffered serious roof damage over large areas of Echuca Tongala and Girgarre One roof ripped from a house at Girgarre 180 kilometres north of Melbourne was carried for 100 metres Local emergency services used huge tarpaulins to cover the roofs of most of the badly damaged homes Tn Echuca three caravan parks and saleyards were devastated the drive-in screen was ripped from the ground and at least 100 houses were damaged In four short minutes the smaller town of Tongala had roots ripped front two schools and a hardware store demolished Every house was damaged INDEX TO PAGES value sinking EZBgEil3KSai CITY: Fine mostly sunny Expected top temperature 24 (yesterday 21 i Details 25 By ELISABETH STEREL and TONY WALKER high level of unemployment is costing the economy about $2200 million a year in lost consumer spending The figure was released by the Associated Chambers of Manufactures yesterday amid growing criticism of Federal Government economic policy by business leaders and employer groups The rift between the Government and business widened yesterday when the Acting Treasurer Mr Robinson criticised the business community for undermining confidence in the economy He called on business leaders to show effective leadership" and bit of corporate in economic matters Mr Robinson accused those who called for tax cuts of to the Hobbyhorse Speaking from his Gold Coast electorate he said: who get on a hobbyhorse ought to be careful not to damage the national interest of business people and others preaching gloom they oughi to be more positive they ought to show more effective leadership should realise that there aresigns the economy is improving and as long as we have a commonsense approach to industrial relations there is every reason to have a greater measure of A spokesman for the Chamber of Manufactures Mr John Andrew said the figure of $2200 million was calculated as the difference between unemployment benefits and average weekly earnings This could fairly be described as "discretionary he said Mr Andrew said it indicated how important employment was in getting the economy moving again Uncertainty Mr statement brought a swift reply from the President of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce Mr Eugene Falk "There is tremendous uncertainty by business in the future "There is a complete lack of policies for the long-term that permit business to plan with any sort of He sid business leaders and employer groups were forced to voice publicly their dissent with the policies because the Government refused to meet them to discuss the economy Both the business community and trade unions had called for tripartite conferences on the economy many times but the Government had not responded Mr Falk said Mr Robinson is genuinely interested in business viewpoints on the economy he should arrange a he said The executive director of the Australian Council of Federation Mr George Polites said it was clear ihat the Government's economic ap-proach was not effective needs to be a review of he said He said the Government should cut sales tax immediately by 30 per cent and encourage the States to either reduce or eliminate payroll tax It was also time the Government set about developing a complete manpower planning policy he said The secretary of the Victorian Employers Federation Mr Ian Spicer said that if the federal Government expected the itnpeius for new jobs to come from the private sector it would have to offer incentives to employers The Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs Mr Howard last night also called for greater understanding from business calling for tax cuts don't understand want to understand the link between the deficit and the capacity to beat inflation" he said The Government had not been given enough credit for its tax reforms particularly tax indexation He believed there was community acceptance" of the Government's economic strategy think the Government is holding its line and is doing so very weE" Mr Huttard described as nonsense suggestions that the Government was instituting a credit squeeze FDR STEDIE By PRUE INNES newest piece of real estate Schofield's Island in Lake Victoria is no longer for sale In fact it is no longer there The controversial island named after the fisherman who found it appeared near Loch Sport early on Thursday morning only hours after a meteor was sighted over Gippsland But scientists have discounted any possibility that the sudden appearance of the 90-metre island was connected in any way with the meteor and say the tw'o events were pure coincidence Yesterday a Loch Sport real estate agent Mr Alex McEwan said the island had gradually disappeared over the past three days He said the island was barely visible yesterday and would have disappeared by today When winds blew waves on the lake the island could not be seen he said He said the township of loch Sport was disappointed