1986 - 40 years ago - March - Part 2
March 17-23
DISCLOSURES about profits made by local oil companies lead the president of the Jersey Farmers Union to ask Agriculture and Fisheries president Senator Pierre Horsfall to take the matter up in the States and head an inquiry into the issue.
A 19-year-old unemployed Jerseyman, Steve Shane Mesney, pleads guilty in the Police Court to grave and criminal assault. The Court hears that 27-year-old Alan McCormick required 50 stitches after being found lying bleeding in Chapel Lane after an attack by Mesney.
Jersey historian Mrs Joan Stevens dies aged 75.
The States pass the controversial Queen's Valley Reservoir Law after thrashing out the amendments but opponents of the flooding plans say that they have not given up the fig ht.
Mrs Helen Baker, a founder of the Save Our Valleys group, says that the anti-flooders may petition the Queen.
Automaten Gaudin, the Five Oaks catering and refrigeration equipment company, closes with the loss of 11 jobs and is declared en desastre in the Royal Court.
The former offices of the Jersey New Waterworks Company in Mulcaster Street are bought by the Banco de Bilbao for £1 million.
The Police Court hears that doctors have no legal right to special parking places when a practitioner, Dr James Hugh, appears to answer more than 30 parking charges.
The 100-year-old iron railings at the central Market are to be surveyed by a specialist structural engineer after it is discovered they are rusting badly.
March 24-30
THE Island celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of its greatest artist of modern times, Edmund Blampied. Tributes are paid to the way in which he so faithfully recorded the essential nature of Jersey and its inhabitants.
The arrest of a further 13 people on suspicion of drunken driving brings the total of arrests for the offence to 104 for the first three months of 1986.
Figures published by the Social Security Committee show that the 'flu epidemic of February and March broke all records. Between 17 February and 14 March, 5,896 medical certificates were issued.
Mr Robin Seymour, chairman of the Island's largest hotel group, warns that Jersey stands to lose its tourism market if hotels up-grade and increase their prices too rapidly.
Finance and economics Committee president Senator Reg Jeune says he is horrified by a suggestion from the Civil Aviation Authority that Jersey could lose its Heathrow connection.
The Jersey Gas Company's annual report for 1985 is published and reveals that there are plans for a move from the existing Bath Street building to Tunnel Street. The report also reveals a profit after tax in 1985 of over £172 million.
Speaking at an Institute of Bankers dinner, the principal of Highlands College, Mr Wally Clarke, attacks the poor training record of the local finance industry.
DISCLOSURES about profits made by local oil companies lead the president of the Jersey Farmers Union to ask Agriculture and Fisheries president Senator Pierre Horsfall to take the matter up in the States and head an inquiry into the issue.
A 19-year-old unemployed Jerseyman, Steve Shane Mesney, pleads guilty in the Police Court to grave and criminal assault. The Court hears that 27-year-old Alan McCormick required 50 stitches after being found lying bleeding in Chapel Lane after an attack by Mesney.
Jersey historian Mrs Joan Stevens dies aged 75.
The States pass the controversial Queen's Valley Reservoir Law after thrashing out the amendments but opponents of the flooding plans say that they have not given up the fig ht.
Mrs Helen Baker, a founder of the Save Our Valleys group, says that the anti-flooders may petition the Queen.
Automaten Gaudin, the Five Oaks catering and refrigeration equipment company, closes with the loss of 11 jobs and is declared en desastre in the Royal Court.
The former offices of the Jersey New Waterworks Company in Mulcaster Street are bought by the Banco de Bilbao for £1 million.
The Police Court hears that doctors have no legal right to special parking places when a practitioner, Dr James Hugh, appears to answer more than 30 parking charges.
The 100-year-old iron railings at the central Market are to be surveyed by a specialist structural engineer after it is discovered they are rusting badly.
March 24-30
THE Island celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of its greatest artist of modern times, Edmund Blampied. Tributes are paid to the way in which he so faithfully recorded the essential nature of Jersey and its inhabitants.
The arrest of a further 13 people on suspicion of drunken driving brings the total of arrests for the offence to 104 for the first three months of 1986.
Figures published by the Social Security Committee show that the 'flu epidemic of February and March broke all records. Between 17 February and 14 March, 5,896 medical certificates were issued.
Mr Robin Seymour, chairman of the Island's largest hotel group, warns that Jersey stands to lose its tourism market if hotels up-grade and increase their prices too rapidly.
Finance and economics Committee president Senator Reg Jeune says he is horrified by a suggestion from the Civil Aviation Authority that Jersey could lose its Heathrow connection.
The Jersey Gas Company's annual report for 1985 is published and reveals that there are plans for a move from the existing Bath Street building to Tunnel Street. The report also reveals a profit after tax in 1985 of over £172 million.
Speaking at an Institute of Bankers dinner, the principal of Highlands College, Mr Wally Clarke, attacks the poor training record of the local finance industry.
Elizabeth Castle opens its gates to the public for the first time since a £120,000 facelift designed to make the fortification more easily understood by visitors.
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