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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 81, 3 April 1908, Page 6

Inquiries have been made by a "New Zealand Times" representative with a view to ascertaining the amount of literature which lighthouse-keepers receive. The Marine Department delivers to each lighthouse ten magazines each month, and every lighthouse gets from the Department thirty books a year. These books are circulated in rotation, and eventually find a resting-place in the libraries of the lighthouses. In addition, each keeper gets from the Department a weekly nawspaper. Scores of books are also sent by thoughtful individuals yearly by post to various lighthouses. No postage is charged on these books. Boxes of discarded magazines from clubs and libraries are frequently placed on board the Government steamer for dcliv- *|£ H-Whoußei. The majority =LtT _f ithouses "c in touch with settlements, and, excepting such l_r_ti o^ucktand 6 r at *<*«&*««, -or! i worfdS \ Tf are closer t0 the world than hundreds of backblock set; WOL__7S SCHNAPPS fortifies the hgtem -against climatic change^ l