To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 41, 19 July 1845, Page 3

To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator.

Sir, — In your last number occurred a suggestion that deserves more consideration, I think, than you bestowed on il : I mean, the substitution of an efficient haibouv establishment in the place of a highly paid and incompetent Superintendent. It is calculated that a lighthouse could be kept up at an expense not exceeding j£2oo a-year. It is confessed that the office of Superintendent, as at present occupied, is to all useful purposes a mere sinecure. We might for the same expenditure have one lighthouse at the Heads, another ai. Cape Terawaite, besides a couple of pilots. Had this been sooner done, the late frightful destruction of property by the wreck of the Tyne would in all probability have been averted. The merchants should bestir themselves to effect this by petitioning Captain Fitzroy, oorr r if they despair of effecting it by that means, prepare to memorialize his successor on the subject directly he arrives at Port Nicholson. I am, Sir, "^Your obedient Servant, * -* One of the Uninsured. Wellington, July 16, 1845.