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Shannon News, 1 February 1924, Page 3

The Supreme Court will sit at Palmcrstoh North on February sth wheu an action for alleged perjury, and which concerns this district, will he heard.

A lighthouse-keeper's life is necessarily lonely, because only at outlying points are stationed the big lights that require the attention of keepers. Therefore, the men must have hobbies to keep them occupied during the slack periods which inevitably occur, and many of them turn to gardening, it them happens to be a suitable piece oi ground available. The Pencarrow (Wellington) light-keepers have had their little plot of garden for some years, and things were literally blooming tin's season, when the recent gale from the south spoiled everything. Spray was driven inland for hundreds of feet, and soaked the foliage, which is already dying, and also covered the ground with a thick layer of salt, m which no plant can live. Thp garden is not far from the shore, so the driving of the spray so far does not emphasise the strength of the wind. The panes surrounding the light itself were thickly 'encrusted with salt, which the i keepers had to wash off every evening with fresh water. And the light is ;'.22 feet above sea-level.