LYTTELTON NEWS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20026, 6 September 1930, Page 20

LYTTELTON NEWS.

SCHOOLS TO RESUME. The Lyttelton District High School, and the West Lyttelton School will re open on Tuesday morning, for term of the year. Seamen'r, Institute. An enjoyable concert, arranged by Mr F. Heal for the Lyttelton Gu.ld, was held in tho Seamen's Institute on "1 hursday evening, before an audience 0 a OU 30 men. The programme wM"®] lows:—Pianoforte solos, Mr -<• 7 onds; songs, Miss J. Nystram, * Mintcy, Messrs F. Heal, and • 7 onds, interspersed with chorus community singing. The ■. were Miss Vidulich and Mr L. Sy ' The Superintendent acted as c ai and at the conclusion expresse thanks of the audience to the P er ers. Supper was afterwards serve Power Curtailments. Further power curtailments been arranged by the Lyttelton Boroug Council. The block-lighting in the main business area is to be turned off 9 p.m., and the street lights at midnight, an hour earlier than at presen . Cr. W. D. Gower, chairman of the Lighting Committee of the Lyttelton Borough Council, said yesterday t a i Council urged the strictest economy ia the use of current, especially or ia \ atom, stoves, and water-heaters. e Council's Electricity Department was approaching many of the larger suuiers with suggestions for en ment The lighting of tho Department s showroom had been discontinued and the Council was using all means to economise in its own consumption, lhe recent inspection of the boroug or leaky taps and cisterns had resulted m a saving of 20 per cent, in the amount of current needed for pumping.