LYTTELTON NEWS

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 21024, 28 November 1933, Page 19

LYTTELTON NEWS

PERSONAL Mr F. E. Sutton is at present a patient in Lewisham Hospital. At the meeting of the borough council last .evening a resolution was passed expressing sympathy with Mr Sutton and a hope for his speedy recovery. Relief Workers at Diamond Harbour. At the meeting of the borough council last evening Cr. Sinclair said that it had been, reported to him that recently Crs. Gower and Fowles had, in their'. duties as councillors, inspected the relief work at Diamond Harbour. They had met about 12 of the relief workers in a shed there, and the men had asked if they were getting a holiday on show day. Cr. Gower had told them that they would have to work and obtain time off afterwards. Cr. Gower: I said nothing of the kind. Continuing, Cr. Sinclair said he would like to ask Cr. Fowles if it was correct that he told the men that they should go on strike. Cr. Gower asked permission to reply first. He said that he was present when the men asked about show day. He did not reply, as it was for the unemployment committee to deal with. Cr. Fowles said the allegation was rather amusing, to say the least. "I certainly did not imply to the men that they should go on strike. I never used the word. I don't recommend men to go on strike. It's too absurd," he said. Cr. Sinclair: I have more than one man to tell me that the words Cr. Fowles used were: "The best thing y°u men can do is to go on strike." The Mayor said Cr. Fowles had denied using the words, and his assurance must be accepted. Cr Sinclair said he would accept Cr. Fowles's assurance. The Cenotaph. At the meeting of the borough council last night Cr. Neville asked if any funds were available for cleaning the cenotaph. , The Mayor said the memorial funds were exhausted, but ho thought the council could have the work done. ine borough engineer was asked to report on the matter. Sunday Tennis. After having apparently been disposed of two meetings ago, when the council granted the Te Whaka Tennis Club, which leases its grounds from the council, permission to play on Sundays, the matter was again before the council last evening. At the last meeting of the council, after hearing a deputation of residents of West Lyttelton, who opposed Sunday tennis, Cr. A. H. Fowles gave notice of motion to rescind the resolution permitting Sunday play. Cr. Fowles said he was in a peculiar situation regarding the motion, in view of what had taken place at the Elmwood -Park in Christchurch, and of a judgment given some years ago in regard to Sunday golf at Miramar, Wellington. He would ask the council to rescind the previous resolution, in order to leave the minute-book clear, as the aouncil had no power to prohibit Sunday play. He moved that in view of the legal position the resolution granting permission for Sunday play be rescinded. Cr. Halliday: Then if the council rescind it, the club can still proceed with Sunday play? Cr. Fowles said the council had no power to prevent it, unless it could be shown that the play created a nuisance in the neighbourhood. Cr. Fenton said if they were not sure of the position then it was a waste of time discussing it. He moved as an amendment that legal advice be obtained. The Mayor said that a deputation had opposed Sunday play, on the grounds that it was a nuisance. The amendment was carried. BOROUGH COUNCIL The Lyttelton Borough Council met last evening. Present were the Mayor (Mr W. T. Lester), Crs. R. Fenton, J. N. Neville, G. Halliday, A. G. Sinclair, A. H. Fowles, D. E. L. Collett, E. H. Green, W. D. Gower, and A. T. E. Miller.

An invitation from the Convent of Mercy for the Mayor and councillors to be present at the laying of the foundation stone of the new convent on Sunday afternoon, was accepted The Lytteiton sub-centre of St. John Ambulance Association was granted permission to hold a street day collection on Friday next. Mrs E. R. McCombs, M.P., wrote acknowledging the council's representations regarding the Harbour Amendment Bill, 1933, and stating that she would support the council's views. A grant of £2 2s was made to the funds of the Cholmondeley Memorial Home. The council decided to erect a fence on the bank at the rear of the shelter shed at Corsair Bay, as suggested by the caretaker, who said that last season five accidents had occurred through persons falling down the bank. On the recommendation of the estates committee, the erection of lights on the beach at Corsair Bay was held over for consideration until repairs to the shelter shed were carried out. The Lytteiton Returned Soldiers' Association applied for a section of consecrated ground -in the public cemetery, to be set aside for the burial of returned soldiers. The association undertook to care for the section if granted. The application was referred to the general purposes committee. In reply to a letter from the council asking that the grounds round the pavilion at the Te Whaka Tennis Club's courts at West Lytteiton should be cleared of grass and weeds, the secretary (Miss C. Williams) wrote stating that the matter had been attended to. The writer further stated that during the last six years the club had spent £212 on the maintenance of the courts. The council was asked to fence the property to prevent children from making a playground of the courts, and a request that the flooring of the verandah of the pavilion should be repaired was also made. Cr. Gower moved that the repairs be done as requested. Cr. Fenton moved as an amendment that the matter be referred to the general purposes committee. The amendment was carried. The Lytteiton Ladies' Swimming Club was granted the use of six dressing sheds at Corsair Bay on Tuesday afternoons during the season. An invitation from the club for the Mayor and councillors to attend the opening of the season on Saturday afternoon was accepted. The Lytteiton unemployed organisation asked for the council's sympathetic consideration of the possibilities of making some amicable arrangement regarding wet working days. On the recommendation of the works committee it was decided to inform the organisation that the council was satisfied that its officers were giving every possible consideration to the unemployed. On the day referred to, when the boat left, it was not raining, and the indications were for a fine day. Further, that the distance the men had to walk was greatly exaggerated, the distance being nearer three-quarters of a mile than one and a half miles, as stated. The clerk of the Heathcote county (Mr J. Veale) forwarded a copy of a resolution of the Heathcote Burgesses' Association, asking that the Lytteiton Borough Council should cover its reservoir at Heathcote, as an open reservoir did not lend itself to purity. In its resolution the association also stated that in the summer.months the water supplied at Heathcote _ valley