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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1042, 3 February 1911, Page 5

Lieutenant J. M. Jackson, JR.N., who arrivedbv the Jlaheno from Sydney en Monday last, has lost no time m commencing operations .for the murm of Auckland harbour, as a resnlt of the solicitations made to the Admiralty bj the Harbour Board after tlie striking of the Kaipara upon a rock in the Baiigitoto Channel about.a year »©• ant Jackson, who belongs to H.il.h. lantome stationed at Hobart, started Ins investigations yesterday morning accompanied by two specialists Hit b> the sat"c, ship, a couple of launches and boats' crows being provided by tho Harbour Board The. surveying officer, seen by a fepre entative of the "Herald," said the rirWinal nart of the survey was tho Fh rough examination of the Itangitoto rhannel, as blastinsr operations had lately been carried out there for tho improvement of the channel. The work would We about three or four months, and would probably be earned as far to tho westward as Kauri Point, the northern limit bein" an cast and west line one mile from Hangitoto beacon. Lieutenant Tickson's last visit to the Dominion was as midshipman in the Epyal Albert ten years a»o. and,.with, the exception of two vears his t' in<) has toon OCCU P IC(t sin ce then'in surveying operations on the north-west coast of Australia and the Barrier Reef.