Remember A Day | Portuguese rain insurance, heroin hidden among frozen prawns, and a bank teller’s nightmare: headlines from four decades ago
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A journey back through time to look at significant news and events reported by the South China Morning Post from this week in history
A journey back through time to look at significant news and events reported by the South China Morning Post from this week in history
A Portuguese hotel chain compensating guests for rainy weather, and a convicted murderer being set free due to a gender imbalance in the jury made the headlines four decades ago this week.
January 7, 1979
● A publisher who helped found the Hong Kong edition of Tatler magazine faced charges of fraud and conspiracy in Nottingham, in Britain. William Guy Alexander Wayte, 71, and three others were accused of conspiring to defraud companies and individuals by publishing false and inflated circulation figures for the Nottingham Observer and The Tatler and Bystander magazines. Wayte suffered a heart attack during the committal proceedings and further sittings were temporarily suspended.
January 8, 1979
● More than 2,000 employees of 30 factories in the Connaught Road West factory building would face a bleak Lunar New Year if the Public Works Department did not lift a closure order. The 20-storey building was on fire for more than two days a week before, resulting in the issuing of said order.