HAWERA'S BEACON
NOW IN OPERATION
A "notice to mariners" notifying the erection of a permanent lighted beacon in Hawera on a tower on a site approximately 350 feet above sea level was gazetted recently. The light is to burn each night from sunset till 2 a.m.,----and is visible to seaward for a considerable distance..
Last week the secretary of the Hawera Jubilee Committee received a cable message from Sir Charles Kingsford Smith,, who is due to arrive at New Plymouth early in the New Tear on his second transtasman flight, stating that he welcomed the inauguration of the beacon. "If overtaken br darkness/ cabled Sir Charles, !' I shah the tower of light***
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 148, 20 December 1932, Page 7
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112HAWERA'S BEACON Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 148, 20 December 1932, Page 7
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