KARORI ROCK LIGHT

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2173, 11 June 1914, Page 6

KARORI ROCK LIGHT

WORKMEN'S Dlt-TICULT TASK,

Heavy southerly Weathq* has inter* fered to a serioas extent with tho .erection of the. Karon Hock lighthouse, which was commenced sojno months ago. Advantage has. bison taken of every fine day, however, and of northerly Weather, when the rock is sheltered,, to jrasli. ahead with the work, and the foundations havo now lwc® prasStieaHy «m» pl-otod to a point above high-water mark. A good deal of work had to be doKO below this point in the way af constructing foundations for tho fcrro-coiiereto tower, The. oomant-wgrk of the fonii* datioft courses was wasted away two or throe times before the cement had time to set properly. Some, of tho timber si tho ca&mg' in which tfeo eoi.iere.ta is moulded was wastied up on to the beach. As before, the work will be pushed ahead oh days when tho weather makes it possible, but at ail tin)es it will bo interrupted in heavy southerly wt-atluff. At such times 1 tsbe wavos dasii 'tight '.o«ef the'-;lock., afld. it wouid by unsafe to allow men to remain iiicrc, even when tho tower has risen considerably' above tho pcint r.ow reached. Some months yet - will be required, to complete the tower, but the installation of the. light itself will occupy or.lv fl few da,ys. Katori Rodfc is to bo equipped with an atrtomatie ligbt, atid the tower ril not be is habited.