DUNEDIN HARBOUR.
i (BY-TELEGRAPH —SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) ' .'...- Duncdin, February 23. Shipmasters say that the' mishap to the Ulimaroa has .-emphasised ' the -need for ' a light -being placcd on. Goat Island; in such a position that: it will' become visible when a ship, coming up the: Dunedin Harbour at ...night-time, has .reached the ■' fairway -bethe - island. ~: A vessel .after passing Port .Chalmers steers for the light 011 Quarantine Island, overlooking the channel between,it and Goat Island. ; "At: present a shipmaster has to dopend'on his,own judgment •as to. when; ho has, .'approached' neiu ; enough to t this light to justify him' in . putting the helhi ovor ahd striking thrjuch the tide-swept channel.. A .light on Goat' Island, placed,so that it would become visible when a ship had '' approached near enough .to tho Quarantirio Island light to be. in tiio fairway, would simplify tho navigating of the 360-ft. channel that separates the lslanda. . :|
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 440, 24 February 1909, Page 8
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149DUNEDIN HARBOUR. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 440, 24 February 1909, Page 8
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