COOK STRAIT NAVIGATION.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1494, 17 July 1912, Page 7

COOK STRAIT NAVIGATION.

' .'ANOTHER LIGHT PROMISED. 'It is now nearly three years ago sines , over fifty sea Captains, trading in and out of Wellington, declared that the in.: * stallation of a light in or about the region of Tongue Point or Cape Terawhili would be ofSunmenso value to mariners.' ;! The the present lighthouses in Cook Strait from Tongue Point are:— The Brothers, IV4 miles; ■Pcncurroiv, !IJ inilcs; Cape Campbell, 281 Wiles. It is . considered by the Marino 'Department'. that in clear weather the Strait is well lighted. It is irf thick or foggy weather, that difficulties arise. At Mich times a ! majority of thesn lights, if not ail of_ ' them, ..are,' invisible' 'Jo., ; vessels <strikiii<r' . from 'Tory Channel across tho Strait, and, with ', a.,.dnn'g'e'r'ousVJtidc/jsetting against • ■' ■• them, these ships are'apt to lie driven so far to tho'north'As to lose any chance ' 'i of seeing Pencarrow, owiiig to its being cub off : by. Sinclair- Head,- i-Tlie site for a light has not yet been.definitely select- . •■ cd, nor has it been.:.decided whether the J light shall. bo ". of; "the - first or second,-. >, order. This will depend very larecl.v "■ ,-i •', upon the site that.it adopted. ; Tho Hon. F. M. B. Fisher (Minister ' for Marine) ; stated yesterday that, in order to ensure,'.' j as far as lay in the Government's power, that no similar disaster to that-of the Penguin should take place for want of --;':: expenditure, the sum'of, .£2OOO would bo' , i placed iijKm the Estimates to provide tho cost'of a"light; At as oarly a date as possible a ■sito'Will-bo selected, and the ,work .will . ,bo,.p.ufc in hand. ,