1974 - 50 Years Ago - November Part 1
1 .Jersey resident Mr. Alan Harris announced his engagement to one of Britain’s top female tennis players, Miss Veronica Burton. Martyr mum Mrs. Michelle Perrée, the woman who refused to pay £6 in fines as a protest against “inadequate parking facilities” in the town began her mum-day jail sentence.
2.—-.-Last month 39 motorists were convicted at the Police Court for drunken driving; bringing the total for the first ten months of this year to 312, which was 42 more than in the same period last year.
4.-—It was announced that a pint of milk would go up from 8 ½ ip to 10p on December 1.
7.—The “ Jersey Evening Post’s ”' Hostess Seminar was held at the Hotel 'de France and over 600 women attended this very successful function. Guest speakers were Katie Boyle, flower display expert Julia Clements, and wonder-cook Marguerite Patten.
8.—Further damage to the reclamation site by last month’s stormy weather has forced the Dutch contractors, Ballast Nedam, to stop work on extending the outer arm or: the breakwater. Instead they will spend the winter trying .to catch up with the toe-wall and concrete cobs to give better protection to the new wall.
10 -A 606-lb. German anti-Shipping mine was safely blown up after a 40-hour drama. A giant crane, scooping the sea-bed at the La. Collette land reclamation site, had brought ashore the canister at 8.30 on Friday night.
12.—It was announced that the Establishment Committee, in conjunction with the States Postal Committee, had appointed Miss P. A. Egan to the post of Controller of Mails.
13.—Jersey's hoteliers and guest house keepers are now looking back on a season in which business turnover reached new records but high overheads cut into profits. But although unforeseen .price rises could not be offset by-raising charges mid-season,, profits have still been made, and there is no indication of • financial disasters within the hotel industry. • "
14.—Jersey's mail is to go 'metric' from September next year. The changeover will coincide with the UK Post Office's switch to grams, kilograms, millimetres and metres..
15:—The Jersey Licensed Victuallers Association are, putting 1p on tots of spirits and aperitifs, and 2p on soft drinks. The price increases are blamed on escalating costs in running a pub.
1 .Jersey resident Mr. Alan Harris announced his engagement to one of Britain’s top female tennis players, Miss Veronica Burton. Martyr mum Mrs. Michelle Perrée, the woman who refused to pay £6 in fines as a protest against “inadequate parking facilities” in the town began her mum-day jail sentence.
2.—-.-Last month 39 motorists were convicted at the Police Court for drunken driving; bringing the total for the first ten months of this year to 312, which was 42 more than in the same period last year.
4.-—It was announced that a pint of milk would go up from 8 ½ ip to 10p on December 1.
7.—The “ Jersey Evening Post’s ”' Hostess Seminar was held at the Hotel 'de France and over 600 women attended this very successful function. Guest speakers were Katie Boyle, flower display expert Julia Clements, and wonder-cook Marguerite Patten.
8.—Further damage to the reclamation site by last month’s stormy weather has forced the Dutch contractors, Ballast Nedam, to stop work on extending the outer arm or: the breakwater. Instead they will spend the winter trying .to catch up with the toe-wall and concrete cobs to give better protection to the new wall.
10 -A 606-lb. German anti-Shipping mine was safely blown up after a 40-hour drama. A giant crane, scooping the sea-bed at the La. Collette land reclamation site, had brought ashore the canister at 8.30 on Friday night.
12.—It was announced that the Establishment Committee, in conjunction with the States Postal Committee, had appointed Miss P. A. Egan to the post of Controller of Mails.
13.—Jersey's hoteliers and guest house keepers are now looking back on a season in which business turnover reached new records but high overheads cut into profits. But although unforeseen .price rises could not be offset by-raising charges mid-season,, profits have still been made, and there is no indication of • financial disasters within the hotel industry. • "
14.—Jersey's mail is to go 'metric' from September next year. The changeover will coincide with the UK Post Office's switch to grams, kilograms, millimetres and metres..
15:—The Jersey Licensed Victuallers Association are, putting 1p on tots of spirits and aperitifs, and 2p on soft drinks. The price increases are blamed on escalating costs in running a pub.
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