1974 - 50 Years Ago - August 2024 Part 2
17.—Lucky winner! A man who walked into B. J. O’Connor’s Hilgrove Street office to claim a £12 prize in last Thursday’s lottery walked out again ten minutes later still hardly believing that he had won the £12000 jackpot. The man, a Portuguese hotel worker from Madeira, is under-stood to be in his late twenties. and married with one son.
19.—A 20-year-old pedestrian, James Joseph Cowie, died in the General Hospital in the earlry hours of this morning after being struck by a van on the Five Mile Road at about 11.30 last night. His 17-year-old girl-friend, also hit by the van,‘ is detained with bruising to her body. This was the second road death of the year.
20.—Two young people lost their lives when the car in which they were driving along St. Catherine’s Road went over the side of the cliff and plunged about 80 ft. into the sea. Centenier J. D. Germain, of St. Martin, assumed charge or the investigations with P.C. H. Hougue.
21.—Passenger arrivals for last month were down by nearly 7,000 on the figure for July last year. In the, Economic Adviser’s office comments on the statistics they point out that there were five Sundays in July, 1973, but only four this year.
22..—The strike at La. Collette land reclamation site was made official, and it is probable that the men will be paid for the time they have been out. A meeting of the two sides has been arranged for tomorrow and Mr. E. G. Allen, the regional secretary of the TGWU. has been invited to attend.
23.—The Constable of St. Brelade, Mr, Max de la Haye has hit out at the detrimental effect camp sites have on the Island, and called for a limit on numbers as they are now. .
24.—The. Post Office in. Broad Street is running a very successful bureau de change. It opened on June 17, since when there have been over 3,000 customers.
27 .—The teenage couple whose bodies were found in a car at the foot of a cliff opposite La Crete Quarry, Archirondel, last Wednesday morning, were drowned after the car was driven at a fast speed. Round the: bend and plunged on to the rocks below, an inquest jury decided.
28.—The go-ahead for a resumption of air services between Shoreham and the Channel Islands has. been given by the Civil Aviation Authority.
29.—-Family chemist Mr. Charles Mark Stone retires at the end of this week after 40 years in the pharmaceutical industry. His business premises is to be sold to a local resident.
30.--It was revealed at a Press conference that the Committee of Agriculture are using emergency powers to cope with the outbreak or! Dutch Elm disease.
17.—Lucky winner! A man who walked into B. J. O’Connor’s Hilgrove Street office to claim a £12 prize in last Thursday’s lottery walked out again ten minutes later still hardly believing that he had won the £12000 jackpot. The man, a Portuguese hotel worker from Madeira, is under-stood to be in his late twenties. and married with one son.
19.—A 20-year-old pedestrian, James Joseph Cowie, died in the General Hospital in the earlry hours of this morning after being struck by a van on the Five Mile Road at about 11.30 last night. His 17-year-old girl-friend, also hit by the van,‘ is detained with bruising to her body. This was the second road death of the year.
20.—Two young people lost their lives when the car in which they were driving along St. Catherine’s Road went over the side of the cliff and plunged about 80 ft. into the sea. Centenier J. D. Germain, of St. Martin, assumed charge or the investigations with P.C. H. Hougue.
21.—Passenger arrivals for last month were down by nearly 7,000 on the figure for July last year. In the, Economic Adviser’s office comments on the statistics they point out that there were five Sundays in July, 1973, but only four this year.
22..—The strike at La. Collette land reclamation site was made official, and it is probable that the men will be paid for the time they have been out. A meeting of the two sides has been arranged for tomorrow and Mr. E. G. Allen, the regional secretary of the TGWU. has been invited to attend.
23.—The Constable of St. Brelade, Mr, Max de la Haye has hit out at the detrimental effect camp sites have on the Island, and called for a limit on numbers as they are now. .
24.—The. Post Office in. Broad Street is running a very successful bureau de change. It opened on June 17, since when there have been over 3,000 customers.
27 .—The teenage couple whose bodies were found in a car at the foot of a cliff opposite La Crete Quarry, Archirondel, last Wednesday morning, were drowned after the car was driven at a fast speed. Round the: bend and plunged on to the rocks below, an inquest jury decided.
28.—The go-ahead for a resumption of air services between Shoreham and the Channel Islands has. been given by the Civil Aviation Authority.
29.—-Family chemist Mr. Charles Mark Stone retires at the end of this week after 40 years in the pharmaceutical industry. His business premises is to be sold to a local resident.
30.--It was revealed at a Press conference that the Committee of Agriculture are using emergency powers to cope with the outbreak or! Dutch Elm disease.
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