From our Files: Young thief keeps job...parking penalties...stand against Euro
75 YEARS AGO
STEPS are being taken to oppose a Bill being introduced by the Minister of Agriculture to amend the New Forest Act of 1877 as it is considered that the Minister’s proposals will seriously interfere with the rights of the Commoners and the public.
At a meeting in Brockenhurst it was decided to form a committee to be called the New Forest Protection Committee to fight the Bill when it comes up to Parliament.
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A LAD of 15 pleaded guilty to stealing two typewriters, a pillow case, a telescope, a pair of binoculars, a calendar stand, a cigarette tray and stuffed bird together valued at £4.10s the property of his employers.
PC Clifford explained at Lymington magistrates court that he had found an old typewriter behind the water meter standard in Woodside Gardens.
The lad told him he took it to write a story. He had wanted to “borrow” the other items but had been too “afraid to ask for them.”
He was bound over under supervision for two years. The court heard his employers had let him keep his job.
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BROCKENHURST parish council has passed the resolution: “That the parish council having examined Lymington Borough’s submissions to the Boundary Commission can find not one word in practical support of its proposition to incorporate the village of Brockenhurst together with part of the township of Rhinefield.
“The parish council submits that its area is essentially rural in character and as such should continue to be administered as part of a rural district rather than be transferred to an authority which is dealing with urban problems.”
50 YEARS AGO
A MONTH after parking was banned in Lymington High Street between 8am-6pm when the Saturday market is in place is still causing problems, police say.
They gave motorists a month’s grace in which to get used to the new rule but police say drivers are “not getting the message at all” and are still parking in the road on market day.
From today onwards illegal parkers will get a £2 fixed penalty fine on their windscreens.
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COLONEL Frederick Betts of Stocks Cottage, Burley, has died suddenly at the age of 66. During WWII he was seconded to the ‘V’ force on the Burma Front from 1942 to 1945.
It consisted mainly of wild mountain tribesmen who were often working behind enemy lines.
In March 1944 Col Betts returned from a patrol to find the force’s camp overrun by Japanese soldiers.
For three weeks he struggled the 200 miles to Kohima in India, surviving on tree bark, leaves and water.
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ROBERT ADLEY, prospective Conservative candidate for Christchurch and Lymington has written to the Under Secretary of State for the Department of the Environment on the subject of sea pollution and cholera.
Mr Adley says: “There is little doubt that the sewage outfall at Pennington, Lymington, has caused and continues to cause very considerable alarm to people concerned about the Solent.
“This has hardly been allayed by the cholera epidemic in Italy where sea food contaminated with human excreta is reported as the cause of the epidemic.”
25 YEARS AGO
Children from New Milton Junior School volunteered their time after school to collect seeds for their ‘Trees for their Millennium project.
Organised by a teacher it will see the school grow healthy trees for the millennium by gathering seeds from trees that are special and important to their local area.
The children including Edward Fleming (10) Georgina Hiller (7) and Sian Garton (7) were helped by teachers Mrs Everitt and Mrs James and by Mrs Greta Nabney of New Milton Horticultural Society.
The seeds were collected from trees in the rectory garden of St Mary Magdalene church, New Milton.
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EURO-SCEPTIC New Forest East MP Julian Lewis made sure he got his point across at the conservative party conference.
Dr Lewis and fellow MP John Bercow distributed badges in the shape of the pound sign amongst the representatives to show their stance against the euro becoming the currency in Britain.
The badges cost £250 altogether and the MPs paid for them themselves.
The MPs also gave out a leaflet showing that results of a poll showed 56% of people do not agree with abolishing the pound.
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A FIRE engine on its way to an overturned car in Matchams Lane, Hurn, crashed into the garden of a home in Hurn Lane.
The driver lost control at a roundabout and the vehicle left the road crushing some thirty feet of garden wall.
The owner of the house said that he did not even hear the accident and only knew when the fireman came to the door. He accepted their apologies.
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SWAY station has won an award in the ‘Station of the Year’ competition.
It came first in the small stations category of the competition which is organised by ‘RailNews.’
Judges visited more than 400 stations around the country and were particularly impressed by Sway.
They said the success of the station was down to ticket clerk Ian Faletto.
Judges said: “His care to detail is amazing with fresh flowers cut daily and magazines in the waiting room.
The station is generally in an immaculate condition.”
