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A letter to all staff from Lord Sainsbury January 3rd 1967

I should like to inform you of a number of changes we are making in the management of the Company as follows:— As many of you know, I am now approaching my 65th birthday; further, during recent years I have undertaken numerous public duties. With these facts in mind and knowing the range of experience amongst my co-Directors, I have come to the conclusion that the time has arrived when I should cease to take any direct part in the management of the Company. I have accordingly relinquished my Chairmanship of the Company, but I am retaining my Directorship, and in this capacity will be available for consultation at director level. My interest in the affairs of the business will, of course, remain unabated, and it will make me very happy to be of what assistance I can to my colleagues on the Board. I have accepted the office of President of the Company, and I shall be extremely proud of that office. You will understand that after 45 years, I am naturally a little sad that the passage of time has inevitably brought to an end my executive role in the Company. However, this is in no sense a farewell, although my relationship with you all will be different since I shall no longer be exercising any executive function. It is with great pleasure that I inform you that my brother, Mr. R. J., for many years Joint General Manager

with me, has succeeded me as Chairman. It is also with great pleasure that I inform you that my eldest son, Mr. J. D., has been appointed Vice-Chairman of the Company and will succeed me as Head of Trading. These arrangements in no way alter the present responsibilities of my cousin, Mr. James, or indeed, of any of the other Directors. I would also like to take this opportunity to inform you that Mr. Turner will be retiring from the Board and as Secretary of the Company at the end of March on reaching the age of 60. I am happy to say, however, that Mr. Turner will then become an Advisory Director, so that the Company will continue, at director level, to have the benefit of his knowledge and long experience. I am also very pleased to inform you that Mr. G. C. Hoyer Millar has been appointed an additional Director of the Company and Mr. Turner will be progressively handing over to him responsibility for the Warehouse and Transport Department and the Motor Engineers Department. Mr. J. B. Dennis will become Secretary of the Company as from April 1st and will be responsible for the Company Secretary functions carried out by Mr. Turner. With my best wishes to you all.

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Lord Sainsbury Elder son of Mr. J. B. Sainsbury. He joined the firm on January 1st 1921 and was made a director in August 1933. He became Chairman on the death of Mr. J. B. Sainsbury on June 7th 1956.

Mr. R. J. Sainsbury younger son of Mr. J. B. Sainsbury joined the firm in autumn 1930. He was made a Director in February 1934 and for many years was Joint General Manager with Lord Sainsbury. He was appointed Deputy Chairman in June 1956. Mr. R. J. is now Chairman of the Company.

Mr. J. D. Sainsbury eldest of Lord Sainsbury's three sons is now appointed Vice-Chairman. Mr. J. D. joined the firm in 1950 and became a Director in 1958.

Mr. G. C. Hoyer Millar newly appointed Director of the Company. Before joining the Company, Mr. Hoyer Millar, who is 38, had travelled in many parts of the world negotiating oil con­cessions. He was a commis­sioned officer in the Artists' Rifles and was with Special Air Service in Malaya after the 6

war. He has a Master of Law Degree at Michigan University and is a member of the Middle Temple. He joined JS as a Senior Executive in 1964 and recently acted on Mr. Turner's behalf on matters concerning day-to-day operations and the development of production facilities at Basingstoke. Mr. Hoyer Millar will succeed

Mr. Turner as Director re­sponsible for the Warehouse and Transport Departments and the Motor Engineers Department. Mr. Hoyer Millar captained Harrow Cricket XI, played cricket and also boxed for Oxford and in 1952 was capped as a Scottish Rugby International.

NEWS Si DEVELOPMENTS

Basingstoke is being enlarged. At its southern end, on the right in the picture above, building operations are going on which will add new cold storage areas, a roll and special palette repair shop, a quality control room, offices and a tea bar. There will also be a 'returns' area

and a short extension to the despatch bay. Roofing operations seen in our cover picture are an extension of the existing type of roof. Installation for the cold stores will be slung under it.

Feltham in Middlesex, not far from London Airport, saw a new JS Branch open on November 29 last year, at 76/80 High Street. Picture on the left shows the multi­storey car park nearby. The tall block next to it faces the town's new shopping precinct just behind our former branch. This was one of the Coppen chain which Sainsbury's took over in 1954. On the right (opposite page) are our cashiers, just before the doors were opened, on a sunny Tuesday morning. The branch has 10 checkouts and a shopping area of about 6,000 square feet.

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Manager at Feltham is Mr. C. W. Tucker, who joined JS in 1930, first became a manager in 1937. He comes to Feltham from New Maiden.

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People at Feltham. Top /e#, Mr. D. Hopkins, Assistant Manager. Top right, Mr. R. Wannell, Head Butcher with Meat Supervisor Mr. E. Mant. Centre left, Mr. J. Pointer, Assistant Manager. Centre right, Mrs. M. Rudd, First Clerk. Left, Mr. M. Broomfield, Assistant Manager, with Manager, Mr. C. W. Tucker.

