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HMAS Brisbane ties up in Darwn at 9 this morning as the vanguard of a .massive relief effort by the Royal Australian Navy.

The Brisbane is a mod- Arrivals on the follow-ern guided missile cruiser ing days will consist of: of 4500 tons, with a nor- Thursday, 9.30am mal complement of 321 HMAS Sta'lwart, :fleet men and 12 officers com- maintenance ship of manded by Captain Hud- 15,500 tons with complete son. workshop facilities.

She will be closely fol- Friday, 8am - HMAS lowed into port by the Supply, :fleet tanker of hydrographic v e s s e 1 30,0~ tons. HMAS Flinders. Friday, 8am - HMAS

Hobart, sister ship to Brisbane.

Friday, 8am - HMAS Vendetta, a destroyer.

We're getting on top says Stretton

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that had annoyed him concerned reports in the south of discrimination against minority groups. Then, tomorrow, the

aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne arrives at 9.30 am with huge quantities of construction materials and squads of navy tech­nicians.

The Melbourne will be accompanied by the des­troyer escort HMAS Stuart.

1 Sunday - Two heavy

landing craft, HMAS Betano and HMAS Balilt­papan.

Two smaller landing craft, HMAS Tarakan, and HMAS Brunei, will arrive at a latter date.

T·he Darwin High School was the scene of many tearful. farewells, wth many men seeing off their wives and fa.milies often not knowing when or where they would see each other again. The High School was a registration centre and assembly point for people awaiting transportation to the airport and it often involved long hours in the hot sun.

"I was asked to look into the reports and find out if there had been any discrimination against Aooriginals." he said.

"I had already given orders that no Aboriginal was to be moved out of Darwin to anywhere against his will.

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' Cyclone Tracy claim­ed the lives of 13 children.

They were amongst the 48 victims found in the rubble of Darwin so far.

Dr Paul Mecklin, senior specialist and anaesthe­tist at the Darwin Hospi­tal was killeQ. at his home in Mitchell $treet.

Underground shelters seen the

as answer

SYDNEY - Northern Territory Minister Dr Patterson flew into Syd­ney yesterday after the better part of a week in Darwin, and1 told report­ers he would call for all new houses in Darwin to have stormproof under­ground shelters.

Dr Patterson was the first Government minis­ter on the scene after Cyclone Tracy hit on Christmas morning.

With the director gen­eral of the Natural Emer­gency Services, Major­General Alan Stretton, he drew up the first plans for the massive Darwin airlift.

Before he left Sydney airport, Dr Patterson said he believed Darwin would be rebuilt on the same site, because of the high quality port facilit­ies established there.

He said the Federal Government would seek the best technical advis­ors the world could pro­vide, for the planned re­construction.

Darwin refugees wor­ried about the safety of pets they were forced to leave behind can now find out if their animals are still alive and well.

A team from the New South Wales Animal Wel­fare League has been in Darwin for several days and a spokesman says they have the situation "well in hand."

ch·ildren :died Darwin rabble

One person died from natural causes, bringing total deaths to 49.

Susan Rose Clark. Dean William Burgess. Malini Palathil Bell. Cecil Henry Bonner. Paul Alister Mecklln. Dorothy Bloomfield.

I.R.A.B. Rennie. Paul Mark Chaney (6 Richard Thompson. months). Major Bungun. Louisa Fanny Butler. Nine of the fatalities re­

main unidentified. Their photographs may be in­spected at Darwin Police Station, Deceased Body Identification Section.

Andrew Mark Bruhn. Michael John Knox. Dennis Holten. Koji Yoshida. Kylie Jane Stephenson. Thomas William Han-John Turner (69 years). Molly Williams. Owen Lay (Lai).

son. Arthur Fong Lim. Kenneth James Scott The next of kin of 10 Kerry Linda Williams. Wheatley. victims have not yet been

The dead are: Jennifer Anpe ~ood. Billy Muir.

Charles Dibua. Peter Dewar. notified. When they are, -Gherry Leone Rese Ste-" ~-.Geraldine ~ Elizabeth ~ more·· -names-·.·will be re-

phenson. .~ Brown. leased. r.

BUILDING MATERIALS OUR FIRST SYDNEY. - Labor and Immigration Minister, Mr

Clyde Cameron says the Federal Government is plan­ning to fly building material into Darwin as quickly as possible.

Mr Cameron said yesterday the main difficulty associated with supplying material to Darwin is the distance from supplies and resources.

He says reconstruction cannot begin immediately because a plan will have to be drawn up.

Speaking to reporters inunediately after the Cab-

PRIORITY inet meeting yesterday, Mr Cameron said the re.:. construction of the shattered city will supply jobs for many unemployed people in Darwin, and also for those who have left the city.

He said many people who have already left the city, will be associated with planning and operation of the reconstruction program.

Mr Cameron says people who have lost their jobs in the area are receiving special unemployment bene-fits. ·

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PNG. help· for Darwin

PORT MORESBY, Monda.y Government and civil defence officials

program," said.

Mr Gombo

Elsewhere in the coun­try, the disaster has promped spontaneous of­fers of help and gifts from both the largely Australian exp a tr i ate population of 39,000 and Papua New Guineans.

met here today under h orders from Chief Minis- T d • ter Michael Somare to ree Le plan an urgent Papua New Guinea relief effort •

plane for Darwin. Ln Mr Soma.re, wno de­

scribed himself at the weekend as "deeply griev­ed and saddened" by the disaster, has ordered the formation of a special committee to co-ordinate the flow of gifts and supplies.

