LYTTELTON NEWS.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20448, 19 January 1932, Page 13

LYTTELTON NEWS.

PERSONAL. -Misses M. and C. Williams are spending a holiday .-it Hanmer. Ambulance Examination. Tho following members of St. John Ambulance Nursing Division, Lyttclton, were successful in passing the home nursing examination held in December: —Misses If. Sowden, A. Knowles, E. Mailcn, A. Miller, E. Beaumont, N. Gray, and Cadet B. Morgan (Heathcote). Safe Rifled. During (Sunday night the safe and the till in one of tho bars at the Empire Hotel, London street, were rifled and the contents stolen. It is alleged that some person who was aware of the movements of the licensee, Mr J l . Bisman, obtained possession of his keys during the night and unlocked the safe and till. Notes and cheques were taken from Hie safe and a quantity of silver from the till. Yesterday morning a seaman lodging at the hotel was arrested and will be charged thid morning with theft. The money, with the exception of the silver and cheques, was recovered.

Fun in a Battleship. Although "The-Middle Watch," the English production which commences at the Harbour Eight Theatre to-morrow, was wholly filmed in a British battleship, by arrangement with the Admiralty, it is not a war picture, but one of the most cxhilerating comedies since the advent of talkies. The story is of the complications that ensue when two girls who secretly visit their officer sweethearts, are compelled by circumstances to spend the night aboard. With tho unexpected arrival of the Admiral and his discovery of the ladies in the quarters he intended occupying, the farce rises to its greatest height, and the climax is reached when the Admiral's wife arrives and finds her husband in compromising circumstances. Tho reserve plan for "The Middle Watch" is at King and Cousins.