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N E W S & D E V E L O P M E N T S

Kingsland is a part of East London where JS have been trading since 1899, when we opened the branch at 12/16 Kingsland High Road. The panel of Victorian tiles on the left are from that branch which still has many of the decorative features that were essential for a well set up provision shop at the end of the 19th century. The shop further up the High Road at No. 73 (see our last issue) was almost as elaborately decorated. It opened in 1906 and closed on December 6, 1966, to be replaced by a branch - the first of its kind - specially built as Grocery Self-service.

Manager at Kingsland's new branch at 82/84 High Street, is Mr. C. A. Ingle, who joined the firm in 1938. He first became a Manager in 1962.

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BOTH SIDES OF THE WALL

The Kurfurstendamm, one of West Berlin's most fashionable streets. On the right is the Mercedes building.

West Berlin is a show place for western democracy in the middle of the Eastern zone of Germany. As one would expect, a great deal of new building has been undertaken, hotels, shops and office blocks. The city looks prosperous and the West Berliners are well clothed, certainly well fed, and from what I gathered during my brief stay, unconcerned at living on what is virtually an island deep in the Soviet zone.

There are a great many new and up-to-date self-service food stores, the chief difference from our own being the German preference for every imaginable kind of smoked sausage and apparent aversion to self-service fresh meat. Not all the stores we visited were self-service; one in particular that sticks in my mind, but which unfortunately I was unable to photograph, was the food section of a department store. It took up the whole of the sixth floor of a big building (why one of the top floors, I find it difficult to understand as the problem of supplying it must have been considerable). At a rough guess it was 20,000 sq. feet in area (including a small cafeteria), and carried the greatest variety of food I can ever recollect seeing. The most remarkable aspect was the array of smoked sausages which must have run into several tons and would have kept all our shops going for maybe three months, all on display on a Saturday afternoon. In West Berlin, all multiple food concerns close at 2 p.m. three Saturdays out of four - a somewhat confusing arrangement as the Saturday on which they should have been open they were in fact all closed! This departmental store, is not a party to the agreement and as a result its business seemed to be benefiting considerably.

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Mr. J . L. Woods writes about current developments in retail food trading in Berlin. He was there last November wi th Mr. J . D. Sainsbury and Mr. H. Robinski at a conference of the C.I.E.S.—the International association of chain stores.

In sharp contrast to West Berlin, the traffic-free famous Unter-den-Linden in East Berlin.

One of the things which impressed me about the self-service shops we later visited (those we were shown were probably the newest) was the high standard of shop fitting and equipment and the generally high standard of hygiene. Fresh meat departments for the most part were manual service and in most shops a counter was set aside for smoked sausages, cooked meats and what we call delicatessen. The variety of this kind of merchandise was bewildering and mouthwatering. Prices on the whole appeared to be slightly higher than in England, although in so short a time comparison is difficult. At all events a comparison of prices alone is misleading without taking into account the general standard of living and level of incomes.

Of the self-service stores we visited, one is outstanding in my memory. It was only 10 days old, is one of a chain of some 150 stores in Berlin and has been built as something of a show place and experiment. It was designed by a Swiss architect in what could perhaps be described as the "mod" idiom - almost entirely black and white. The store is just off the fashionable shopping street of Kurfurstendamm and has obviously been built for prestige. The photographs on the following pages can probably do it better justice than my description; its front is, as can be seen, a mural painted on concrete and floodlit by night. Inside, the floor is of white polished tiles about three inches square with a high reflective surface.

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Gondolas are finished matt black but each with individual lighting, the effect being to highlight the attractiveness of the goods as opposed to the fittings. Refrigerated cabinets were also of white tile, matt black metal and satin finished stainless steel -all custom built. Gondolas and cabinets were no more than five feet high and the only things which (at that time at any rate) were allowed on top of them were spotlights which illuminated the ceiling, painted in the same motif as the fascia. Walls were either white tile, mirror or stainless steel. It was certainly a most remarkable store -I'd very much like to revisit it in, say, a year's time!

The other stores we visited were less decorative but as the photographs show, nonetheless impressive. Incidentally, I learned the German equivalent of Head Butcher, fleischen melster, which to me sounds extremely impressive!

On the other side of the wall

During our brief stay we were able to make a visit to East Berlin. This opportunity to "see for ourselves" was too good to miss and we boarded an official tourist coach at 2.30 p.m. on the Sunday afternoon. First, our passports were examined and all our money counted and noted, and after a certain amount of instruction had been given to a U.S. uniformed "military person" on board the coach, to the effect that (a) he should wear his hat at all times and (b) on no account leave the bus if asked to alight even in the politest way by East German officials, we set off. In 10 minutes or so, during which time we were entertained by the West German courier, we arrived at Checkpoint Charlie. The West German courier had to leave us and we were checked and scrutinised with uncomfortable thoroughness by the border guards, the coach tapped and inspected generally. We were now in no man's land and took on an East German courier who was well educated, well spoken, helpful and polite, and who did a very good job of appearing unbiased even if we only saw what we were intended to see.

