From Our Files: Delayed win celebrations...brothers up in arms...death and taxes
50 YEARS AGO
BECAUSE his television set had broken down Jim Wakem of Stanpit, Christchurch, didn’t realise he had the magic figure of 20 and a half points on his football coupon.
So it wasn’t until he met his mates at work on Monday morning that 59-year-old Jim realised he had a big win.
This week he picked up a cheque for £29,208.05 from Vernons to be shared between 14 workmates at Sandersons International, the wallpaper firm.
Said Jim: “My television set had broken down so I missed the football results and ended up going to the pub for the evening instead.
“I couldn’t believe it when I heard, it’s fantastic news.”
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“WE have seldom listened to a case and wasted so much time when the outcome was so obvious,” a defendant was told by the presiding magistrate at Christchurch Magistrates Court.
Before the court were two men who were charged with taking a Morris car without consent. The two men had been drinking and decided to take it because they needed to get to the labour exchange the following morning.
One of the men admitted the offence and gave evidence against the other who denied taking the car.
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HUNGRY heifers are getting into gardens around Lyndhurst breaking down fences and hedges, the parish council heard this week.
There had been numerous complaints from villagers with one councillor saying he had “never known people so angry”.
“I have lived in Emery Down for 24 years and cattle are breaking into places where they have never been before.”
25 YEARS AGO
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New Forest District Council have left three young boys in tears after telling them to pull down their tree house. The Hiscock brothers of Everton Road, Hordle, have been building the much-loved play house since July last year in their parents’ oak tree working on it at weekends and after school.
But the council have told David, 12, Jamie, 10, and Rhys, 8, to get rid of their nest.
A planning officer told them that the tree house had been constructed without planning permission and had to come down by April, They were told they could apply for retrospective permission which would cost £95.
The boys’ mother Jan said: “I can’t believe the council drive round looking at tree houses! It is very disappointing it is every kid’s dream to have a tree house.”
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THREE police dogs, one brought in from Essex, failed to track down a missing pensioner at Milford-on-Sea but he was found by a villager with her mongrel dog the following morning.
Some two dozen police from throughout the New Forest were drafted in to look for the 77-year-old resident at Hordle Cliff House on the clifftop.
The search ended on Sunday morning when the man was found in a confused state in thick undergrowth in Milford’s Pleasure Gardens.
He was sniffed out by Bonnie, an 18-month-old mongrel taking her daily walk with owner Doreen Clayton.
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THE worries of local residents about noise from young children have been shared by New Forest planning councillors who have turned down a proposal for the change of use of a house in Hobart Road, New Milton, to a children’s day nursery.
One resident said he would rather take the chance of having “noisy neighbours” moving into a house instead of a nursery.
Another said that “having retired I’d like to sit down in my garden during the week and have a nice beer or two. I am concerned about the disruption”.
Councillor Kevin Ault agreed, saying the noise levels would be “totally unacceptable”.
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“EXTORTIONATE” and “stealth tax” were some of the comments of funeral directors made to the A&T regarding the NFDC’s whopping increases for people wishing to book burial plots in advance.
For those wishing to secure exclusive rights of interment burial in the district council’s cemeteries, the rates goes up from £119 to £200, plus £223 to dig the single grave.
To bury cremated remains the fee goes up from £45 to £100, plus £100 to dig the plot.
A shortage of burial spaces has been partly blamed for the increases.