The committee, com­prising representatives of Government departments and the Red Cross, under the leadership of acting Civil Defence Director Mr Kipling Gombo, held its first meeting yesterday morning in anticipation of an Australian Govern­ment plea for assistance.

"The Australian Gov­ernment has not yet re­quested help, so at present we are discussing what . facilities we can utilise as the first step in our aid

BRISBANE The search has resumed in the sea off Mackay in Queensland for the body of one of three people killed in a light aircraft crash on Sunday after­noon.

The bodies of the pilot Neal Alan Darrach, 46,

. of Mackay, and a passen­ger, Rachael Susan Dodd, 21, also of Mackay, were recovered soon after the Cessna 172 plummetted in­to the sea about 16 kil­ometres south of Brampt­on Island.

Rescue aircraft spotted the body of another man floating in the sea - but it had disappeared by the time rescue vessels reach­ed the scene.

Junie takes the job

SYDNEY - Miss Junie Morosi has said that "ex­traordinary encourage­ment from strangers" helped to change her mind about accepting a job with the Deputy Prime Minister, Dr Cairns.

She said complete strangers came up to her in shops, retaurants and on the streets telling her to go back.

Dr Cairns announced on Sunday that Miss Morosi, 41, would become one of his prvate secre­taries, and said he was satisfied she is qualified for the job.

Guerrillas successful

MANAGUA, Nicaragua., Monday. - The Govern­ment of Nicaragua has agreed to nearly all the damands of left-wing guerrillas holding 12 hos­tages in the capital, Man-ag-·a.

A plane has been made

available to fly the guer­rillas to Coba, along with 15 of their comrades re­lisagreement over the ransom to be paid.

But there is still some leased from prison in Nicaragua.

The guerrillas have also demanded an $8 million ransom for their hostages - but a spokesman for President Somoza says there's not that much money in all the banks in the country.

The guerrillas snatched 36 hostages on Friday night when they shot their way into a diplo­matic cocktail party -but most of their pris­ers have since been freed.

Prisoners riot

DUBLIN Monday. -Troops have used high pressure water hoses to break up a riot at Ire­land's top-security Port­laoise jail.

Hundreds of troops and police moved into the prison, about 80 kilo­meters south of Dublin, after inmates seized 14 hostages and broke up a cell block.

Army convoy for Darwin

SYDNEY.- Two road convoys of 20-tonne army trucks are on their way from Sydney to Cairns with heavy bridging equipment to repair t h e Darwin wharves.

Twelve trailers of equipment rnake up the convoy. Their loads will be transferred to navy landing craft at Cairns, :i.nd taken to Darwin.

Another eight trailer ~oads of emergency con­struction equir..ment will leave today.

The human airlift out of Darwin con-inued yesterday, with

military aircraft only. Aircraft from Australia, New Zealand and the United States continued their operations.

A Defence Depart­ment official said in Darwin yesterday that since Christmas Day there had been 145 flights out of Darwin-64 of them military flights.

Reporters wanting to fly to the shattered city, are being asked to pay their fares for the first time. During the height of the emer­gency, they were flown to the city free by the armed forces and com­mercial airlines.

The Navy arrives in Darwin today. HMAS Flinders and Brisbane will arrive in Darwin to survey the harbor before the main naval flotilla arrives -early to­morrow.

Appeal delayed

"Those who want to go to settlements around Darwin are already being ft.own there.

"Because only seven Aboriginals arrived in Sydney on one :flight there were suggestions that we w e r e discriminating against them by putting white women and children first.

"This sort of thing makes me sick. The only discrimination I've been able to report back to Canberra has been that we have perhaps taken more consiaeration over the Aboriginal population than we have over the white people of Darwin."

Another speaker at the conference, Mr George Redmond, northern direc­tor of the Department of Housing and Construction said that by tonight Dar­win would have available between 15 and 17 mega­watts of power.

This compared with the city's normal consump­tion of about 42 mega­watts.

Said Mr Redmond: "When I got up on Christ­mas Day and saw that all Darwin's distribution lines were down and broken I would have said it would have been at least siX months before we got power anywhere.

"Now I can say that we will ha Ve power to most of Darwin within a month and possibly sooner than that."

Mr Redmond said that disaster workers had al­ready roofed 15 buildings important to relief work, including Darwin Hospital and several schools.

He said that siX Her­cules aircraft would be­tween them :fly in 100 tonnes of iron roofing material tomorrow so that the work of replacing roofs on houses could go forward.

"We hope to have 1000 houses roofed and habit­able within a month," he said.

Cash . for injured

SYDNEY. - The Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, said legislation already before Federal Parliament would ensure that every person injured by any cause during the cyclone will receive cash compen-

SYDNEY. Radio sation . 2UE in Sydney and the The Prime Minister Royal Alexandrina Hospi- said another Bill to be tal for Children say it's drawn up for early action been necessary to post- when Parliament resumes pone the planned January will allot special funds appeal for an intensive for social security pay­care ambulance. ments and loss repay-

The station says the ments for the people in decision was taken so as Darwin. not to distract the public Cabinet had not esti­generosity from current mated what ftll).ds would appeals for assistance to be needed - but should the victims of the Darwin know the amount in four disaster. weeks' time. The N.T. News, Tuesday, December 31, 1974- 3