The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • 6

6 THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD THURSDAY FEBRUARY 27 1997 Air noise plan New search to find elusive third submarine 30000 The report recommends different flight routes be rotated throughout die day so people in the worst-affected suburbs iwfjmting Annandale Leichhardt MarrickviUe Newtown Petersham Sydenham and Stan-more get some relief The Mayor of Ashfield Or Vince Sicari a member of the No Aircraft Noise Party said die noise contours were wrong" and did not take into account flight padis over Haberfidd and Summer H3L At a public meeting called by Waverley Council last night residents were told that Ainer-vices Australia planned a new flight path over Bondi Junction Edgediff and Vauduse The council also said Airservices Australia had plans for a flight path over Bondi Beach and Bronte But die council believed it had strong legal grounds to rkilWng Qu nan wyw area had not been affected by aircraft noise before 'for UNM RHOMBS lLk iranspofiwmer Anti-aircraft noise groups claim the Federal Government's new blueprint for the sharing of aircraft failed to assess the of noise on 30000 residents The Australian Mayoral Aviation Council representing 30 council Australia-wide has called for die plan to be withdrawn saying it is The Mayor of Botany and council chairman Councillor Ron Hoenig said yesterday that noise assessments prepared by Airservices Australia had not included 3QJ0QQ residents of Haberfidd Canada Bay'Dob-royd Point and Five Dock impossible to operate under the principle of sharing die noise if you leave out two postcodes of 30000 people" Cr Hoenig said question is where it is incompetence or a deliberate attempt to mislead" Cr Hoenig also said that areas assessed for the impact of noise did not correlate with flight tracks for at least taro runway operations Airservices Australia rejected the call to withdraw the plan said die flight paths were not fixed and represented die best noise-charing options identified through extensive community consultation It said the noise contours may differ slightly from the flight paths which were adjusted after community consultation The strict timetable did not allow enough time for new noise assessments to be completed anticipate there will be further changes resulting from this consultation" a spokesman said Under changes to the operation of Sydney Airport flight paths will be dunged radically to spread aircraft noise over more suburbs Air traffic to the north along the funnel" will be cut from die 47 per cent of flight movements when Labor was in power to 17 per cent WBcfaadKozuld aformar aavalofflcarwWittamldEBtaMbiiiarina group and balowona of jha destroyed submarines Mam ptatoron by robert pence By BOB BEALE Science and Environment Editor Aaewi to solve the i WfMl SSOT $tDC0 OBXGO I I i Li I rttu World War 1 stock oa Sydney Harbour Private geophysics interests have offered to pay for a preliminary remote-tensing search by helicopter neat mouth over peril of the outer harbour Pehn Beach and Put Hacking for the remains of the aadbeov- A spokesman for the Aue-traUaa Society of Exploration Geophysicists Mr Roger Hen-dersoa said yesterday that the latest helicopter-moanted magnetometer and global posi-tiomag equipment could theoretically survey the whole harbour withiu days to detect sunken metal objects The preBndnary flights subject to official approval were Intended to the ball rolling" in the hope of prompting a more systematic survey As well the Jap Midget Submarine Sydney representative Mr Michael Kozuki believes the Royal Australian Navy is separate plans to test new sideeennlng radar equipment targeting the submarine between Soath Head and Botany Bay A Navy spokesman said he could not confirm the claim but other Navy sources said that sack a search had been widely rumoured The spokeemaa mid the missing battery-powered most likely resting place was outside the harbour somewhere dose to the betweea Palm Beach Crouulla became magnetic anomaly indicator loops on tte Arrival of new players fuels phone call boom waves when he attempted a return landing to the submarine He punctured its floats but it apparently sank only irdy and was carried away currents If the heavily hHe at North Head stfll not recovered from the seabed from that aircraft it will be the only remnant of it that has been recovered Mr Koznld says Three 46-tonne two-man midget submarines were hImss on Sydney the day after that flight with the aim of attacking Allied shipping in tiie harbour i dally the USS Chicago Torpedoes were fired one of them narrowly miming the warship and exploding Instead beneath HMAS Kuttabul at Garden Island kflliag 21 people One midget submarine became entangled in aati-enb-marine netting off Middle Harbour and was deliberately blown up by its crew (who remained inside) another was sunk by depth charges in Taylors Bay and the third disappeared without returning to the mother submarine by a lulMMirnmniMtiimt lyst Mr Paul Budde Marne cnmfwmm other than Optus and Telstra held 95 per cent of the market in 1996t up from 8 per cent the previous year Most of tiie customer migration was at Telstra's expense But despite market share fluctuations there was more money for everyone The total telecommunications services market grew during tiie year by about 14 per cent to around $18 billion Residential users accounted for a third of the country's total expenditure on voice cub Mr Budde's analysis found The Internet market research firm wwwxonsult said 13 per cent of subscribers who tend to be more experimental telecommunications users used a service other than Telstra or Optus for long-distance calls Mr Vincent said: are looking for the best rates but the residential market's getting much more discerning we had a residential guy on the phone for 43 minutes asking us all kinds of questions about our service until we started to think he must be from a competitor But eventually he did sign up" A Telstra spokesman said many customers returned after trying new companies harbour bottom at the time suggested it had been able to escape the harbour Mr Kozuki 75 now Uves in Sydney and is one of the few surviving Japanese naval officers from the nddget submarine operations group where he was He hopes to confirm on a trip to Japan in May whether a floatplane engine found by a diver near Norah Head mi the Central Const from the that scouted the harbour the day before the attack in 1942 The pflot of that aircraft Mr Sasumi I to 82 still alive and Mr Kozuki hopes that Mr I to will be abb to provide key detafls of the mne-eyflader engine which war historians say does not seem to be from any known Allied aircraft Mr aircraft was catapulted from the deck of an Imperial Japanese Navy sub-35 nautical miles north-east of Sydney Heads in the early hours of May 30 1942 and went undetected as he flew Ms aircraft very low over the harbour to scout a route Hb aircraft flipped in the campaign he said Australia-wide residential phone users are spending more man $700J)00 a month wife Tde200Q Phone calls may be just another item ou an electricity' gas or water bill after July A far AAP Tdeoom- pany was having discussions with NSW utilities to market its phone service jointly after July Utilities already had customer billing systems in place for most households so it was relatively easy to sell phone services with their usual services he said In Melbourne a deal is already in place between AAPT and United Energy But AAPT will not move into residential telecommunications before July because after that date users will be able to a phone company other than Telstra or Optus instead of having to dial a four-digit access code every time they want to use an alternative service dialling of a code a hindrance to winning and maintaining a the spokesman said More phone firms are expected in Australia after July for the seme reason According to data collected for JUUE RMOIIUM Technology Writer Tens of thousands of Australians are deserting Telstra and 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