THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on October 1 in the years identified:

1958: Motorists turn out to pay taxes on their vehicles for the first time, under the new system of taxation on the cylinder capacity of cars. The change is smooth at the Kingston Collectorate.

1958: The Master, Abbie Grannum, saddles another post-to-post Derby winner at Knutsford Park, when the versatile chesnut, Creole, sporting the skills of “Miss Raby”, and ridden by Jockey Enos Brown, wins the Classic on a rain soaked track.

1986: Mr Ashton Wright is sworn in as Jamaica’s first Contractor General, by Governor General Sir Florizel Glasspole, at King’s House. (See related photo below)

1987: A J$11 million loan agreement to improve the water supply in eastern St. Thomas and at Tulloch Spring in St Catherine is signed between the National Water Commission (NWC), the Ministry of Mining and the United States Agency for International

Development (USAID). The water schemes to benefit are the east St Thomas water supply and Tulloch Spring. Both will provide a total increased capacity of about 13 million gallons each day and will cover a population of about 14,000. Some twenty districts in the area are to benefit.

1992: The country’ s development is being hampered by an increase in the population which is out of proportion to its social and economic development. This is the observation of Governor General Mr Howard Cooke at the launching ceremony for National Population Month at King’s House. The Governor General states that health care, transportation and other social services cannot adequately support the nation’s needs because of the increase in population.