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Opposite page, top picture shows the fascia, a mural painted on concrete, of one of West Berlin's newest self-service stores; it was only ten days old when this picture was taken. Internal colour theme is black and white, white tiled floors, black gondolas which, as can be seen in the middle picture, are individually lit. Top left is a view of the ceiling painted with the same motif as the fascia. Refrigerated cabinet, opposite page; and in the bottom picture this page. Salamis can be seen hanging above the service fresh meat counter in the background. Bottom right, flush stainless steel doors, mirrors and white polished tiles form the back wall to the store.

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Top right, a typical counter-service for delicatessen in a large self-service store. Middle, a typical German wines and spirits department. Below, the dog problem solved ?

Photographs were allowed - except at Checkpoint Charlie, which incidentally is exactly like the film, although the wall perhaps is not so high as I had imagined. We were allowed off the coach at various places, the most interesting of which was undoubtedly the famous Pergammon museum where we spent about an hour. It was Sunday afternoon, so perhaps there were fewer cars than usual, but it was certainly ironic to see what are probably some of the widest roads in Europe with hardly a vehicle of any description on them. West Berlin is very good in this respect, there doesn't seen to be much of a traffic problem - more by virtue of the splendid roads than by lack of vehicles, but East Berlin is in very great contrast. There was hardly a car to be seen. The people looked adequately clothed and fed, but the whole atmosphere was grey and cold; gutted buildings, and empty open spaces remain as evidence of war damage. Some new buildings have gone up, mainly what appear to be medium class blocks of flats and what I considered a monstrous concrete aerial tower. We saw the Bunker, which looked like a mound in a field, and the Brandenburg gate which looked extremely forbidding in the iate afternoon sunlight, and all that was left of the once-famous Adlon hotel, looking pathetically un-Grand (could this have been the hotel of Vicki Baum's novel?). So eventually back to Checkpoint Charlie, where we once again went through the passport and inspection routine, only more so. In addition to the personal scrutiny, one of the guards walked round the coach with a torch and mirror on wheels to make sure that nobody was hanging on underneath. But no check on how much money we brought out so why worry about how much we took in?

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THE PRODUCE REVOLUTION

In England the average man or woman eats 200 lb. of potatoes a year. Over in Ireland consumption is about double that. Although potatoes were introduced into both England and Ireland during the last quarter of the sixteenth century, it took a couple of hundred years for English farmers to take them on as a field-crop. In Ireland they became, almost instantly, a staple food. The original potato, a native plant of the mountains of Chile and Peru, was grown as a food crop at least a couple of thousand years ago. The South American Indians had even perfected a freeze-drying technique for preserving them. Introduction into Europe was probably made first by the Spaniards with (as ever) Sir John Hawkins and Co. in hot pursuit. Sir Walter Raleigh gets credit for first plantings on his Irish estates at Youghal in 1586 or 1588. Outside of Ireland there seems to have been confusion about the whole idea of the potato. The English tried eating them raw then took a fancy to growing them as an exotic indoor plant. They got into the menu by slow stages. Two centuries had passed, corn was scarce and bread dear before the English farmer began to think of the potato as an alternative food crop. The Irish cultivators had by this time made the potato a basic element in their agriculture, using it for fattening hogs and cattle and as an ingredient in winter fodder for cows. They had also reintroduced it to America in the early 1700's. Today the white varieties in USA are still classified as 'Irish'.

No crop can compare with potatoes as a cheap source of energy because their food

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yield per acre has double the food value of corn and many times that of beef produced on a similar acreage. Potatoes have become almost indispensable in many countries. Although, as general living standards improve, there is a trend towards lower consumption per head, a constant demand for freshly dug potatoes is maintained all the year round in England. Home grown crops come on the market in May and continue to be available till December. We fill in the gap from December till the next May with potatoes imported from the Canary Islands, the Channel Islands and the potato growing areas around the Mediterranean. Disease control, better fertilisers and mechanical aids have made cultivation much easier and so it has become necessary to control the acreage of potatoes grown because supply could so very easily outstrip home demand. The Potato Marketing Board was set up to control potato marketing in England and to guard against this sort of breakdown. Today any grower who grows and sells an acre or more of potatoes must register with the Board which each year decides the acreage of potatoes to be grown. If a grower exceeds his quota he becomes liable to a substantial fine. In any event, he must make a payment (about £3) for each acre authorised to be grown. This control of acreage is one way in which the Board tries to ensure that production, whilst adequate, is not so high as to make the crop uneconomical to grow and market. The Board also decrees the size of potatoes to be sold, and in this way seeks to regulate the volume for human consumption and keep the price reasonably stable.

