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Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 62, 11 September 1908, Page 2

At Cape Foulwind last week a Barbour Board workman employed in excavation work on the recreation ground uneartlied a Maori axe and a spade guinea (coin) dated George 111., 1790. It is suggested "that some whalers may have camped there a century or more ago. There are now thirty-eight lighthouses on the coast of New Zealand and at the entrances of harbours. Their maintenance last year cost in all the sum of £16,007 17s 4d. The salaries of the attendants amounted to £9339 Is, while stores and contingencies entailed an expenditure of £4 1 joo 18s.