The Age from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Page 3

THE ACE, MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 19S9 WOOL PRICE OUTLOOK Pigeon Brings Help They Thought Water Was Fine to Castaways BRISBANE, Sunday. A homing pigeon flew into Mackay yesterday with a distress message from a lonely coral island, 50 miles east of Mackay, resulting in a search which saved three men marooned by shipwreck. UNCERTAIN Production on Rise; Carry-overs High AN appreciable increase in manufacturers' require-' raenta of raw wool will be needed before there can any significant improvement on the December level of wool prices. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics says this in a summary of the wool situation. It says world wpol production this year will be higher.

aways, Kevin Foams, Edward Trono and William including textiles) In the under-developed countries in view of the sustained recession in primary commodity prices. The high levels of stocks held at various stages be m. nTFMl iT 1 III I a' The men were the crew of the 40-foot launch. Heather H. which had sunk In 60 feet of water off Derwent Rock, about ou mues norm-east ot Mackay, at 2 D.m.

on Thursday. The distress note was sent. not by the three ship wrecked men, but bv a party of seven men who were stranded on another island In the Barrier group, deserted Penrith Island. The Heather hod taken these seven to Penrith Island last Monday, and when she did not return as arranged on Friday to take them off, they suspected the Heather had met trouble and despatched the pigeon with the message. Dated January 9, the message read: "Stranded Penrith Island.

All well. Fear Heather trouble." The pigeon reached the loft of Its owner, Mr. James Blair, of Mackav. after fly ing for two hours against strong headwinds. A widespread sea and air searcn was Degun Dy tne launches Hossock and Stradbroke and commercial aircraft, while air-sea res cue aircraft based on Townsville were alerted.

When rescued by the Hossock yesterday, the cast Carryover stocks in most countries are unusually high In relation to current rates ot mill consumption. The bureau sees the main favorable factors In the demand outlook for wool In the coming months, as: The reduced cost of wool In relation to other fibres together with a prospective increase in United States' requirements of apparel wool. A trend to heavier wool-buying by Communist countries. The widely held view that the low point In wool prices has been passed. The existence of reserve price schemes in South Africa and New Zealand which may help to oheck Oldest Australian Still Does Dishes Killed on Way to Fight Fire The father of four children was killed near Edenhope on Saturday night while driving to help fight a grass fire.

School any weakening In the tone of the world wool market. In the longer term, the prospect that economic recovery in Uie United States together with ex-nansionarv measures re- cently adopted by the British Government will improve business conditions in wool-consuming countries. Adverse Factors The bureau sees the chief unfavorable factors as: The prospect, In the short term, of a further decline in general business activity ana in aemana ior nnisnea wool products In Western Europe and Britain. The likelihood of some slackening in demand for consumer Items (probably Victorian Killed in N.S.W. Crash ALBURY, Sunday.

Francis William O'Donnell, 21, of Lansdown Road, St. Kllda, was killed instantly late yesterday in a car crash near Holbrook, New South Wales. His car collided with another car driven by Mr. Nick Venuto, ot Oeelong. Fonr people in Venutoa ear were injured.

One passenger, Mrs. Rose Menokinl, is in a critical condition in Albury Base Hospital. Venuto suffered a dislocated shoulder and -a fractured law. Two years old Angelina Venuto suffered injuries to the head and a probable fractured leg. Joseph 74, also of Geelong, received lacerations to the head and mouth.

Traffic on the highway was held up for nearly an hour while the wrecked cars were dragged clear. SYDNEY, Sunday. Friends who called to see Mrs. Margaret McGuire, of Coffs Harbor, last night on the eve of her 105th birthday, were amazed to find her helping her granddaughter, Miss Ivy McGuire, with the washing up. for Big Area Shots Fired in 80 m.p.h.

Chase Police fired several shots during an 80 m.p.h. chase along Sydney Road, near Fawkner cemetery, early Saturday morning. Caulfield Technical School, which is to have a new' junior building (see Page 1), was growing at a tremendous rate, the: Chief Inspector of Technical Schools (Mr. O. E.

Nilsson) said yesterday. Mrs. McGuire is believed to be the oldest living person born in Australia. She was borcn on a farm near Armidale on January 11, 1854, had been in indifferent health for some months and it was not expected she would be able to leave her bed for her birthday celebrations. However, she amazed everyone, Including her" doctor, by assisting In pre- Sarations for her birthday day, and by sitting In the loungeroom of her home from early morning acknowledging greetings from a constant stream of friends and relatives.

