THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: From the News Letter of December 1890

Meeting of Institute of Journalists held in Belfast
A milkman who rescued a crash victim trapped for several hours in a ditch was hailed as a Good Samaritan in October 1987. Mr Dean Gray, 31, from Lurgan, who worked for Creamline Dairies was in Belfast to receive the first Dairy Council for Northern Ireland Care Code certificate, awarded to roundsmen covering thousands of homes up and down Northern Ireland. Dairy Council management committee chairman Mr Ivan McMurray said: “We know milkmen already take a caring attitude on their rounds and with the Care Code we will be awarding certificates of commendation to any milkman who carries out an act of service to others.” Mr Dean Gray is pictured receiving his Care Code certificate from Mr Ivan McMurray, chairman of the Dairy Council for Northern Ireland. Picture: News Letter archivesA milkman who rescued a crash victim trapped for several hours in a ditch was hailed as a Good Samaritan in October 1987. Mr Dean Gray, 31, from Lurgan, who worked for Creamline Dairies was in Belfast to receive the first Dairy Council for Northern Ireland Care Code certificate, awarded to roundsmen covering thousands of homes up and down Northern Ireland. Dairy Council management committee chairman Mr Ivan McMurray said: “We know milkmen already take a caring attitude on their rounds and with the Care Code we will be awarding certificates of commendation to any milkman who carries out an act of service to others.” Mr Dean Gray is pictured receiving his Care Code certificate from Mr Ivan McMurray, chairman of the Dairy Council for Northern Ireland. Picture: News Letter archives
A milkman who rescued a crash victim trapped for several hours in a ditch was hailed as a Good Samaritan in October 1987. Mr Dean Gray, 31, from Lurgan, who worked for Creamline Dairies was in Belfast to receive the first Dairy Council for Northern Ireland Care Code certificate, awarded to roundsmen covering thousands of homes up and down Northern Ireland. Dairy Council management committee chairman Mr Ivan McMurray said: “We know milkmen already take a caring attitude on their rounds and with the Care Code we will be awarding certificates of commendation to any milkman who carries out an act of service to others.” Mr Dean Gray is pictured receiving his Care Code certificate from Mr Ivan McMurray, chairman of the Dairy Council for Northern Ireland. Picture: News Letter archives

The monthly meeting of the committee of the Institute of Journalists was held in the Ulster Echo offices on Royal Avenue. The chairman for the meeting was Mr Thomas MacKnight.

There were also present Messrs John S Hamill, Joseph Laughlin (Ballymena), Alexander McMonagle, James McKee, Charles McKenzie, Edwin G Robinson, William J P Wilson and Andrew W Stewart, honorary secretary.

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Mr John Weir, editor and proprietor of the Ballymena Observer, was unanimously elected a member of the institute.

These winning women certainly knew how to go for gold. After the World Transport Games in Innsbruck, Austria, in September 1987, they returned with seven of the precious metal medals. And at a reception in Belfast's City Hospital in October 1987, Jackie Smiley, left, and Janet Greeves, centre, both from Belfast, and Janet Coleman from Newry. All three women had undergone kidney transplants. Picture: News Letter archivesThese winning women certainly knew how to go for gold. After the World Transport Games in Innsbruck, Austria, in September 1987, they returned with seven of the precious metal medals. And at a reception in Belfast's City Hospital in October 1987, Jackie Smiley, left, and Janet Greeves, centre, both from Belfast, and Janet Coleman from Newry. All three women had undergone kidney transplants. Picture: News Letter archives
These winning women certainly knew how to go for gold. After the World Transport Games in Innsbruck, Austria, in September 1987, they returned with seven of the precious metal medals. And at a reception in Belfast's City Hospital in October 1987, Jackie Smiley, left, and Janet Greeves, centre, both from Belfast, and Janet Coleman from Newry. All three women had undergone kidney transplants. Picture: News Letter archives

Attention was drawn to “ the defective arrangements” for the reporting of proceedings in connections of the visit of the Right Honourable Leonard Courtney, MP, to Belfast, and the “unpleasantness which ensued”.

A resolution was unanimously adopted: “That, having regard to the injurious results to working journalists of the informal invitations to social functions which have recently been given to the Belfast press, the committee are of the opinion that in the event of such invitations being received in future, the journalists in charge of the engagements in the various newspaper offices be requested to establish a common basis of action with regard to the reporting of any speeches which may be delivered at such functions.”

Sunday delivery of letters

In the House of Commons this week in 1890 South Down MP Michael McCartan asked the Postmaster-General whether he was aware that, “during the present year”, a written request for a Sunday delivery of letters from Millisle to Carrowdore had been made to the Secretary of the General Post Office, Dublin, by “a large and influential number of inhabitants” of the district of Carrowdore and Donaghadee.

Pictured in October 1987 is Karen Fraser, 11, of Bangor who was a member of St Gall's Parish Church, Carnalea, Bangor, to mark the church's 25th anniversary Harvest Thanksgiving. Picture: News Letter archivesPictured in October 1987 is Karen Fraser, 11, of Bangor who was a member of St Gall's Parish Church, Carnalea, Bangor, to mark the church's 25th anniversary Harvest Thanksgiving. Picture: News Letter archives
Pictured in October 1987 is Karen Fraser, 11, of Bangor who was a member of St Gall's Parish Church, Carnalea, Bangor, to mark the church's 25th anniversary Harvest Thanksgiving. Picture: News Letter archives
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The Postmaster-General said: “I have to state that the Sunday post between Millisle and Carrowdore was discontinued three years ago on a memorial from the inhabitants receiving two-thirds of the correspondence; and I shall be happy to sanction its restoration upon similar conditions.

“But the memorial forwarded a few months ago in favour of the restoration of the post was found, on careful inquiry, to represent the receivers of only one-half of the correspondence; and having inquired with regard to the regulations which govern questions of this kind, I should not at present feel warranted in acceding to the wishes of the memorialists.”

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