1974 - 50 Years Ago - June Part 1
1. An associated company of Slater, Walker (Jersey) Ltd., Saiga Holdings Ltd., who last year acquired the former Frederick Baker and G. D. Laurens properties in Queen Street, have now purchased an Smam adjoining property in Hilgrove Street, formerly known as Librairie Francais, which has been vacant since January of this year. The property has been acquired to facilitate the work to be carried out on the adjoining properties.
2.—-A pedestrian, thought. to be M. Norbert Souliman, a 41-year-old farm worker from France, was knocked down. by a car on the Faldouet Main Road shortly after 11.15 pm. and died soon afterwards. .
3.——Publicans in the west of the Island. facing a, resurgence of violence and vandalism by weekend- gangs of young people, have met the Island’s Constables and called for harsher Police Court penalties for offenders including the deportation of non-residents.
4.-—A small syndicate from a St. Helier pub won the top prize of £4,000 in the Guernsey Lottery. They did not wish their names, or that of the pub, to be disclosed.
5.-—The Island’s already critical water shortage is being aggravated by wastage by irresponsible consumers. This is the view of Mr. Rodney Clarke, engineer/manager of the New Waterworks Company, who called on the people of Jersey to cut down on their demands on the Island’s dwindling resources.
6.—The organizers or the Battle of Flowers are loo-king for volunteers to work for nothing on the afternoon of the Battle on August 1. They are allso still looking for suitable places to build floats. Some Jersey housewives this morning received their milk in a. new type of Tetrapak.
7.—St. Heller’s new Centenier is Mr. John Philip de Carteret formerly a Constables Officer. He was elected unopposed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Centenier Bob Eaton.
8.—Withn 48 hours of a small classified advertisement appearing in the “ Jersey Evening Post ” Property Guide, 143 people wrote to the advertiser through a box number. A further batch of letters
arrived in this morning’s mail. The advertised item?—A bungalow on the outskirt or St. Helier—The price—£12,000, States loan available.
1. An associated company of Slater, Walker (Jersey) Ltd., Saiga Holdings Ltd., who last year acquired the former Frederick Baker and G. D. Laurens properties in Queen Street, have now purchased an Smam adjoining property in Hilgrove Street, formerly known as Librairie Francais, which has been vacant since January of this year. The property has been acquired to facilitate the work to be carried out on the adjoining properties.
2.—-A pedestrian, thought. to be M. Norbert Souliman, a 41-year-old farm worker from France, was knocked down. by a car on the Faldouet Main Road shortly after 11.15 pm. and died soon afterwards. .
3.——Publicans in the west of the Island. facing a, resurgence of violence and vandalism by weekend- gangs of young people, have met the Island’s Constables and called for harsher Police Court penalties for offenders including the deportation of non-residents.
4.-—A small syndicate from a St. Helier pub won the top prize of £4,000 in the Guernsey Lottery. They did not wish their names, or that of the pub, to be disclosed.
5.-—The Island’s already critical water shortage is being aggravated by wastage by irresponsible consumers. This is the view of Mr. Rodney Clarke, engineer/manager of the New Waterworks Company, who called on the people of Jersey to cut down on their demands on the Island’s dwindling resources.
6.—The organizers or the Battle of Flowers are loo-king for volunteers to work for nothing on the afternoon of the Battle on August 1. They are allso still looking for suitable places to build floats. Some Jersey housewives this morning received their milk in a. new type of Tetrapak.
7.—St. Heller’s new Centenier is Mr. John Philip de Carteret formerly a Constables Officer. He was elected unopposed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Centenier Bob Eaton.
8.—Withn 48 hours of a small classified advertisement appearing in the “ Jersey Evening Post ” Property Guide, 143 people wrote to the advertiser through a box number. A further batch of letters
arrived in this morning’s mail. The advertised item?—A bungalow on the outskirt or St. Helier—The price—£12,000, States loan available.
