COAST NAVIGATION.
V'-.j To the Editor. ,hsir, —I do not want to take up your timel needlessly, but, seeing the wreckage onj this coast, and. be^ng. Well acquainted with' the coast myself (a dangerous coast at best), J I have .often wondered that some of our J nautical men have never suggested a bell-) bttcyfqr some of the mosjt dangerous spots,' say Waipapapa.Reef, .„Now,.<.sir*, had there' . Wen a bell-buoy there the William Akers! ..Might hare bad-a. timely warning, and" the! Srucej I make no doubt, would be still; running had such a buoy been placed off the! Beads. A bell-buoy will sound the alarm! with the least swell on, and after it has been! properly laid, the first cost would be the last j for years. They require no attention, andj there are plenty of spots suitable for buoys; —say the Brothers, Cook Strait,' Fish Reef, I Ac. As I have had over twenty years at| sea, I have experience enough to know how] great a boon such a signal in foggy weather. would am, &c, : Bell-buoy. ' Dunedin, December 27. '
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Evening Star, Issue 4316, 27 December 1876, Page 4
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180COAST NAVIGATION. Evening Star, Issue 4316, 27 December 1876, Page 4
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