LIGHTHOUSE WANTED

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 148, 19 December 1929, Page 10

LIGHTHOUSE WANTED

AGITATION WILL REVIVE

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to ''The Evening Post.")

DUNEDIN, This Day. For many years an agitation has been made by the residents of Catlins for a lighthouse at Long Point, and the disaster to the Manuka will revive the agitation. The nearest lighthouse is at Nugget Point. Along the coast there are many rugged points and reefs, traps for an unwary master of a ship that has been caught in an easterly set.

"We have always reckoned that a lighthouse should be built at the point, and this terrible happening will show the need for it"," said one of the Eatanui settlers to a reporter to-day.

Long Point is one of the most desolate and inaccessible points on the coast. It is nearly twenty miles from Owaka, and beyond Eatanui ovtr a road almost impassable for motor-cars in wet weather. From the point, the Nuggets can be seen far to the northward, at least fifteen miles away. The point rises sheer from the sua to a height of 200 feet. To the south the coast sweeps inwards, with a sandy beach. Long Point is a huge blocK standing high above the sea, and from its lofty top a view is obtainable right down to the Tahakopa Eiver and beyond to Chaslands in the south, and as far north as the Nuggets. A long nay off the point breakers are to be seen, denoting the presence of reefs. Eight under the main point the reef runs out for a few yards, and it was on this that the Manuka came to grief.