Looking back on South Coast history: October 11 to 13
Building plans were in the news and the Prime Minister enjoyed a game of golf.
COMPLAINTS, complaints and more complaints.
October 11
1935
“WHO is responsible for the disgusting state of the ladies’ lavatory at the Port Shepstone railway station? The public health authorities would not tolerate this condition of affairs from any other body.”
“WHO is responsible for the badly neglected state of the Port Shepstone cemetery?”
AND, while we’re at it… “Why should it be necessary for a visitor, visiting the hospital during advertised visiting hours, to have to ring the bell five times and still get no response?”
1974
“PLANS for a proposed Red Cross centre to be built in Port Shepstone were revealed today. Ground has already been obtained between the national road and Ridge Road, approximately opposite Port Shepstone High School.”
AND there was more building going on. “A gigantic, stork-like crane has been erected on the site of the new Port Shepstone hospital to assist in the construction of the multi-storey building.”
1985
SOME of the plans never came to fruition. “The Port Shepstone Town Council supports the concept of a marina-type development on the Bhobhoyi estuary.”
October 12
1951
“BY unanimous vote of the eight men on the council, Mrs Faith S Ainslie, the only woman councillor, has been elected Mayor of Port Shepstone for the ensuing year.”
1951
BITS of history sometimes found their way into the newspaper. “St Helen’s Rock, on the Mzimkhulu near Port Shepstone, is named after Helen Crutchfield, daughter of a member of a notorious gang of gun-runners in the 1830s. From this rock Helen signalled the movements of the police to other members of the gang.”
1984
AN ongoing zoning dispute reached an abrupt end. “The controversial Margate Brick and Paver development has been placed in provisional liquidation.”
October 13
1961
“COFFEE, a very high value crop with yields of 800lb per acre or more, could prove much more remunerative than sugar cane, even at cane’s optimum profitability. Thus Mr J Wilson, director of the SA Sugar Association Experimental Station reported recently.”
1967
“VISITORS to Port Shepstone on Monday were the prime minister, John Vorster, who, with three friends who accompanied him, played golf at the Port Shepstone Country Club.”
1967
A NEW boathouse was opened on the Mzimkhulu.
1978
“PART of the San Lameer fence on the beach between Trafalgar and Marina is to be moved to a less conspicuous position.”
1989
THE Uvongo council was campaigning for the Lower South Coast to be declared a sea outfall free zone.
AND it was announced that there has been a big increase in airport landings.
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