LYTTELTON NEWS

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25226, 3 July 1947, Page 4

LYTTELTON NEWS

SHIP’S OFFICER FINED Bernard Miles Postlethwaite, second officer of the overseas ship Derrycunihy. was charged in the Magistrates Court, Lyttelton, yesterday, before Messrs W. C. Cleary and T. A. Mahar, Justices of the Peace, with stealing an alarm clock and 14 articles of underwear of a total value of £5, the property of Noeline Mavis Bisman. He pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergeant F. Hayhurst said that the accused had gone up to a bedroom in an hotel and had taken the articles. The police made inquiries' and Postlethwaite had admitted taking them. He had been drinking at the time. The accused told the Court that he had acted while under the influence of liquor. He expressed regret for the trouble he had caused. The master of the ship said the accused was a reliable officer with a good record. If he were taken out of the ship it might cause inconvenience and delay. He asked that the Court impose a fine. Remarking that it was not desired to keep the accused in the country, the Bench convicted him and fined him £lO. Remanded Bruce Macdonald Cameron, charged with a breach of his probation order in that- he had failed to report as directed, was remanded to appear at Christchurch to-morrow. School War Memorial A memorial plaque, mounted beneath the school bell in the playground, and a roll of honour of former pupils who died in the recent war, will be unveiled at the Lyttelton Main School on Sunday tit 2.30 p.m. District Nursing Service The following officers were elected at the annual meeting of the Lyttelton branch of the Nurse Maude District Nursing Association:—president, Mrs W. T. Lester; secretary, Mrs R. T. Ings; committee, Mesdames E. H. Green, H. Moss, E. Veal. H. G. Banfield, S. Leeder, F. Barrett, W. Huston, R. Sproule,-J. Duncan, and R. Phillips, and Miss L. Huston. The annual report said that in the two years she had been in Byttelton, the district nurse, Mrs G. Tait, had made 3527 visits to homes and had attended 601 cases at the casualty ward. Upham Clock Fund July 16 to 23 will be Upham Clock Week in Lyttelton, and in that week collectors will call at all houses and business places to collect subscriptions for the Dr. Charles H. Upham Town Clock. This was decided at a meeting of the town clock committee last night. On behalf of the women’s committee, Mrs D. Boyd reported, that a complete coverage of the town had been arranged. It was expected that the Diamond Harbour Burgesses’ Association would collect in that district. An appeal to residents of Heathcote Valley will be made later. Personal Believed to be the oldest person to have travelled by air from Britain to New Zealand, Mrs James Swan arrived in LyttelTuesday from Edinburgh to live with her son, Mr R. Phillips, st. David street, Lyttelton, whom she last saw 37 yearB , a /°- Mrs Swan is 89 years old and left Poole by air on June 18 and arrived at Darwin at 4 p.m. last Saturday and at Auckland on Monday. Mrs Swan is feeling none the worse for her journey, but has been affected by the heavy frosts of the last two days.