Making the headlines in the A&T 25, 50 and 75 years ago
75 YEARS AGO
THERE was considerable discussion at this week’s meeting of the Borough Council on the question of the sub-letting of beach huts, and a scheme has been drawn up so that the Council can control this matter.
Coun. Captain H. Blackmore, proposed that sub-letting should be stopped altogether. People were paying £10 or £12 for a hut and making £30 on renting it. Many of them took a hut for the sole purpose of sub-letting it in order to make money.
The Borough Treasurer (Mr L. M. Enticott) remarked that he also knew people who had rented huts and had no intention of using them personally.
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MR REGINALD Freeman, a single man, aged about 30 years, who resides with his mother at their holding, Ivy Cottage, Durnstown, Sway, was admitted to Lymington Hospital during the latter part of Wednesday afternoon with head and body injuries as the result of being attacked by a two-year-old Shorthorn bull.
The animal refused to return to its stall after being taken across a field on a rope to drink at a stream and turned on Mr Freeman. A passing motorist dragged the injured man from the field, the bull having left him on the ground.
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EXCLUSIVE gentleman and ladies tailors Peter Conway Ltd have opened a shop in Station Road next to the Gas Company’s showrooms.
It is hoped that this new venture will prove to be one of the first signs of the dawn of post-war prosperity for New Milton which will establish this attractive and progressive town as one of the well-known shopping centres of the South of England.
50 YEARS AGO
THERE was no evidence that sewage discharges into the sea “constituted a significant health risk to bathers”, Mr John Cordle, MP for Bournemouth East and Christchurch, was told by the Under-Secretary for Environment, Mr Eldon Griffiths, in a written reply to a Commons question last week.
Mr Cordle had suggested that annual reports should be made on discharges of sewage to the sea, and Mr Griffiths said he would consider this.
He said 149 sewerage authorities made discharges to the coastal waters of England and Wales, through 333 principal outfalls. Of these, discharges from 123 outfalls receive some form of treatment first.
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BROCKENHURST station is among the nine best kept stations on the list of award winners for 1972 in the S.W. Division of Southern Region, British Rail.
There are 158 stations in the division, and Hounslow won the £50 first prize, for the second year running. Brockenhurst was first in the Southampton area, one of the nine areas in the division, and won a prize of £12.
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INSPECTOR L. G. Smith, of the RSPCA, said in his report to the annual meeting of the New Forest and Borough of Lymington branch of the society, held in the Community Centre at Lymington on May 16th, that the condition of ponies on the New Forest had improved over the past year, and he felt sure the improvement would be maintained.
He paid tribute to the “wonderful job” done by the agisters, who always saw to matters when he contacted them about animals.
25 YEARS AGO
ST ANDREW’S Church at Dibden Purlieu, was the setting for an unexplained happening at a church service on Easter Day.
The Rector, the Rev. John Alderman, told the “A&T” “There was a moment of silence after the reading, and the cross flew off the wall and fell into the group just as we were celebrating that Jesus was alive.”
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VANDALS continue to wreak havoc in Hordle Recreation Ground, it was reported on Thursday in last week’s annual parish assembly at Everton.
John Grey, chairman of the Parish Council’s Amenities Committee, said cricket practice nets, which had cost £7,000, had been ripped apart and cigarettes had been stubbed out on the all-weather mats.
Windows in the pavilion had also recently been smashed and he appealed for the public’s help in identifying the culprits.
And Mr Grey appealed to dog owners using the Rec. to clear up after their pets. It was unacceptable, he said for the football and cricket teams to have to play with the dog mess about.