10.--An Islandwide search has been going on since early yesterday for Michael Patrick Murphy, a 24-4year old prisoner on remand who escaped from HM Prison in Newgate Street by digging a. hole in the outside wall of his cell. He then got away from the jail by dropping about 18 ft. from a wall; He was being held awaiting trial at the Assizes on a charge of attempted rape.
11.——The 24 year old prisoner who dug his way out of his cell in HM Prison in Newgate Street and escaped from there in the early hours of Sunday morning, is still at large, and the assistance of the general public is urgently needed for his recapture, police say. Shortly after 9 p.m. Murphy made an emergency “999” call to Police HQ from a telephone kiosk in the Parade. A police car was sent from HQ and Murphy was sitting on a bench near the phone box.
12.-—Members of the Committee of Agriculture and senior officials of the Department of Agriculture are at present making a three-day visit to United Kingdom potato markerts. The six-man delegation is accompanied by Mr. Roy Mourant, chairman of the Jersey Agricultural Marketing Federation.
13—Jersey's Hospital Administrator Mr. Oscar Mourant, retires on November 30 and is to be succeeded by Mr. Peter Lambert, a senior administrative assistant with the States Education Department since 1970.
14.—The Public Works announced that New Street between Union Street and King Street will become one-way from Monday. This follows the establishment of the King Street precinct on a 24 hour basis, and the consequent virtual absence of any north-bound traffic along this section of New Street
15.--Several people from Jersey are included in the List of the Queen’s Birthday Honours published this morning. Mr. Charles M. Le Quesne, CMG, British High Commissioner in Nigeria, whose home is at Beau Desert, St. Saviour, is promoted to Knight; of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (KJGMG); Mr. J. H, (Jack) Herbert, Bronson Villa. Rue des Landes, St. Peter, is made an MBE; Miss Joyce E. Luce a Superintending Sister in Queen Alexandria’s Royal Naval Nursing Service, is made an Associate (2nd Class) of the Royal Red Gross; Mr. F. D. Hughes, of La Villaize, St. Ouen. becomes CBE and Capt. John Tessler-Yandell, son of Mr. F. C. Yandll, OBE.
11.——The 24 year old prisoner who dug his way out of his cell in HM Prison in Newgate Street and escaped from there in the early hours of Sunday morning, is still at large, and the assistance of the general public is urgently needed for his recapture, police say. Shortly after 9 p.m. Murphy made an emergency “999” call to Police HQ from a telephone kiosk in the Parade. A police car was sent from HQ and Murphy was sitting on a bench near the phone box.
12.-—Members of the Committee of Agriculture and senior officials of the Department of Agriculture are at present making a three-day visit to United Kingdom potato markerts. The six-man delegation is accompanied by Mr. Roy Mourant, chairman of the Jersey Agricultural Marketing Federation.
13—Jersey's Hospital Administrator Mr. Oscar Mourant, retires on November 30 and is to be succeeded by Mr. Peter Lambert, a senior administrative assistant with the States Education Department since 1970.
14.—The Public Works announced that New Street between Union Street and King Street will become one-way from Monday. This follows the establishment of the King Street precinct on a 24 hour basis, and the consequent virtual absence of any north-bound traffic along this section of New Street
15.--Several people from Jersey are included in the List of the Queen’s Birthday Honours published this morning. Mr. Charles M. Le Quesne, CMG, British High Commissioner in Nigeria, whose home is at Beau Desert, St. Saviour, is promoted to Knight; of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (KJGMG); Mr. J. H, (Jack) Herbert, Bronson Villa. Rue des Landes, St. Peter, is made an MBE; Miss Joyce E. Luce a Superintending Sister in Queen Alexandria’s Royal Naval Nursing Service, is made an Associate (2nd Class) of the Royal Red Gross; Mr. F. D. Hughes, of La Villaize, St. Ouen. becomes CBE and Capt. John Tessler-Yandell, son of Mr. F. C. Yandll, OBE.
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