CASTLEPOINT LIGHTHOUSE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10653, 7 June 1912, Page 5

CASTLEPOINT LIGHTHOUSE

; ' SOME PARTICULARS. In the foundry yard df Messrs S. Jjuke and Co., Ltd., Victoria Street, W.elEngton;, may at present be seen the new oaislMvron 1 (lighthouse for Cashpoint hi process of erection. TJio lighthouse, which is to be 60ft in ; height, is 'being cast in ten, rings of | «x feet each' (each ring having twelve sections). The diameter of the Jight- | liocuse at tth'e base is 18ft, and at the j fcqp -(the lantern tower) fen licet. The «ast-iron.' plates .aevraige about an iatib. in thickness, .being slightly heavier at the bottom than at the top. Instead of the edges of it-lie plates being aiand-chipped, they -have been milled hy a machine made by Mr Luke junior, wTikJh makes .perfectly smooth »nds iti a fraction of the time'occupier! iby -manual labour in -effecti'tig a much (rougher finish: Interior platforms are it© foe built at intervafe, wit.li mv hion'. stairway zig-zagging to the top. It is expected that the lighthouse will Iba finished at tbe yard towards the end df tbe month. Then, after inspection, fit -will be talken to ipieces, and reerected at Castlepoint;, there to re.mr.un lor many ysears as the, guide and Mend of tihe .''.ships that pass in the liight."