75 million will be lent to the Australian Industry Development Corporation,
10 million goes to the Australian National Line,
and 15 million to the State's Housing Assistance Program.
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The who's who of Australian racing gathered at City Hall this morning
on the eve of Brisbane's premier spread race, the Stradbroke Handicap.
The occasion was the first civic reception held in Brisbane
to mark the start of the winter racing carnival.
At the function were officials of the Queensland Turf Club
and Brisbane Amateur Turf Club and local and interstate owners, trainers and jockeys.
Deputy Lord Mayor Alderman Brian Walsh in welcoming the guests
said the racing industry provided a lot of finance and tourism for the city.
Chairman of the QTC, Sir Douglas Wadley, replied by saying
that although prize money for this year's carnival had been cut,
there would still be more than three quarters of a million dollars
distributed during the carnival.
A Commonwealth police officer told the Melbourne City Court today
that British MP, Mr John Stonehouse,
confessed last December to faking his disappearance in Florida.
Detective Inspector John Sullivan said Stonehouse told him
he wanted to escape from extraordinary political and business pressures
and blackmail in England.
Inspector Sullivan was the first witness at a hearing
to consider extraditing Stonehouse to England
to face charges alleging a $250,000 conspiracy and theft.
Sullivan told the court Stonehouse faked the identity of a dead man
at Miami Beach, Florida, before flying to Australia as a migrant.
Lions were on the prowl at Brisbane Airport today.
Not the man-eating variety, but the service club genus
that turned out in force to farewell the Governor-Elect of District 201K.
Mr Brian McGrath of Barden flew to Sydney today
where he will join 22 other District leaders before flying to America
to be installed by the International President.
Mr McGrath will be accompanied by his wife Betty,
who is also an ardent worker on the Lions Women's Auxiliary.
Mr McGrath, who was International Relations Officer for the District,
has worked extensively on overseas Lions projects.
Among those at the airport was the present District Governor,
Mr Sid McDonald.
He will contest the next City Council election for the Liberal Party.
The Lions, one of the world's most active service clubs,
boasts a worldwide membership of more than one and a half million members.
In Britain there has been a big demonstration of the military might of NATO countries.
Heading the demonstration on the Salisbury Plain were 900 troops and 30 guns.
A multinational salvo from 105mm howitzers of the Allied Mobile Force,
NATO's Air Transportable Permanent Fire Brigade,
whose role in life is to be first in the line of fire
if ever Warsaw Pact forces should attack.
British Army airborne gunners, put down by Puma helicopters,
join the AMF in this display.
The British Army is the first in the line of fire
Guns put down by Puma helicopters join the AMF in this display.
And as they go into action, British self-propelled Abbott guns sweep in from the flank.
Heavier self-propelled guns capable of firing nuclear shells are also brought into play.
The Allied Mobile Force is unique in its multinational composition
and in the philosophy behind it, which stated brutally
is that the first NATO soldiers to be killed in any future war
should belong to as many different countries as possible
to signify that an attack on one is an attack on all.
But if the force illustrates NATO's unity, it also shows up its divisions.
Ideally its guns should be standardized, but this is not so.
The British, the Italians and the Germans all have the Italian pack howitzer,
but the Americans and the Belgians have different types
and there'll be further diversification later this year
when the British change to a new light 105.
Body contact has made its way back on the dance floor
in a new craze that's sweeping the world, but it's not as romantic as it sounds.
You could end up covered in bruises, as reporter Linda Scott found out.
Rock and roll, the jive, the twist and the stomp,
forget all that, there's a new dance craze now it's called the bump.
The craze started about 12 months ago in America
and American sailors brought it here.
The local girls caught on pretty quick though
as Sandra King and Gertie Pai won't show you how to do it.
Music
Well it's different and if you're young enough and got the energy, why not?
World heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali has arrived in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur
to prepare for his title fight against Britain's Joe Bugner.
