25 years ago - The Times
Tuesday, May 10, 1994
Stock Exchange considering electronic trading
The Malta Stock Exchange is setting up a compensation scheme and considering the introduction of electronic trading on the floor of the exchange, Mr Patrick G. Staines, Stock Exchange chairman, said. It is also looking forward to moving to what is currently the Central Mail Room at Castille Place. Mr Staines said in the annual report for 1993, that the exchange saw a large increase in the volume and value of business handled, from just under Lm12 million in 1992 to more than Lm41 million last year.
Reversal of downward trend in diabetics cases reported
The number of visits by the Malta Memorial District Nursing Association to diabetics increased by 15,057 last year. According to the association’s annual report visits to both association subscribers and department of health patients suffering from diabetes increased from 179,389 in 1992 to 194,446 last year.
Presenting the report, MMDNA management board chairman Louis Galea said: “There was a small increase in the number of cases and visits to diabetics, but this is a trend reversal.”
Half a century ago - Times of Malta
Saturday, May 10, 1969
Maltese family back from Australia for a holiday
Two weary-looking passengers and a child stepped off the Città Alessandria after a gruelling 9,000-mile drive across nine different countries.
The ‘Commer’ van they drove, sporting a wire net across the windshield and a map of the route they took from Australia was driven off the ship and on to Sliema to be parked in a side street.
Mr Arthur Vella Zarb, his wife Elaine and their five-year-old son David, were living in Canberra four months ago and they wanted to come to Malta for a holiday.
“We had heard of quite a few people who had gone to Europe overland,” Mrs Vella Zarb said yesterday. “And after some Australian friends encouraged us to do it we started thinking about it.”
So over the weekends, Mr Vella Zarb who works as a computer programmer in Canberra, started working on his ‘Commer’ van equipping it with the amenities one normally finds in a caravan.
He installed beds, a compact kitchen, “enough tinned food to last for months”, 15 gallons of freshwater, 20 gallons of spare petrol, spare tyres and spare parts.