THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on August 14 in the years identified:

Local Telephone sub1972:scribers

are to face higher charges as of September 1, consequent on an order made by the Public Utility Commission granting average increases of 35% to the Jamaica Telephone Company Limited. The company, in its application to the commission asks for an average overall increase of about 51%. The new approved rates provide for increases in several categories, according to a release issued by the commission. Business rates will go up about 36% on average and residential rates by approximately 14%. Increases averaging 35% is allowed in seven categories of revenue.

1972:water Curbs on the use of

in the Corporate Area is instituted by the Water Commission in an effort to prevent waste and reduce the daily consumption during the present protracted drought. The secretarymanager of the commission, Stanley Parke, says that the daily consumption averaged 36.5 million gallons, “and if we are to maintain uninterrupted supply for any length of time, it is essential that it should

be brought down to 25 million gallons a day”.

1989:Effective immediately, the hunter’s licence fee is increased from $100 to $300, according to a news release from the Natural Resources Conservation Division of the Ministry of Development, Planning and Production. Officers will be registering hunters and issuing licences from 9:00 a.m. to 4 p.m. for the rest of this week, starting Monday, August 14. Officers will be at the following locations: Natural Resources Conservation Division. 531/2 Molynes Road. Kingston; Ministry of Agriculture, Bogue main Road, Montego Bay; South Coast Safari, Black River; and the Forestry Department Northern Division, 1 Red Hassel Road, Port Antonio.