THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on March 4 in the years identified:

1953.Finance The Standing Committee of the House of Representatives, under the chairmanship of Minister for Social Welfare Donald Sangster, approves the adjustments in the salary scale for medical doctors.

1967: Miss Mona 1966 Donna Lewis leaves Jamaica for Toronto on a prize trip. She is accompanied by her parents, Mr and Mrs Ramsay Lewis.

1970: Prime Minister Hugh Shearer announces that a Jamaican company for marketing bananas and other agricultural products has been established in the United Kingdom. The prime minister’s announcement is made during an address in honour of Farmer’s Year and the 75th anniversary of the Jamaica Agricultural Society.

1970: The newly constructed threequarter-mile road from Braeton to Fort Clarence in the Hellshire Hills is officially opened. The road, which took eight months to build, constitutes the first leg of the main access highway into the Hellshire Hill development area and forms an integral part of a comprehensive road network planned to embrace the Kingston, Spanish Town, Old Harbour and May Pen regions.

1980: The Corporate Area suffers one of its thirstiest days when a strike for pay increase by Water Commission non-supervisory workers knocks out the major water system.

1982: Miss World 1981 Pilin Leon arrives in Jamaica to take part in the Miss World Fashion Show, organised by Spartan Health Club.