He was given a noisy and sometimes rowdy welcome
by a crowd of supporters estimated at 10,000 people.
Ali is in Kuala Lumpur for his title fight with Britain's Joe Bugner,
the European champion which is scheduled for July the 1st.
Ali who's now 33 admitted that he's near the end of his reign
but he still says he'll beat Joe Bugner and after him Joe Fresio.
The New South Wales Premier Mr Lewis today led an angry wave of outrage
at the federal government's 1.6 million dollar handout to the arts.
Mr Lewis said the grants were the most ridiculous waste of public money
he'd seen during his term in parliament.
He said it was ridiculous that the federal government should announce the grants
at a time when the states were fighting for their existence.
The grants which were announced last night include money for a daily festival,
and $15,000 to a man who wants to compose computerized music.
A woman who was alleged to have been paid $1,746 extra on a widow's pension
was fined $75 in the Brisbane Magistrates Court today.
The Australian government prosecutor Mr I.W. Bates said 57 years old
Lillian Hessel Fulton of Margate Street, Mount Gravatt
claimed that for three years she was unemployed when in fact she'd worked at a city hotel.
The money will be taken out of her widow's pension over a period of time.
CSIRO scientists and staff members have stepped up their protest
about the proposed transfer of the minerals research and solar energy units
to the Department of Minerals and Energy.
Strongly worded telegrams were sent today to the Prime Minister Mr Whitlam
and the Acting Minister for Science Dr Moss Cass.
They called on the government to reverse its decision,
to strengthen the existing structure of the CSIRO
and to hold top level urgent discussions on the move.
The Executive Chairman of the CSIRO Dr Price
has already said the move could destroy Australia's highly respected CSIRO.
In just a moment, Channel 7 Eyewitness News continues
when Carolyn brings you notes on the weather.
Great idea of yours to come south during winter.
Let's have some music. A little hot rock will warm you up.
Very good Brewster, if I could use my fingers I'd make a note of it.
Some things like penguins are just naturally built for the cold.
Penguins and Brewsters. Not so however with petrol.
This is why the super shell you buy today is a special anti-stall winter formula.
And stalling is not just a nuisance, it can be dangerous.
It can be pretty too.
Shell winter formula prevents ice from building up in the carburettor
by actually lowering the freezing point of the water vapor in the air.
In this way the flow of air and petrol vapor is not impaired when you're idling
and your engine does not stall as a result of icing.
So you drive to work, you're safer and more relaxing.
And more fun too.
Got a level street directory?
Anti-stall winter formula.
Maybe. She got a sister?
It's the little extra you'd expect from Shell.
Sugar, yes. Coffee, yes.
And did you remember my washing powder?
Yes, I got you some lemon fad.
Fad? It's great for whitening.
But I don't use fad.
You should. With fad everything smells so fresh.
You know, because fad's lemon charged.
With lemon fragrance.
Lemon charged? Oh, come now, you can't expect me to believe.
Fab is charged with lemon fragrance and fab white is lemon fresh.
Look, Chief. What? White tornado.
What? White tornado down the street.
What a story.
Here we are.
Somewhere at the front page. In here.
Hang on fellas, that's my Ajax Liquid.
A white tornado in a bottle.
Yes, Ajax Liquid. Smell.
Hey, strong ammonia.
Ajax Liquid's got strong ammonia for heavy duty cleaning
and built up corner grease.
Ajax Liquid cleans like a white tornado.
A white tornado in a bottle, Jimmy.
That's Ajax Liquid.
For my money, I'm riding my way.
Oh, no, yeah.
Hello, here's the latest weather report for Friday the 13th
and it's presented by the makers of Spray Fresh.
Before I go on with the temperature extremes over the state today,
there's a strong wind warning current for all coastal areas
along the Queensland coastline
and tonight winds will be from 25 to 30 knots
and these should continue for the next 24 hours.