JS branches get their home produced potatoes from four packing stations. They may be stored for several months unwashed and so the soil tends to set very hard around them. To get rid of this, the potatoes are 'flumed' along water channels to a soakage tank in which they are left for half an hour. They are next lifted into washing machines, put through a drier and then into a sizing machine. The undersized ones fall through a mesh and end up as useful cattle fodder; the

Above, potato pickers fill sacks in the fields. Opposite page left, the potatoes are being 'flumed' along water conduits into storage tanks. Right, a table made of rollers keeps the potatoes spinning for inspection. Below is the weighing and packing belt.

oversized ones are taken off by hand. They end up as chips. The main body of good, average spuds move on to an inspection table made of slowly turning rollers which turn them over and over so that operatives can see the whole potato and take off defective ones. Next move is to the packing belt where 3 lb. and 5 lb. bags are made up. There is a final spot-check operating here before the potatoes are taken to Hoddesdon.

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f JLW, who wishes for reasons which will become clear to remain anonymous, describes why he rattles when he walks.

"How is i t old boy", said a colleague to me the other day, " that you now ratt le when you walk? It 's a thing I can't say I've noticed about you before." "I personally am not rattling," I reply, a little nettled perhaps that my secret should have been noticed. "It 's my tablets - the unconsumed ones. And I think I shall cease rattling before long as either my wife will have passed her driving test or I shall be in no fit state to continue walking around." My colleague considers this state of affairs for a moment or two, obviously wondering what effects my tablets are likely to have on my wife's success or otherwise, or her ability to outwit one of Her Majesty's Ministers of Transport Examiners. The connection gradu­ally dawns. "Either" says he, "they're tran-quilisers or pep pills for her before her test." "Wrong on both counts," I reply, "they're for her instructor, who according to his doctor is becoming ulcer prone." "Ha-ha that 's bad luck. Who is he by the way?" says colleague. "Me", I reply.

Now I am one of those people who always offer the very best of advice to other people and never dream about acting upon i t myself. "The last thing in the world to do" I say, in one of my advice-giving moments, "is to try to teach your wife to drive. I've seen more marriages broken up by people trying to do this than I care to remember. Don't touch it old man. Get a qualified instructor."

Complacent in the thought of how nice i t is when people come to me for advice, and how good to be able to advise sensibly, I usually return to my newspaper. This happened only a few months ago when the subject was brought up by a friend of mine - in my wife's hearing. After he'd gone and I was back a t the paper, my wife looks up and says, "Darling, don't you think i t would be a good idea if I

learned to drive?" This is an eventuality I had never really considered. "What's a ten letter word meaning transport unheard of in the 18th century, darling?" "Automobile" she replies promptly, "don't change the subject." "Not in my car," I reply. "What's an eight letter word meaning a piece of equipment found in everyday use in the modern home, but having other connotations?" "Radiator" she replies, just as promptly and I begin to perceive that she has been doing a certain amount of homework. "Don't you really feel it would be a good idea . . ." "Not a t all," I reply, "what's a 12 letter word indicating a frame of mind.. . ?" "Contemptible" she says, before I can finish. Of course the subject comes up again and a t not infrequent inter­vals. "Perhaps we could buy an old second hand car darling - i t would do for you to teach me on." I repress the thought of the possibility of buying an ex-army Bren carrier, but begin to realise that the situation is rapidly becoming out of hand.

Saturday sees us down at our local garage. We examine a variety of clapped out old hulks of varying horse power, vintage, colour and styling. We decide to forget all about it, when the proprietor suddenly remembers he has a trade-in coming in from somewhere which would suit us down to the ground - of course i t may be a bit more than we thought of going to, but of course i t really is a genuine snip, etc., etc. I remember I have something urgent to do elsewhere, but I catch a look in my wife's eye and decide i t would be better to do i t some other time and before we can say ignition key, or whatever, we are the proud owners of a 12-year-old family Austin A50 Saloon, for roughly twice what I imagined I might get away with. As usual my wife's logic prevails. "If we've got to pay £17 10s. Od. road

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tax (I assure her we have) i t 's much better to pay it on a respectable car than on one of those old relics." I agree i t is and in the end get quite excited about our new acquisition, especially when I find out i t goes and what's more, goes uphill, and if you put down hard enough on the appropriate pedal i t stops. Grudgingly perhaps . . . it 's a real "goer" says the garage man. I see what he means.

Next, of course, the problem of insuring it. "How long have you been driving" is the first question. Twenty years or more I can justly claim - so far so good. "Who else will drive the vehicle?" "My wife . . . " "Has she a licence?" "Only a provisional one . . ." Not quite so good. "Anybody else?" "My son." "How old is he and what does he do?" "He's 20 and a s tuden t . . . " I am beginning to realise that i t 's going- to cost almost as much to insure our car as i t is to buy it. "How much did you say the car was worth sir? . . . Hardly seems worth worrying about a comprehensive policy does it . . . ha-ha." Eventually the required contract is drawn up with an un­believable number of bits of paper almost invariably couched in such terms as the Underwriters reserve the right . . . and not­withstanding anything contained in this policy to the contrary, and other such ominous phrases.