that the meteor had not landed in the lake causing the island to appear as locals originally thought would have been one of the greatest discoveries of all he said sort of put the place on the map" Yesterday after an influx of scientists geologists and tourists Loch Sport was returning to normal Melbourne University geologist Professor John Lovering said the next step was to try to fix the exact path of the meteor and possibly to search for it At left the Queen as she rode in the Coronation coach wearing the Imperial State Crown In LONDON Prince Philip yesterday accused Britons of being with Writing in the Sunday Mirror in a review of the 25-year reign he strongly attacks what he calls the "new Poet tribute 2 UK obsessed with sex says Philip 7 Twenty-hve years ago yesterday the young Princess Elizabeth became Queen It was on February 6 1952 while on a visit to Kenya that she acceded to the throne on the death of her father King George VI This photograph of the Queen now 50 and the Duke of Edinburgh 55 is one of a special series taken for her Silver Jubilee It was released for publication today It shows the Queen and the Duke in the library at Balmoral during their traditional summer break in Scotland last year EXECUTIVE FLEET RENAULT 12's At Girgarre roads were blocked by uprooted trees Houses cow sheds and farm buildings were extensively damaged and witnesses said one machine shed was lifted from the ground before being dropped undamaged several metres away The local policeman Senior Constable Harry Hoskin said the storm descended like a cyclone and devastated the area in less than 10 minutes of galvanised iron were flying left right and gentre and one piece was embedded in a head of a he said A spokesman fur the State Electricity Cummission said high electrical activity in storms on Saturday was responsible for a series of blackouts in Melbourne Some suburbs were without power for 12 hours and St Andrews 38 kilometres north-east of Melbourne was blacked out for more than 20 hours Lightning sets off fires Lightning set off a number of fires throughout the State last night A Country Fire Authority spokesman said about 12 fires were stalled in elec trical storms after 6 pm They ranged from a forest at Lome to areas near Winion and Glen-rowan The spokesman said the CFA had 41 lire calls yes terday including las fires Meanwhile large area' of south-west New South Wales were ahlae last night with at least eight bushl'ires burning uncheck ed in the shires of Balran-ald and Wentworth Balranald shire engineer Mr Fred Grabaseh said lire north of Fusion had burned out more than 15000 hectares of scrub land after lightning struck on Saturday afternoon Storm pictures 3 We have a wide range of colours to choose from in both manual and automatic Renault All executive driven cars prices from $4290 Victoria trounces SA 0 Get one FREE for every two you buy World Record Club's Summer Programme includes: John Paul Young: JPY Bay City Rollers: Dedication Wouldn't You Like It? 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Victoria scored a great victory over South Australia iri the Sheffield Shield match in Adelaide yesterday a day marked by some superb batting by the visitors and a sensational collapse by SA batting heroes were captain Richie Robinson (left) who scored a memorable 185 and his young North-cote team-mate Brendan McArdle who made 78 in his Shield debut I heir efforts steered Victoria to a first innings total of 499 a lead of 209 Then McArdle joined forces with fellow-opening bowler lan Lallan to wreck the SA second innings allan finished with 515 and McArdle with 340 as SA was bundled out in us second innings for only 86 win by an innings and 123 runs was achieved in 52 minutes under three days and took it to equal second place behind Western Australia on the Shield table Peter Metalline reports 30 Sport inside Chappell brilliant Australian captain Greg Chappell hit a flawless 130 not out against Wellington yesterday and showed his fellow batsmen how 10 play on the softer New Zealand pitches He was at his brilliant best in his first long innings since the second Test against Pakistan Chappell is convinced the Australians have done their homework and are striking furm in time for the Tests Report 30 Walk for Tliggins Leading jockey Roy Higgins has sprung a surprise by deciding to ride Tommy Smith's horse Cheyne Walk in the big spring races instead of Bart boom colt Ashbah Cheyne Walk will tackle champion filly Surround and the other weight-forage stars in the Orr Stakes over 1400 metres at Sundown next Saturday Tony Kennedy reports 30 Example Renault 12 GL IJJ-142 Renault 12 (AUSTRALIA) PTY LTD TO: WORLD RECORD CLUB 60S Camberwell Read Hartwell Vic 3124 Please send me without obi ittion details ot your programme on Record and Cassette 771 Nepean Highway MOORABBIN Phone 97 5877 Big cities lag in 3 IMCT 2236 HP 7f 4.