I'm afraid it doesn't look like a good day for the coast at all tomorrow.
Today's maximum reached 31 degrees,
which was reported from, whoops, from Palmeville.
And just to show you how cold it was last night,
the minimum went down to minus 5 degrees at Bolin, just in here.
Well, some interesting things are happening on the weather map today.
Northern New South Wales coastal areas had very strong gale winds today
and along the Queensland coast we also had strong winds.
These were caused by the combined effect of this high pressure system
and this low just here.
Also, we had colder temperatures, lower temperatures last night
and the weather has been generally fine, though.
Saturday, unfortunately, some showers are going to develop
in southern coastal areas and Sunday and Monday should see
these showers developing further along the coast,
to the central and northern coasts.
Also, widespread frosts are forecast for the weekend
and there is a moderate to high fire danger for most inland areas.
You got all that?
Brisbane's temperatures today, they were serious.
It dropped to 8 degrees last night.
That increased to a high of 19 today,
which was one cooler than what we did expect.
This switch area was 8 and that rose to, no, it was 6, sorry,
and that rose to 19 degrees.
Further south in Sydney, 0.6 of a millimetre of rain was recorded
with temperatures rising from 6 to 16 degrees.
In Canberra last night, the minimum dropped to 3,
went up to 17 during the day.
Melbourne also had a bit of rain today,
1 millimetre and temperatures were 12 and 9 degrees.
Well, here's the bad news for Brisbane City.
Fine at first, though cloudy, with a few showers developing tomorrow
and are you ready for this?
Dropping to 7 degrees tonight,
so you better turn your electric blankets on now.
Going up to 16 during the day,
we haven't had a day as cold as that as yet,
with cold, gusty, southerly winds.
If you're watching from Red Cliff in the Bayside area,
seas will be rough with southerly, 20-knot winds and squally.
Don't forget that there's a strong wind warning current for the bay
and a few showers are expected to develop,
so you might give the bay a mist tomorrow.
If you're interested, though, in the tides,
the first high tide of 2.3 metres will be at 12.29am
and low water of 0.3 of a metre at 7.20 in the morning.
Toowoomba, just listen to this, it's going to be zero there tonight.
The maximum tomorrow will reach 16 degrees with fine weather.
The S-Switch area going to 18, also fine there.
Unfortunately for the coast,
showers developing tonight on the Gold Coast,
the maximum at Southport will reach 16 degrees
and at the Sunshine Coast, fine 17 degrees.
For those of you flying interstate tomorrow, Sydney,
you'll have a few showers there, so take your umbrella, 15 and 7.
Canberra, cold and dry weather tomorrow, 11 and 0.
It's as bad as Toowoomba.
Melbourne should become fine, 13 and 9 degrees,
and 15 and 7 for Adelaide with mostly fine weather.
I don't think there'll be too many of you getting up in time for sunrise,
but in case you're interested, it's at 6.36am.
Sunset tomorrow at 5pm.
Despite the cold weather, enjoy the long weekend while you've got it,
and after this break, we're going back to Brian and Mike.
Good night.
Visitors, visitors!
When people from the big smoke come to our land
We greet them with a smile and a welcoming hand
City and country, what's in a name?
In the eyes of spray-fresh, they're one and the same
Visitors, visitors, scrub till you're sore
Soaking and soaking and scrubbing some more
Just to make sure that none of it's lost
We all got spray-fresh, don't waste a wash
All got spray-fresh, don't waste a wash
Soft hair, clean hair, great to be seen here
Everybody shines with long hair
With protein for normal hair, lemon for oily hair
Enriched with dry hair, seaweed for problem hair
The one that gives you perfect hair
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Your Bulletin's on Saturday and Sunday
will be presented by John Fleming and Karen Berkman.
Mike and I will be back with Seven Eyewitness News and you
on Monday night at 6pm. Good night.
Good night everyone. Enjoy your weekend. God bless.
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