I keep my fingers crossed that I may never have to cross swords with the characters who think up such a jungle of escape clauses.

"Will you start teaching me tomorrow darling?" is the next question. I remind my wife of all the good advice I have given to my friends and that I can now hardly change my tune. "Well," says my wife, "I've made some enquiries about driving lessons and the school down the road - he's the ex-police driver you know - (I do know - in fact I had reason to

know him before he was 'ex') charges 25s. an hour." My tune is becoming susceptible to change. Up to now I think I had vaguely been of the opinion that driving instructions come on a sort of prescription like the national health. (I have a feeling that if my experience is anything to go by i t would be cheaper for the country if it did.) Twenty-five bob an hour. I make a rough calculation of how much a week, almost deciding to change my job but realising that my health would never stand it. "He said 20 lessons should be enough", and was about to start on the logic theme again. I decided to go down and see the instructor.

I introduced myself as his local benefactor and felt that in view of all the good advice I'd handed on locally he'd be prepared to make me a Vice-President or something. When I showed him the car my wife was proposing to learn on, he paled slightly and mentioned something about long waiting lists and that he'd have to increase his prices slightly, etc., etc. I gather he'd had experience of our A50.

We had a couple of aspirins each and decided to part on friendly terms, he no doubt hoping I'd continue to dispense my good advice to all and sundry, I wondering what the trade-in value of a fifth hand Austin A50 should be.

However, I'm now teaching my wife to drive. There are two permanent dents in the floor

boards where my feet are apt to press in moments of stress. I've developed the odd nervous trick of looking round to see how close the car behind is - even when I'm sitting a t home doing the crossword puzzle.

"Actually old boy, my wife says I'm a very good teacher - and, I would add, very patient," I say to my colleague. "Well, what's worrying you?" says he. "I 'm rather afraid", I reply, reaching for my tablets, " that one of these days when I get home my wife is going to wave a little bit of paper a t me, the Certi­ficate of Proficiency of the Institute of Advanced Motoring." It would be more than my pride could stand.

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MR. R. S. HARBISON joined the firm on 1st June, 1946, having been chosen by Mr. Alan to be Head of the Grocery Buying Department.

Looking back over the years i t is hard to realise what a change has come about in the twenty years during which Mr. Harrison has been the Senior Grocery Buyer. During those early years, before the days of Self-Service and when the tonnage of groceries sold by JS was only a fraction of today's great volume, Mr. Harrison's task was mostly one of persuading suppliers to increase alloca­tions but, even in those early days, he laid the foundations for the quality judgements that have guided the Buying Department ever since. Then, in the early 1950's, as the years of shortages came to an end and as the number of JS Self-Service Branches grew, so the scale of buying by the Department of which Mr. Harrison was Head increased rapidly. His shrewdness as a market buyer combined with his exceptional knowledge of the trade played a very considerable part in ensuring the success of the Grocery Department. In recent years, as the range of lines sold by JS was extended, it became necessary to have a separate Department to handle some sections of the grocery trade that had formerly been Mr. Harrison's responsibility. However, the load on Mr. Harrison and his team steadily increased, particularly with the development of a wide range of J S own label lines which added a new impetus to our grocery trade.

An authoritative judge of quality Two of the most important commodities

purchased by Mr. Harrison's Department are tea and coffee and i t was in this field that Mr. Harrison's renown as an authority and judge of quality was a t i ts greatest. Every week that he was in business he held a lengthy and detailed tasting session, ensuring that the blend of J S teas maintained the highest quality possible.

As well as Mr. Harrison's achievement in leading the Grocery Buying Team for twenty years, one of his greatest contributions to J S was the way he taught and guided others with such success. He was the writer's "first boss" in J S and taught him an enormous amount about the trade and the ar t of buying. The importance of positions held today by a

number of former members of Mr. Harrison's Department is, itself, a tribute to the inspira­tion and teaching which Mr. Harrison gave them in their early years as Buyers.

In May 1964 Mr. Harrison suffered a serious illness and was away from the business for several months. The complete recovery that he was able to make was viewed with the greatest pleasure by his friends and colleagues at JS, who, at the party given for Mr. and Mrs. Harrison on the occasion of his retirement, were delighted to see how well he looked. We all wish him a long and happy retirement.

J. D. S.

Right, Mr. Harrison, Lady Sainsbury, Mrs. Harrison and Lord Sainsbury, at Mr. Harrison's retirement party which took place on December 29th 1966 at the Cafe Royal. Below left, Mr. Harrison, below right, Mr. J. D. Sainsbury, Mr. Harrison and Lord Sainsbury.

PARTY PIX Crawley branch held a children's party at their canteen on Monday, December 12th. Father Christmas to the 85 children who attended was Assistant Head butcher, Mr. Stan Smith.

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The Power Packers — they won. Standing: I. to r. P. Pashler, M. Hollyer, M. Bareham, N. Watson, D. Biggington, H. Smith. Kneeling: R. Colby, B. Rogers, C. Claydon, C. Bowers, D. Purse.

