From Our Files: Forest Show hailed... cesspool league... deer hunting
75 YEARS AGO
OVER 1,000 people visited the beautiful grounds of Brockenhurst Manor, Brockenhurst, on Saturday afternoon, on the occasion of a very successful rally organised by the local area branches of the Conservative Association.
The rally was addressed by the Member for the Division, Col. O. E. Crosthwaite-Eyre, who said that he did not think there had been a time for a great many years when politics were so important to the average man and woman as they were today, when our future prosperity and the fitness of our way of life had been called into question.
We were living on charity, a loan which, as members of the Government admitted, was evaporating at an alarming rate, and there was no doubt that within a few months this country would be faced with a crisis of the first magnitude.
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THE Silver Lining campaign of the National Savings Movement was given considerable impetus at a meeting at Winchester.
After an appeal for a united effort had been made by the Lord Lieutenant (Lord Mottistone), and arguments advanced on a national plane by Lord Semphill, the meeting unanimously pledged itself to support the campaign and to do everything in its power to ensure its success.
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IT is estimated that nearly 10,000 people attended the New Forest Agricultural show held in glorious weather at Cuffnells, Lyndhurst, on Wednesday, and the arrangements were so excellent that this great multitude ran short neither of drink or food, or even ices!
A remarkable tribute was paid by the chairman of the Kent Agricultural Society, who declared that it was the best one-day farmers’ show he had ever seen.
50 YEARS AGO
THE MP for the New Forest, Mr Patrick McNair-Wilson, together with Mr Robert Adley, prospective Conservative candidate for the new constituency of Christchurch and Lymington, have attacked the Action Committee for the retention of Lymington Borough in Hampshire, accusing them of causing “great unhappiness” by ignoring opposing views from Lymington Town.
The MPs' letter, in which they stated that many in Lymington Town “are only now becoming aware of how you have influenced their future”, was written in reply to one from Mrs Julie Brown, secretary of the Action Committee, in which she said that many considered they had acted as “obsequious yes men” during the House of Commons debate.
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A GERMAN girl walking along Bure Lane, Friars Cliff, was confronted by a man who appeared completely naked from behind bushes.
The girl, on holiday in the area, told police the man disappeared behind the bushes again and reappeared fully clothed and carrying a briefcase.
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BOLDRE remains top of the “cesspool league” according to statistics in the section of cesspool cleansing in the New Forest RDC area, given in the report of the Medical Officer of Health for the RDC, Dr R. J. K. Tallack.
The number of cesspools receiving service during 1971 was 361 at Boldre, 306 at Sway, 238 at Fawley, and in all the total serviced in the RDC area is 2,317.
25 YEARS AGO
HUNDREDS of people packed onto Mudeford Quay on Sunday to enjoy a day of raft races, rescues and raffles as well as boosting funds for the lifeboat station. The weather stayed fine as locals and visitors enjoyed the attraction on Mudeford Lifeboat Fun Day which organisers hope will raise £5,000 towards the £60,000 appeal to extend the lifeboat station on the quay.
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DEER hunting has ended in the New Forest. The 900-year-old tradition of hunting wild fallow buck was brought to a close at a private meeting of New Forest Buckhound members on Sunday.
Whilst the success of the anti-hunting Private Member’s Bill looks ever more precarious, the Buckhounds have decided that the Forest has ceased to provide a suitable environment for them.
Joint master Christine Compton told the A&T at the New Forest Show on Wednesday that it had been an “emotional decision” which she stressed had nothing to do with current moves to introduce anti-hunt legislation.
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A LOCAL mother and son are anxious to inform A&T readers of the best way to treat the sting of weaver fish.
A 21-year-old man was left in agony when inadvertently treading on one of these fish after swimming off Hordle Cliffs on Monday. His mother suffered the same experience last year.
“You’re left in terrible pain and swelling, 10 times worse than bee stings,” she said. Her son was rushed to the Milford clinic where the advice was to bathe the foot or toe in the hottest water bearable. It soon brought relief.
