1986 - 40 years ago - August - Part 1

 1986 - 40 years ago - August - Part 1

August 4-10

A SITE for an 18-hole golf course using land of little agricultural value on both sides of the Prison at La Moye is identified to the Island Development Committee by Advocate Michael Voisin.

The Island's Working Party on Need recommends to the Finance and Economics Committee that non-natives should have to

 

live in Jersey for ten years rather than the present five before they qualify for welfare benefit.

Some 50 people are involved in a brawl after a replayed football semi-final in the Mateus Rosé tournament between Le Masurier's and Modern Hotels. Le Masurier's striker, John Steel, is banned for life from the Mateus tournament because of his involvement in the incident.

There is confusion surrounding the role of Jersey's only deaconess, Mrs June Gurdon. The Dean, the Very Rev. Basil O'Ferrall, and the Rector of St Saviour, the Rev. Jeffrey Hollis, say that Mrs Gurdon is on sick leave but is still licensed to the Parish of St Saviour, but Mrs Gurdon says that this is not so.

Senator John Le Marquand criticises the Housing Committee's policy on housing for the elderly. He says that old people need accommodation units big enough to allow them to entertain friends and family.

Falles Garage applies to the Island Development Committee to use a field and a garden in Plat Douet Road to park cars in spite of a recent statement by IDC president Constable John Le Sueur saying that he is "horrified" by the large area of the Island occupied by hire cars.

August 11-17

TOURISM Committee president Senator John Rothwell says that holidays in Jersey are too expensive. He makes the claim after gathering information from travel agents and tour operators during a two-day whistle-stop tour in and around Manchester.

Battle of Flowers day is another huge success, the weather breaking in time to ensure that the carnival atmosphere of the new-look event is enjoyed by the thousands who line the Victoria Avenue parade circuit. Cab driver Mr Reg Hawkins is commended for hanging on to a drunken driver's hire car to prevent it from leaving the scene of a motoring incident. The hire car was driven by 26-year-old Londoner Kevin William Bagshaw the wrong way up Colomberie and along a pavement before crashing into a telephone kiosk with two people inside. The Guiton Group, which includes the Jersey Evening Post, acquires a share in a UK company which is to launch an English newspaper in Spain.

Mrs Ada Louisa Breen, who says she was still riding a bicycle when she was 87, celebrates her 100th birthday at the Alexandre Home for the Aged.

Jersey Zoo looks for £45,000 to build a new laboratory. The money is needed because the laboratory currently in use — a prefabricated building put up in 1976 — is collapsing.

Residents of Trinity plan to fight a proposal to site the new Animal Shelter at a farm in the parish. They say that incessant noise and disturbance would be brought to a peaceful area.