The Blue Cheeks Standing: I. to r. M. Woolner, J. Bareham, L. Claydon, J. Delany, M. Otley, E. Wakeley. Kneeling: C. Harper, G. Wilding, G. Wilding, C. Plummer, Z. Stimson. Linesmen: Mr. P. Mitson, Mr. R. Marsh.

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In East Anglia where ladies' football is said to be growing in popularity, JS girls at Haverhill took the field on November 13 in a match between two JS teams, The Power Packers and The Blue Cheeks. The Power Packers claim victory in this match. Referee was Mr. A. Brazier. The girls say they're trying to organise one or two more fixtures with factories and firms in the area.

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Coventry branch gave a party at the Locarno on November 22nd for Mr. N. Hayes, District Supervisor, who was leaving the Midlands to take over North London on Mr. Wrench's Area.

Mr. Hayes with his wife and Mr. Potter, Assistant Manager, who is making a farewell presentation.

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Coventry — Helping Hand Some of the staff of Coventry branch who spent their free day walking the 18 miles from Coventry to Stratford, Warwickshire, pulling a car. They were raising money for the Lord Mayor's Aberfan Fund and collected £17 Us. 8d. towards the £2,500 contributed by the city. Taking part were Dittos Handey, Torn Downer, Sandra Garrett, Dave Hiron, John Garrett, Trevor, Les, Percy and Martin.

Congratulations to Peter Proto (right) of JS Design Studio, who married Elisabeth Warburton, Assistant Librarian at the Central Library, London, on November 12th 1966 at St. Augustine's Church, Darlington, Durham.

STAFF IMEWS

Movements and Promotions

Managerial Transfers from Esher to Ewell from January 23 from Hatch End to Northwood from December 5 from Colindale to 101 Golders Green from January 2 from further service training to Esher from January 2 from Spare a t Coventry to Spare a t Rugby from January 2 from Spare a t Stevenage to Spare a t Bedford from January 2 from Northwood to Joel Street from January 2 from Stanmore to Colindale from December 12 from managerial relief of Swiss Cottage to the management of the branch as from December 19 from North Harrow to Stanmore from December 5 from managerial relief of Edgware to the management of the branch as from December 19 from Brondesbury to Wealdstone from January 2 from Hayward's Heath to Folkestone from January 2 from Self-Service training to Spare on Mr. Leach's area from December 5

Managerial Appointments H. MCCULLA from Spare a t Edgware to the

management of Hatch End from December 12

A. RATCLIFFE from Spare a t 31 Eastbourne to the management of Hayward's Heath from January 9

w. WINTER from Assistant Manager a t Hackney to the management of 296 Holloway from November 16

Promoted to Spare Manager R. BRYANT Wembley from January 9 K. INWARD Stevenage from November 28 j . JENNINGS Beading from January 9 a. MCGINNIS Muswell Hill from November 28

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D. BUTTON

R. GARDNER

E. HUGHES

K. INWARD

D. MADDOCKS

G. OGLE

W. PRICE

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3. TWELFTREE W. WATSON

Nuneaton from November 28 Dunstable from November 28

Assistant Manager Transfers from North Cheam to Tolworth from January 9 from Tolworth to Wimbledon from January 9 from Palmer's Green to Potters Bar from November 21 from 84/88 Hove to 66 Brighton from December 14 from Potters Bar to High Barnet from November 21 from 84/88 Hove to 10 Eastbourne from January 4 from Chichester to 84/88 Hove from January 2 from Maidstone to Chatham from December 20 from 9/11 Croydon to Display Spec­ialist in training from January 30

D. SMITH from Beading to Display Specialist in training from January 16

Promoted to Assistant Manager Muswell Hill from January 16

3. ALLPRESS

P. DANIELS

A. EDWARDS

W. HAMMOND

T. MARCHANT

M. RUSSELL

D. BARNES D. BRACEY L. BUTLER

Kingsbury from December 5 Southall from December 5

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K. CHASE J. DAVIES

A. EDWARDS C. HART

L. HURFORD F. PAYNE L. PEALL T. REEVES

K. STONE R. WILKS

Correction M. F. RUSSELL

222 Watford from December 19 68 Croydon from November 28 84/88 Hove from December 19 Kenton from December 19 67 Sutton from December 12 Cowley from December 5 24 Croydon from December 5 Beokenham from November 28 Hayes from December 5 Maidstone from December 12

9/11 Croydon from October 24 not A. RUSSEIX as in December

Head Butcher Transfers M. GREGORY from temporary Head Butchers'

duties a t Feltham to Reading from December 13

E. KITCHINGHAM from Kenton to Self-Service training from November 29

R. WANNELL from Spare a t Feltham to Feltham from December 13

Long Service Congratulations to the following colleagues who have completed long service with the firm.

