HARBOUR BEACONS.
MORE ABOUT TfIE_NEW LIGHTS. To be morn explicit respecting the position of the pile beacon lights which are to be erected in the fair.vn.v leaning into Wellington Harbour, the Harbourmaster (Captain Johnston) states that one light will be erected tliree cable lengths to the north of Steeple Rock, on the eastern side of the channel, and the other (the most northerly) three cable lengths (008 yards) to the west of Ward Island. The arrangement of these lights will, according to Captain Johnston, practically clouTmo the width of the deep-water channel as far as navigators are concerncd. He explains that both lights are to bo of the occulting (hder, in order that no confusion may arise either with fixed lights ashore or the fixed light of Somes Island. He has prepared a voluminous report on the; lighting of Wellington Harbour, which,will besubmitted to the board at its next meeting.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1881, 15 October 1913, Page 7
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202HARBOUR BEACONS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1881, 15 October 1913, Page 7
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