Mrs. McGuire said: "It's a ed the fontnath anrt stopped. The policemen arrested three occupants of the car, at pistol point and made them lie on the roadway until other police arrived. In another chase early Saturday morning police arrested two men at Kew and recovered nearly 300 worth ot allegedly stolen property after chasing a car along the Lower Plenty Road at Rosanna. Centre strict annrentlce3hin classes.

"In mechanical engineering, vOaulfleld Technical School has more diploma students than the Royal meiDourne uecnmcai Mr. Nilsson said. The mayor of Caulfield (Cr. Bunny) said Caunfleld council, had approved the proposal. "It Is a dead-end corner, right opposite the present technical he said.

"On the other side of the technical school is a recreation area, with bowls, tennis and croquet greens. "To shift them across to the parkland would involve a cost of between 30,000 and 40,000 in establishing the greens." Thi land on which the new school was to be built was too smau ior a cricxei pitch. The area was closely built up and no other land was available In the vicinity. "Had the council not approved, the Education department could have claimed' the land for the purpose," Or. Bunny said.

He added that there had been no protests to THESE PEOPLE AT ELWOOD yesterday were among the thousands who sought relief from the heat at the beaoh. Few Fires Despite Hot Weather Only five fires were reported In country areas during the week end despite high temperatures and winds. The biggest fire was at Guildford, seven miles south of Castlemalne. where more tnan 400 acres of grassland were destroyed on Saturday. Some fencing was burnt before the Are was brought uuaer control.

Near. Ballarat on! Saturday, Are swept "through eight acres of timber on private property close, to the Sheppard's Flat plantation. Camp Fire Firemen managed to bring it under control before It could spread into the plantation. About two acres and a half of grass and timber were destroyed in a fire at the Gilwell Park scout camp at Gembrook yesterday. It Is believed that sparks from a.

campflre began the blaze. The other fires were at Rosanna, where three acres of grassland were destroyed, and at a farm near Edenhope. In Melbourne, at least 60 grass fires most of them small occurred during the week end. The biesrest fire was at Sunshine, where 100 acres of grasslands were burnt near the Regal Quarries in Duke Street. A spark from the exhaust of a passing truck is believed to have caused the outbreak.

The chief officer of the C.F.A. (Mr. Daw) last night congratulated Victorian holiday-makers on their vigilance in preventing extensive outbreaks. This school' served as a centre for a number of technical and high schools. It was virtually a central or regional technical collegft and drew senior students Dandenong, Frankston, Moorabbln and Sandring-ham.

The -school would have more than 500 diploma students this year and about 650 next year. The number of diploma students had doubled In the past few years and within the next five years, Caulfield Technical Schol might have 1000 full-time diploma students. This was in addition to the other senior students, and the expansion Of the senior school made a new: junior school necessary. The population In the area served by the school was growing rapidly and the pressure would be increased by the larger numbers of pupils leaving the primary schools up to 1963. Caulfield Technical School was now using two tem porary premises because of the accommodation short age and had had to re He was Bruce Robson Forster, 37, a grazier, of Hearing that a grass fire was spreading towards his father-in-law property he sped towards the farm In a utility trucK.

It failed to take a bend In the Edenhope-Harrow Road, about one mile south of Edenhope, crashed into a tree and then rebounded into another. Mr. Forster was killed Instantly. The truck was cut in half by the Impact. Four Die in S.

Australia ADELAIDE, Sunday. Four people were killed in week-end road accidents in South Australia. -f- Among those killed was William John Mlddleton, ot Bockbank Grove, Ivanhoe, Melbourne. He was killed in an accident on Friday night. Mrs.

Ida May Trewella, of Wales Street, Melbourne, was admitted to the Clare Hospital after the car in which she was travelling overturned near Clare, about 80 miles north of Adelaide, this morning. Passengers Unhurt in Bus Crash None of tha 20 passengers aboard a tourist- bus was injured when a semitrailer truck crashed into the rear of the bus in Bell Street, Preston, on Saturday night. The truck Droke through panelling into the Interior of the bus. Shortly before the accident the truck was involved in another collision. Police said this was only a accident and neither vehicle was badly damaged.

The bus involved In the second accident was owned uy scenic ttoaa Tours. M0GILL3 183 ELIZABETH (or Technical Books, Novell! Slutanry. SubicrlpUons ail mai-ffitl 'k tween the mill and the consumer in most of the major wool consuming cuunines. "A rise in manufacturers' demand for wool must be preceded bv a revival of final customer demand for wool products and probably by some reduction In stocks of manufactured and semimanufactured textiles," the bureau comments. "There is no Immediate prospect of an economic revival In Western Europe, the principal market for wool products, or in the underdeveloped countries.