Forty Years' Service A. c. BARRETT Head Butcher, Northwood A. COVERDALE Fresh Meat Department, Swiss

Cottage F. PANKHURST Manager, Stoke Newington A. VINCENT Assistant Head Butcher,

Collndale

Twenty-five Years' Service MRS. M. E. STARK Fart-time Seamstress.

Blackfriars Depot

Retirements We send our best wishes to the following colleagues who have just retired.

L. Humphrey commenced with the firm on the 1st January 1923 a t 158 Catford and spent most of his JS life in this area. He was appointed Manager of Catford Hill In July 1940. staying there until July 1941, when he went to Forest Hill as Manager. In November 1963 he was transferred as Manager to 73 Croydon, remaining there until the branch closed in June 1965, when he took over the management of Ewell, from which branch he retired on the 21st January 1967.

R. J. Merrick started with JS on the 26th January 1925 a t 177 Haverstock, remaining there until October 1929, when he went to South Harrow for the opening. He stayed in this area taking over the management of Forty Avenue in August 1940. From July 1941 until he left for National Service in July 1944, he worked a t various branches. On his return from National Service he again took over the management of Forty Avenue, staying there until October 1951, when he went to Joel Street as Manager, from where he retired on the 31st December 1966.

H. Rumsey began his career with JS on the 29th October 1928 a t 66 Brighton, staying there until July 1930, when he was transferred to Worthing for the opening. In September 1935 he was appointed Manager of 140 Finchley Boad, remaining there until July 1941. During the rest of the War years he worked a t Marble Arch and Brent Street, before going back to 140 Finchley Boad in June 1945 as the Manager. In October 1950 he was appointed Manager of Gloucester Boad and in June 1953 took over the management of 101 Golders Green, from which branch he retired on the 31st December 1966.

A. E. Tarrant was engaged on the 16th October 1922 a t 3 Golders Green, staying there until June 1926, when he went to Mill Hill. In February 1929 he returned to 3 Golders Green as the Manager, remaining until January 1932 when he was appointed Manager of Brent Street. From April 1941 to March 1943 he worked a t various branches, before taking over the management of 14 Cricklewood Lane, then in April 1946 he was transferred to 160 Cricklewood as Manager. In May 1949 he took over 13/15 Blackfriars, managing this branch for 10 years before going to Wembley branch, which he managed until February 1966, when that branch closed on the opening of the Self-Service store. He then took over the management of Wealdstone, from which branch he retired on the 31st December 1966.

L. P. Warnes joined the firm on 24th September 1923 a t Wembley, staying there until November, when he went to 6 Norwich. In July 1925 he was transferred to 41 Norwich for the opening, consequently returning to 6 Norwich. In October 1937 he returned to 41 Norwich as Manager, staying there until July 1940, when he took over the management of Colchester, transferring to

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Chelmsford in April 1946. In February 1947 he became Manager of St. Albans, remaining there until October 1954, when he was appointed to the management of 6 Norwich. He managed this branch until May 1965, when he took over Folkestone, from which branch he retired on the 28th January 1967.

Mrs. L. K. Bell commenced with the Company as a part-time supply woman a t Cambridge in August 1949, remaining there for nearly three

L. P. Warnes Mrs. L. K. Bell Mrs. P. A. M. Church Mrs. G. E. Falkenhagen Mr. J. A. L. Haywood Miss R. T. Hutton Mr. J. Mansfield Mr. G. R. Stayton

years. She rejoined JS in 1957 as a part-time saleswoman, and was later regraded to leading saleswoman. She retired from Cambridge on 1st November 1966.

Mrs. C. Burville joined the Company as an assistant housekeeper a t 357 Harrow in July 1949. After working a t South Harrow and Ballards Lane, she became daily housekeeper a t 357 Harrow in 1954. Subsequently she worked a t several branches before transferring to Basingstoke depot as a canteen assistant in December 1963. She retired on 1st November 1966.

Mrs. P. A. M. Church began as a daily help a t Bedford in February 1948. After a short period away from the firm, she returned as a daily domestic assistant a t Bedford in October 1951, remaining there until her retirement on 29th October 1966.

Mrs. G. E. Falkenhagen commenced as a resident housekeeper a t 160 Cricklewood in April 1952. Nine months later she was transferred to Hampstead, and was regraded to daily housekeeper a t this branch in April 1961. She retired on 29th October 1966.

Miss M. Gehan was engaged as a part-time second hand in the factory in January 1950, and later regraded to full-time. She retired after a long illness on 28th October 1966.

Mrs. C. Grainger was engaged as an office cleaner a t Blackfriars in February 1950, and retired on 25th November 1966.

Mr. J. A. L. Haywood commenced in May 1922 with Coppens, later becoming a manager with them. He joined JS when Coppens was taken over assisting in the records department in the Personnel Department a t Blackfriars. He retired on 1st December 1966.

Miss R. T. Hutton was engaged as a resident housekeeper a t Barkingside in November 1957. In 1962 she moved to 259 Ilford, returning to Barkingside in the following year. She retired on 29th October 1966.

