DANGEROUS NAVIGATION.
TO THK MHTOB. Sir — Having already hod the unpleasant experienoo of being a passenger in a steamer wnioh atrnok the roolca and foundered, I am perhaps more keenly alive to the dangers of navigation than the ordinary travelling public, and more anxious to see the safety of passengers secured. I am a constant traveller between Wellington, NeUon, and the West Coast, and I consider the route the steamers take between those two rooks at Jackson Head a dangerous one in its present unlighted condition. How the oaptains manage to find that little beaoon is a puzzle to me. I cannot sleep of a dark or rough night until I know the boat has safely passed it. I understand the Marine Department were asked to make the beaoon more conspiouona, or to put a light on it. Apparently the matter has been lost Bight of. This amounts to most onlpable negligence. The shipmasters should take the matter up, and I trust a more able pen than mine will keep the ball rolling. Thanking you for having allowed me to warn the travelling pnblio of the danger they run, I am, *0., Commercial Travillir.
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Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 51, 28 August 1895, Page 4
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194DANGEROUS NAVIGATION. Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 51, 28 August 1895, Page 4
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