LYTTELTON NEWS

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16157, 11 March 1918, Page 9

LYTTELTON NEWS

GOLF CLUB. The opening of tho Lyttelton Golf Club's season took place at Chajteris Bay on Saturday afternoon, there being a large attendance of club numbers and visitors, who wore convoyed t<> Ihp bay on th» 6ieamer Pliant. After Mr Orton Bradley had declared t!ie season open, several competitions took place, resulting as follow :—Driving: Alias 1 E. Orton Bradley (winner). Putting: Mrs -Parsons (winner). The winners in the men's competitions were an follows: — Driving: .7. Stokes. Approaching: C. M'.uiey. Puttiusr: Orton Bradley. The afternoon's eports terminated v.'ith a 1-ba!l game around the course among members and visitors. The weather was raild, and all present thoroughly .enjoyed the recreation and trip across the harbour. THE PICTURES. "The Haunting Shadow," an interesting picture-play, starring Kitty Gordon. was shown at the Harbour Light Picture Theatre on Saturday afternoon and evening, and will be repeated this evening. An Annette Kellerman picture, "Tho Daughter of the Gods," will be presented at ono matinee session and one evening session to-morrow. The management h:vvo been successful in securing Mary Pickford's latest film, entitled "The Young American," for Easter Monday. This is the picture, it is stated, that tho Germans in America tried to stop. POLL FOR LICENSING COMMITTEE. To-morrow being election day for the Licensing Committee of the Lyttelton Licensing District, all hotels will be closed in tho port from mid-day. JUMBLE SALE. A jumble sale was held in tho Methodist Church schoolroom on Saturday afternoon and evening in aid of tho prize fund for tho chrysanthemum show to be held next month. There was a largo attendance, and the various 6talls were well patronised, the total proceeds amounting to i'lß 12». SUNDAY TRAINS TO LYTTELTON. TO THE EDITOR OF "TFIE THESS." Sir, —When, I ask, is Lyttelton to get a fair deal from the Railway Department with regard to Sunday traffic? Surely with the evidence before them thsy must sec tho necessity of a better service t-o the part. At present the arrangement is that the ferntrain loavefl ChristchureH empty, calls at Woolston for milk for th? port, and comes down without s:nglo passenger. It would not be very difficult for tho Department to allow passengers to travel to Lvtt-elton, leaving ChristcJiure'i about S.SO a.m. by the ferry train, and Lj'ttelton passengers could come up .by. .the train on its return from the eteamcr. A return service could be run, leaving _Chri3teliurch at 3 p.m. and Lyttelton at 5.30. The present method of getting from Christchurch to the port is bv tram to 1 Heatncotc bridge, with a subsequent walk ! of .half an hour to the tunnel at Heathcote and a further half-hour through the tunnel in the dark, unless you arc provided with a light. Anjl ndw the Railway Department have placed notices at both entrances of the tunnel forbidding pedestrians permission to i go through. So the only way left, for those who wish to get to the port is by tram to Sumner, with a further two hours' w u Jk across Evans's Paes to Lyttelton. Whilst the residents of Christchurch have the privilege of travelling by tram to the seneidc, it seems hard that the port residents have no cnance o t visiting their friends, or to see the sick m the. Hospital. litis war muv continue for some time y 6 t, and Ido not think it fair that we should be isolated in the manner wc. are. I sincerely trust that the Lyttelton Borough Council will make an effort to move the powers in authority to get better facilities for the public in Sunday train service.—Yours, etc., SEA-DOG.