LYTTELTON NEWS

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26409, 1 May 1951, Page 9

LYTTELTON NEWS

BOROUGH COUNCIL MEETS A request from the Invercargill City Council for support of its proposal to secure payment for councillors on local bodies was declined by the Lyttelton Borough Council last night. The Town Clerk (Mr J. Thomson) said that at the recent conference Of municipal authorities the proposal was discussed and was rejected by a large majority. O n . tbß £ otl 2, n 01 Cr - w - Morris, sec?E'l 8 , d b ? F r ’ F - aarr€tt . the council deci?Sino.!,to support the proposal. u,5 ul *u es ’ ?®used by the'long spell of .'^ eather ’ laying drains on the reP n , ff r °uud on the reclaimed land Point in the council deciding temporarily to abandon the work. fliHn» S wHJ? orte ? tfiat the trenches were LL 1 „ g w ®ter as soon as they were be a was te of continue in the present condi»hS r \. E ' H - P au!s ?n said he hoped that the resumption of the work would not be too long delayed. It was the wrong time of the year to d The e M.v rk ’ la f r „ T J - Hempstalk. af?m- tri y w^ ( »J lr F u°' B u ri «e s) s9ld ‘hat the winter, when the weather beresume I d° re eettled the work would be a * * British Bailors’ Society fh A *V >ta t ot 18|M7 officers and men of fn!m 1 *!? ha ? t r Navs ' vlBlt « d the Seamen°s JF 1 ? at Lyttelton during the year wnued February 28, said the rewort tjueoTth© British annual meeting , Brl ‘ iah Sailors' Society held,at Lyt- - I«Y .t evening. Suopers were provided lor 10,555 men and 89 dances and social hel l Thc »nl»sloners had visited 494 ships, Sunday night religious ■eryices were attended by 1178 men Other and V rriX? er \‘i!?® arra nglng of football an 4L cri £ lt P t matches and indoor games. showed a small exeSL oi . ‘"come over expenditure. The following officers were re-elected:— board of directors: president, Mr Wallace £• K «« u «y; vice-president, Mr A. K. Dyne: treasurer, Miss W. M HatchwellMioretary, the Rev. R. J. Witty; Mesdmes R w^ erry ’>« St , a ,P D ®- Hensen, J. R. Wells, and O. W. C. Smithson, Misses T F SanderE - Messrs a W A A ; Smith, O. C. Guy, ‘nd th. Rev y F ne i:. C^ n R L Warren ’

imprisonment for Theft nn , ?, neth Alfred James Moon, an assistant steward tn the liner Rangitane apt ot the Peace, in the Lyttelton Magistrate’s Court yesterday oh six charges of theft of clothing and a handgrip of a total value of £9 9s 6d He pleaded guilty. f' J* Graham said that Moon had concealed the goods in his * ald th ?‘ 1,8 ha<s olack-outs M?dM a n 1 l? , u remert ? ber takln e the goods. stolen d nOt know fro,n whom they were

,„J bB x ’ceused was convicted and senw2?*S>lLS!^ e . mo 2 th ' l, imprisonment. He h»Z.^ r^ e<l t 0 , b ? P ut a -bard his ship before the vessel left New Zealand