LIGHTHOUSE ON TUAHINE POINT.
A party including the Mayor and Messrs F. C, Cramond, G. Eliott, F. Parker, and Captains Cumming and Tucker, wbtfA went out to prospect for a lighthouse site yesterday, decided on the extreme end of Tuahine Point at a locality about 100 feet above the sea level. The point here is very narrow, so much so that it will be necessary to level a space, say 20ft square, on which to erect the light. From this it will be necessary to scarp a track, say Ift wide, by which to communicate and to carry the necessary fuel, etc., to the lighthouse. It will be possible from Mr W. Cooper's, Wainui, and from Mr Lysnar’e, Makarori, to see the light, and aWfflth these places are in telephonic communication with Gisborne we should at once, be informed if the light were not burning. It would also he visible to all vessels coming from Napier, and could bo seen from the anchorage hero if a slight expense were incurred in levelling a part of the razor-back behind the light. We highly commend the action taken in this matter, and trust it will be vigorously pushed on. No greater boon could be given to the sea going public than the proposed light, nor need the cost be anything like common- fjieurate with the great advantages it would confer,
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1023, 16 October 1903, Page 2
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