1974 - 50 Years Ago - May Part 2
May 216—A three-year examination of the Val de La Mare dam has shown expansion and disturbance of the concrete caused by chemical action, but today the Jersey New Waterworks Company issued a. Statement to assure the public that the stability of the dam is entirely satisfactory.
17.-—The proprietor of the former Millionaires Club, Cypriot Mr. Christopher Georgiou, will stay -in the debtors’ prison for a least another six weeks while investigations as to whether he has any assets outside Jersey are made.
18..—Since May 2 when 2,600 letters were sent to states tenants by the Housing Department informing them of a new “ licensing " system for keeping pets, some 210 applications have been received asking for licences.
20.—Thieves who broke into the Colomberie premises of Peter Gould (Chemists) Ltd. last night cleared the dangerous drugs cupboard of its entire stock of more than 11,000 tablets and capsules. This is Jersey’s biggest drugs haul to date. ”
21 . Taxi driver Centenier Robert Eaton has resigned from the St. Helier Honorary Police because he can no longer afford the time off from his job since the new open-rank taxi system came into operation in town.
22.—Miss Jersey Battle of Filowers 1974, is Jersey-born 20 year-old Miss Susan de Gruchy. Her maids of honour are Miss Maria Brookes, and Mrs. Margaret Barnes, the “ Spring Festival Princess”
23.—States Greffier Mr. Edward Potter is to be the secretary of a delegation of the UK branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association which will visit Canada from Sunday at the invitation of the Canadian branch of the association.
24.—Although this year’s potato exports are so far almost 17 per cent up on last year’s, farmers are crying out for rain to swell the crop. Mr. Stan Morel, the chairman of the JFU potato committee, forecast that between one and two inches of rain was required fairly soon in order to give a heavier crop.
25. The top floor of the General Hospital’s private wing is to be opened up to take private patients due to pressure for beds not until 1976. The Public Health Committee hope to do this on January 1. 1976, but the move is dependent upon the completion of new staffing accommodation in Savile Street.
28—The Fort Regent Development Committee's plans for the Fort were given full approval by the States late today after the amendment put forward by the Finance and Economics Committee—to do no work on the rotunda for the time being—had been defeated by 32 votes to nine.
29.—Jersey’s two major tourist attractions—Mont Orgueil Castle and Elizabeth Castle—have once again reported record attendances for the first six weeks of the season.
30.—Hotel charges in Jersey could go up by at least 25 per cent next year. And there could be two increases, one to cover the period from January 1 to June 30 and the second: to come from July 1 onwards.
31. Baroness Seear of Paddington, who before being made a life peeress in 1971, was known as Miss Beatrice Nancy Seear, and who is an economist and expert in personal management is in the Island looking at the job evaluation scheme which has been an integral part of the Jersey Civil Service for the past six years.
May 216—A three-year examination of the Val de La Mare dam has shown expansion and disturbance of the concrete caused by chemical action, but today the Jersey New Waterworks Company issued a. Statement to assure the public that the stability of the dam is entirely satisfactory.
17.-—The proprietor of the former Millionaires Club, Cypriot Mr. Christopher Georgiou, will stay -in the debtors’ prison for a least another six weeks while investigations as to whether he has any assets outside Jersey are made.
18..—Since May 2 when 2,600 letters were sent to states tenants by the Housing Department informing them of a new “ licensing " system for keeping pets, some 210 applications have been received asking for licences.
20.—Thieves who broke into the Colomberie premises of Peter Gould (Chemists) Ltd. last night cleared the dangerous drugs cupboard of its entire stock of more than 11,000 tablets and capsules. This is Jersey’s biggest drugs haul to date. ”
21 . Taxi driver Centenier Robert Eaton has resigned from the St. Helier Honorary Police because he can no longer afford the time off from his job since the new open-rank taxi system came into operation in town.
22.—Miss Jersey Battle of Filowers 1974, is Jersey-born 20 year-old Miss Susan de Gruchy. Her maids of honour are Miss Maria Brookes, and Mrs. Margaret Barnes, the “ Spring Festival Princess”
23.—States Greffier Mr. Edward Potter is to be the secretary of a delegation of the UK branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association which will visit Canada from Sunday at the invitation of the Canadian branch of the association.
24.—Although this year’s potato exports are so far almost 17 per cent up on last year’s, farmers are crying out for rain to swell the crop. Mr. Stan Morel, the chairman of the JFU potato committee, forecast that between one and two inches of rain was required fairly soon in order to give a heavier crop.
25. The top floor of the General Hospital’s private wing is to be opened up to take private patients due to pressure for beds not until 1976. The Public Health Committee hope to do this on January 1. 1976, but the move is dependent upon the completion of new staffing accommodation in Savile Street.
28—The Fort Regent Development Committee's plans for the Fort were given full approval by the States late today after the amendment put forward by the Finance and Economics Committee—to do no work on the rotunda for the time being—had been defeated by 32 votes to nine.
29.—Jersey’s two major tourist attractions—Mont Orgueil Castle and Elizabeth Castle—have once again reported record attendances for the first six weeks of the season.
30.—Hotel charges in Jersey could go up by at least 25 per cent next year. And there could be two increases, one to cover the period from January 1 to June 30 and the second: to come from July 1 onwards.
31. Baroness Seear of Paddington, who before being made a life peeress in 1971, was known as Miss Beatrice Nancy Seear, and who is an economist and expert in personal management is in the Island looking at the job evaluation scheme which has been an integral part of the Jersey Civil Service for the past six years.
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