LYTTELTON NEWS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18412, 19 June 1925, Page 13

LYTTELTON NEWS.

Social Club Dance. Although arranged at somewhat shirt notice, tho dance given by the s.s. Rotorua Social Clab in tho Excelsior Hall last evening was very successful, there being a goo.; attendance. The hall was decorated in the ship's colours, and the latest London dance music, played by the Social Club orchestra, ?dded much to the enjoyment of the dancers. Harbour Light Theatre. "Secrets of the Night." starring Madga Bollamv and James Kirkwood, will be repeated "i-t the Harbour Light Theatre to-nighr, together with a Century comedy and an Inr.ernatiiuinl News. To-morrow, "Th? Spoilers." a X.itiouul special production ot" the film version of Rex Beach's exciting novel, will bo screened. The cast is ln all-star one, including Milton .Sills, Anna Q. Nilsson, .Mitchell Lewis, and Kurd Sterling. The" supporting programme consists of a ctfroedy. scenic, and Gazette. At the evening session Messrs Mctiili (tenor) and Scot: (baritone), both of uhow have recently a;' peared at this theatre separately, will (~• heard in duets and solo numbers. A Hard Prost. YeslTdav morning saw The hardest of the wiiiter. so far. in Lyttelton. The roofs of buildings ;-nd th? wharves were whi(.\ •\nd the steep asphalt footpaths in the upper part of the 'own were rather dangerous :•■ pedestrians, lleports which came through Jrom the city during the early morning woro | id the effect that the frost was much mure I seveio in Christchurch, the proximity i,? I Lvttclton to the sea. n« doubt, tempering the severity of t!io frost considerably. It is noticeable in Lyttelton that few servi--wat«r-pip«s are protected frrm frost i:s ;!ie>are in Christchurch, yet frozen pipes are almost unknown in the port School Affairs. A. deputation consisting of Mr J. MeCombs, M I*., Mr V. D. Gower (chairman of the Lyttelton District High School Committee), »r<! the Re*, A. J. Petrie, a member of the School Committee, waited on tho Kducation Boar.l , vxtterday v>'th reference lo the iaoler'; ]ir,u»<. j " As the result of tho deputation the Ertn- i ration Board will inform the Minister of I l'.ducation (Sir James Parr) that the Board I is in iaToui oi the house being handed, t»{