Mr. A. Levy commenced as a porter a t 14/15 Leytonstone in July 1961, retiring from this position on 19th November 1966.

Mr. J . Mansfield commenced as a porter a t Chingford in August 1949. He retired on 29th October 1966.

Mr. E. J . Parks was engaged as a travelling cycle fitter on 25th October 1926. In November 1933 he became a Leyland driver, and was later regraded to a night driver in the depot. He retired on 28th October 1966.

Mr. G. R. Stayton began as a poultry learner a t 9/11 Croydon in March 1933. He later worked a t Caterham and Purley before moving to Redhill as a butcher in 1946. Three years later he was transferred to Oxford as a poulterer, working subsequently a t Marble Arch and 9/11 Croydon. He was promoted to senior leading butcher a t the lat ter branch in 1961, and retired due to reasons of ill-health on 1st October 1966.

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Obituaries We regret to record the death of the following colleagues, and send our sympathy to all relatives The passing of Arthur Goodwin in November of last year, severed the last link between the Firm and the Goodwin family. We asked Mr. W. C. Gurr to write about this connection for us.

Arthur Goodwin

Arthur's father, William Goodwin, was the first employee engaged by the Founder, Mr. J . J. Sainsbury, in the early 1870's. He started work in Queen's Crescent, Kentish Town, the first of the Firm's branches. Shop boy, stall-man, porter, carman, buyer of Ostend rabbits, first bacon stoveman and generally the right hand man of Mr. J. J., until the growth of the Firm necessitated the employment of others to take over the various departments. When in 1891 the Firm moved its Headquarters from Allcroft Road, Kentish Town, to Stamford Street, William became the resident foreman at the Bacon Stoves and Stables in Gravel Lane, Southwark. He was a very strong man physically and tough in his handling of men. He was a great character who had witnessed the remarkable progress of the Firm from its earliest beginnings. He died during the last war, a t the age of 84. His son, Arthur, who was born a t Allcroft Road, Kentish Town, moved with his family to Gravel Lane and in 1899 joined the Firm as a boy. After experience in several departments, Arthur settled down for many years in charge of despatch in the Poultry and Game Department. He was in charge during the absence of the buyers on the market and supervised the selection of every item sent to the branches. The department in Arthur's time was a colourful place with a tremendous range of game not seen in our shops today. It included: pheasants, guinea fowl, hares, grouse, partridges, teal, pintail, widgeon, Bordeaux pigeons, petite poussin, capercailzie, Manchurian pigeons, Hungarian chickens and turkeys, Italian turkeys, French geese and turkeys, English wild rabbits, Ostend rabbits and vast quantities of Australian rabbits.

Arthur eventually left the department for a position in the Warehouse as foreman, and when the Warehouse decentralised in 1940, he went to our depot a t Bramshott in Hampshire, remaining there until the depot closed after the war. He continued as a Bank Foreman at Stamford House until his retirement in September 1946. Like his father, he lived to a good age and was over 80 when he died. The lives of the Goodwins, father and son, both employees of the Firm, spanned almost the 97 years of progress of the Firm, w. c. GURK

M. J. Mi titer commenced with the firm at Blackfriars as a warehouseman on 9th November 1923, where he remained until 1941. In October 1941 he was transferred to Woolmer Green (one of our wartime depots) as a foreman. After the war he returned to Blackfriars as Departmental Manager of our Stores Department. He was very popular with his colleagues and his sudden death on 14th December 1966 came as a shock to all of them.

M. J. Minter H. Nielsen Mr. H. Nielsen began as a basket issuer a t Oxhey in July 1955. He retired in June 1965 and died on 3rd November 1966.

Mr. F. C. Pearce commenced with JS as a meat porter a t Union Street in August 1920. He was regraded to meat checker a t Union Street in March 1950, retiring on 28th February 1966 for reasons of ill health. He died on 26th November 1966.

Mr. F. S . Phillips began as a garage car washer in November 1935 and later became a driver in the transport department. In 1960 he became a petrol pump attendant in Motor Engineers' department, and two years later he was transferred to the post department in Stamford House. He retired on 29th May 1964 and died on 27th November 1966.

Mr. H. H. Taylor commenced as an assistant a t Muswell Hill in November 1907. Subsequently he worked in the Holloway and Islington areas before transferring to 13/15 Blackfriars in 1918. Two years later he moved to Crouch End, where he was promoted to salesman in 1934. In May 1936 he was transferred to Wood Green, from which branch he retired in July 1946. He died on 7th November 1966.

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The Duke of Edinburgh's Award

With the approval of its President H . R . H . The Duke of Edinburgh

the Council of the Royal Society of Arts has awarded the Society's Presidential Medal

for Design Management to J Sainsbury Limited

and three other organisations BTR Industries Limited

Clydesdale Bank Limited A G Thornton Limited

The medal was instituted in June 1964 to recognise from time to time outstanding

examples of design policy in commercial and industrial organisations and

public undertakings in this country

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