An unusual school holiday will start today for Grant Pearce, aged nine, of Invercargill. For some time Grant has had a passionate interest in lighthouses and this morning he will wake up in one. He has been invited to spend his school holidays at the Cape Egmont lighthouse. It started when Grant read that an airstrip was to be built at Centre Island lighthouse. His imagination kindled with accounts of the raging winds which reach 150 milea an hour in thia exposed area, he wrote to the lighthouse keeper (Mr W. Walter). Grant did not know his name the first time he wrote, and addressed the letter. "Dear Mr Lighthouse." But the result was the tame. A firm pen friendship grew between the two. Not long afterwards Mr Walter was transferred to Cape Egmont lighthouse and Grant has been invited to snend the holidays with Mr Walter and his wife. He flew by Friendship from Invercargill to New Plymouth yesterday.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29508, 9 May 1961, Page 14
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