LYTTELTON NEWS.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19363, 16 July 1928, Page 14

LYTTELTON NEWS.

Harbour Board Lease. • ■ The' Lyttelton Harbour Board has accepted the tender of Messrs Kestar, Ltd., of Auckland, and Wanganui, for the lease of an area of land on the new reclamation ground at Naval Point, Lyltelton, for. a'term of twentyone . years. The .upset rental nxed by. the ! Board 'wis £2OO per acre per annum.

Maori's Rough Trip. The ferry Bteamer .Maori had. a rough passage in the - earlier part of the trip from ■Wellington 1 on Saturday night. She arrived alongside We wharf at 7.30 yesterday morning, having been driven through the gale to enable the Wellington excursionists to Otira tb connect with the second excursion train. They numbered -52, and were given time to breakfast .at, the Cjiristchurch railway station before, proceeding.

.'.".' lira en Wharf. When Mr L. Revell, an employee of the Union Steam Ship C 0.,. visited ,the .far end of 7 the. ferry wharf in th'e course of his duties about six o'clock yesterday morning he discovered that part, of-the decking of the wharf wis on fire. ,■ With the assistance of a Harbour, Board watchman, Mr S. Lane, tho fire was extinguished by the application of sev-eral-buckets. of-water. It is thought that a match or a cigarette butt must have; been .dropped through a crack in the decking_the night bofore, as the fire occurred'alongside the saloon gangway. Fanned by the strong wind, tho wood smouldered all night. Several feet of the underdecking was burned away, and the fire eventually broke through the hardwood top-deck-ing,, two or three feet of.which was burned. The position of the fire was screened from observation by a breakwind wall.

". Harbour Light Theatre. . "The. Midnight Rose," starring Lya De Putti and Kenneth Harlan, and "Love's Blindness," featuring Pauline Starke and An: tonio Moreno, will be. repeated at the Harbour Light Theatre to-night, together with a comedy and ga'selte. To-morrow, "Sailors Wives,"' starring Lloyd Hugfteß and. Mary Astor, ,and '.'The Texas Bear-Cat," featuring Bob' Ouster, Will be screened. The supporting programme includes a comedy-serial and scenic. Fancy Dresß Dance. A, plain and facny dress dance was given in ,St.'Saviour's Schoolroom on Friday evening by Mesdames A. H. Fletcher and F. Hobbs; There was a largo attendance, and mußic was provided by Miss Phyllis Plimmer. Mrs ; Loney judged; the costumes, and prizes were-awarded as follows: —Best dressed lady, Miss May Cracroft Wilson (Lily Langtry); best dressed gentleman, Mr Alan Curnow (Turk); most original lady, Miss Patricia Ronalds . (Silver Chimes); most original gentleman, Mr-Victor Dromgoole (Frothblower). A lucky-spot waltz was won by Miss Jean Hobbs and Mr N. Odey. Those present included:—Misseß Edna Ayers (Irish Colleen), Myra Sutton (Early Victorian), Edie Wales (Query), Leila J3cott (Hungarian), Ruth Morris (Dawn), Peggy Rhind (Pirate), Honor Plimmer (Gipsy), Nancy' Wilson (Early Victorian), -Verona Shadbolt (Rainbow), Margery Hunter (Rose), Winnie Wales (Pierrette), Nolly Agar (The Three Arts), Olive Hobbs (Miss Muffitt), Gladyß Dennis (Daffodil), Messrs E. Huston (Jack Tar). D.' Wallace (Sailor), J. Curnow (Paderewski), C. Wilson (Cowboy), J. Nelson. (Ku Klux Klan), Mr and Mrs A. H. Fletcher, Mr and Mrs F. Hobbs Mr and Mrs G. Patience, Mr and Mrs J. Gibson, Mr and Mrs T'. M. Curnow, Mr and Mrs Dennis, Mesdames T. M. Hunter, J. Plimmer, McKay, G: Morris, G. Ronalds, Odey, Hams, Loney, Misses Jean Fletcher, P. Hobbs (2) A. Pascoe, A. Voyce. L. Thompson, Mather, T. Lester. Houghton (2), Barraelough (2). G. Carson, M. Koskella, A. Murphy, M. Sillars, E. Huston, Messrs p. McKehzie, N. Derbidge, Gower'(2),F. Morris, Curnow (3), C. Fletcher, Pascoe. (2 . L. Huston, Hobbs. (2). J. Bundy, A. Nolan, J. Rhind, J. Sowden, M. Foubister. Odey, D. Whitford, Dobson, and R. Scott.

• Hockey Club Dance. Undoubtedly the most successful scries of dances in Lyttelton this season are those organised bv the Trinity Ladies* Hockey Club. These lad'ies are willing workers in the organisation of their dances, special attention being paid to decorations, lighting effects, and novelty dances. The dance held on Saturday night was a blue balloon dance, and was in every way enjoyable. There was again a very large attendance. Mis 6D. Jones s orchestra of five supplied the dance music, and a Bit-down supper was provided. Mr A. Bayne gave an exhibition of the Kick Haju dance, which is featured, in the musical comedy, "Rio Rita," and other dances.

A handicap match played at Diamond Harbour, on* Saturday afternoon, for Mr F. E. Sutton's trophy was won by W. Paton. Playing in the first round of the senior championship at Charter's Bay yesterday, lan Davidson defeated C.-E. Ayers, 4 and 3. In the. first round of the junior championship, R. Miller defeated C. D. McKenzie, -4 and' 3.