LYTTELTON NEWS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20089, 19 November 1930, Page 18

LYTTELTON NEWS.

PERSONAL. ' » At (he meeting of the General Purposes Committee of the Lyttelton Borough Council on Monday night, a -.notion of condolence with the widow and relatives of the late Mr J. Carter, who was a Council employee for many years, was passed. Harbour Light Theatre. "Hot for Paris," an all-talking and laughing production starring Victor McLaglen, Fifi D'Orsay, and El Brendel, is the chief attraction at the Harbour I.ight Theatre to-night. It is the story of a couple of sailormen (Victor McLaglen and El Brendel) on a. tramp steamer, who win the Calcutta Sweep. They proceed to Paris to celebrate and their doings and the entanglements into which they get, cause much merriment. There is a good suppotting programme. On Saturday, "Dames Ahoy," which is also a comedy of sailormen will bo scrcneed. Glenn Tryon and Otis Harlan are the stars. Vice-Regal Visit. An alteration has been made in the programme in connexion with the visit to Jjyttclton on Monday next of tho Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, and I,ndy Bledisloe. Instead of being entertained at morning tea by the Mayor and Councillors, their Excellencies will be taken for a trip around the harbour in the tug, Lyttelton, and will be the guests of the Harbour Board at lunchcon on* board the tug. Ladies' Swimming Club. The Ladies' Swimming Club held their first weekly beach afternoon at. Corsair Ba.v yesterday. There was a large attendance of members, but weather conditions did not encourage swimming. Afternoon tea was partaken of in the shelter shed. A Good Teat. The feat of taking out the 17,000-ton motor-liner liangitane was accomplished at Lvttelton shortly before 10 o'clock last night. A boisterous north-easterly wind was blowing, and the vessel was bow-in at the Gladstone Pier, the most awkward berth in tho harbour. However, the work of getting her o,ut from the wharf and swinging her was accomplished expeditiously and without incident with the help of the tug. Probably at no other port in New Zealand would so large a vessel be taken out at night, even under tht most favourable weather conditions.