LYTTELTON NEWS.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20788, 23 February 1933, Page 15

LYTTELTON NEWS.

SWIMMING. The Lyttelton Amateur Swimming CJub will hold championship events at Corsair Bay on Saturday afternoon. Visiting Engineers. Civil engineers attending the annual conference at Christchureli will be taken around the harbour this afternoon in Hie tug, and will also be shown the dredge Canterbury ai; work. Visit of Harbour Board. The annual meeting of the Lyttelton Harbour Board will be held at Lyttelton on Monday. After the meeting members will make an inspection of the waterfront and harbour. In tho afternoon they will be entertained at afternoon tea at Corsair Bay by members of the Lyttelton Borough Council and their wives. Scrap Jron for Japan. On Mio reclamation ground at Officers' i'oint, Lyttelton, there is a stack of more than 700 tons of strap iron awaiting shipment by the Japanese steamer Ityoka Maru, which is due in about two weeks' time. The iron has been lying at Lyttelton for several months. It consists principally of old tramway and railway rails. About half of the stack is of full-length rails, the remainder being short lengths of rail and curved and angle pieces. There are also smaller stacks of fish-plates and similar short pieces, and a number of benzine drums filled with old bolts. Yesterday several tracks of iron arrived from the Addington Railway Workshops, and it is reported that about IL'OO tons will arrive at L3'ttelton during the next week for shipment by the Kyoka Maru.