"Rises in the rateB of wool consumption in the United States and in Europe may partly compensate for the decline that has occurred in Western Europe and Japan. "Wool prices, in the longer term, will respond undoubtedly to a general resumption of economic growth in the main wool-consumnlg countries," the bureau says. Sabrina Was in Demand GEELONG, Sunday. Hundreds of amateur photographers broke police cordons at Ocean Grove today to take close-up shots of English stage and television personality Sabrina. Thousands of other people who were attending the Ocean Grove Surf Club's annual carnival erowded on to the beach' when Sabrina appeared to present a pennant to the winning Warmambool "march past" team.

Man Lost a Week in WA. PERTH; A search party from State ship Ksbbarll yesterday found Patrick Murphy, 26, who lost in rucreed country near Breaknock uaroor, in uie He was exhausted and weak after a week of privation. Murphy and a companion, Walter Boholm, 52. disappeared during a hunting trip. breaking over Darwin cliff tops, are still pounding the coast.

Regular storm warnings are going out from Darwin. The effects are likely to be felt here for at least another 24 hours. High winds early today caused several hundred pounds of damage to homes and other buildings. Roads Damaged Considerable damage to roads has resulted from the week's eight Inches of rain. Small trees were blown down and limbs of big trees hurled yards at the height of the cyclone.

1 A 30-foot by 14-foot Neon sign on top of the Swan Brewery was torn away by the winds. Two hundred tent dwellers on Mlndll beach had a terrible night as the winds and rain battered the camps. Many tents were torn to shreds and others damaged. Mr. M.

O'Donoghue, formerly of Sydney, said his tent was just torn away from over him. "The wife wondered what had, happened. There was a ripping noise and then we got very wet," Mr. O'Donoghue said. Many ci ts have lived lor years a Mlndil beach oecause oi shortage.

the housing The oamps are built stand big winds. to Robinson, said that Heather had struck a rock on Derwent Rock, The launch sank in two minutes and the three men just had time to jump into an eigrtwooi aingny. iney salvaged only a small case holding a few packets of cigarettes and matches before the launch went down. They then rowed three miles to a small island caUed Three Rocks. They found water on the island and managed to survive, huddled together against the rain, for 44 hours until located by Hossock yesterday morning.

The three men lived on oysters they found on the beach and fresh water in a rock pool on the top of the island. Tronc, a Mackay bookmaker, said last night: "A surging tide picked up Heather and crashed It in three motions on to the "We spent three hours In the dinghy before we made Three Rocks Island." Tronc said that the morning after the sinking they found a four-gallon drum of kerosene from the wreck had been washed up on the beach. good thing to keep busy when you can, it keeps your oiooa in gooa oraer. As late as six o'clock this evening Mrs. McGuire was still sitting up saying farewell to well-wishers.

To one of the last of them she said: "Everyone today has said I'm. looking younger than I was last year, nad I think I feel younger." Mrs. McGuire can slill converse Intelligently and possesses a grend sense of humor which she loses no opportunity to use. Her eyesight, while not good enough for reading, Is sufflcinetly srtong to permit her to move about the house and to recognise people. lydniy, K.I.W.

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Penkythman at high speed. Their patrol car's speedometer registered 80 miles an i hour as they tried to pass the speeding car. Each time they tried to head it off it swung in front of them. They fired several shots without effect. At Fawkner the fleeing car swerved on to loose gravel at the side of the road and slid past another police car blocking the road with inches to spare.

Waiting policemen fired two more shots without halting the fugitives About a quarter of a mile further on a police bullet punctured one of the rear tyres of the fleeing car. It swerved off the road, mount- Colac Pool Ready Soon COLAC, Sunday. Tenders for final work on the Colac swimming pool have been accepted. It is hoped' to open the pool officially during Kan-yana week commencing February 28. Already 26.000 has been spent on the pool.

When completed it will have cost and Lisa Cyclonic Rain and Winds in Darwin DARWIN, Sunday. Seventy-mile-per-hour winds battered Darwin early' today and torrential rains have smashed the drought on the Barkly Tablelands as the West Australian cyclone has moved eastward. Higher Education Needed by Deaf School subjects should be given precedence over technical training for deaf people, the superintendent of the Adult Deaf and Dumb Society (Mr. E. Reynolds) said on Saturday.

T25rr5 ri ill i i rTr 1H The persistent week-old cyclone is now centred just west of Daly Waters. The Weather Office chief In Darwin (Mr. Ron Ryan! said it now was of moderate Intensity, but widespread rains would continue. "Flooding is certain in the Victoria River districts," he said. Tremendous seas, often Hot Wait for Sue Young men should apply now for a position with the E.S.&A.

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