THREE KINGS LIGHT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1386, 12 March 1912, Page 6

THREE KINGS LIGHT.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Auckland, March 10. The statement made by tho Minister for Marine (the Hon. J. A. Millar) that experts were agreed thnt inaccessibility ]i tide it practically impossible to erect anil maintain a lighthouse satisfactorily on tho (freat King, does not meet with the. approval of master mariners in Auckland. Captain Ross, in discussing tho matter this morning, said that the Minister had been absolutely misinformed when he decltu'cil tho 13ii» Kin!; to be inaccessible nml unsuitable. Tho opinion of those who were conversant with the locality was (hat the site was an ideal one. One had only to look at the eh'iirt to see that there were two good anchorages and four landingplaces. Theie were situated nt different points on tho i=land, and were easy of access in any weather. There whs always one safe landing, and he had prepared a plan which would be submitted with a petition to Parliament showing that tho eito •■Vμ an ideal ono, and nii.vtliiiijr but inaccessible. In this petition it would be set forth that the first and most urgent work far the safety of ocean-bound vessels coming to Auckland is the erection, on some- suitable part of tho T'hTco Kings, of a first-class light and fog signal, and that the Biff King is admirably adapted for a lighthouse station having—(a) suitable elevated sites running up to 'JOOft.; (l>) good landing-places and boat landings, some of which are available nt any stato of the wind or tide; (c) a, frcsli walor, stream ensuring a constant supply. ,