CAPE MARIA LIGHT
Move to Mainland NEW RADIO BEACON. Good progress was being made with the scheme for removing the CapeMaria van Diemen lighthouse to Cape Reinga and installing a radio beacon, said the Minister of Marine, the Hon. D. G McMillan, in an interview in Auckland at the week-end.
The new light and beacon, the Minister said, would be in the mainland about three miles north and a little east "of the small island on which the present light was situated. An access road 10 miles long had beembuilt between the new site and the northern end of the Ninety-Mil e Beach, and tne building of the lighthouse tower, cottages and power-house was well advanced.
The optical system of the existing light would be transferred to the new lower, but electricity would be Installed in place of the_oil burner. The radio direction-finding plant yyould be automatically operated and would supersede the small apparatus that had been in use for some time.
A small automatic light was to be provided on the mainland immediately behind Cape Maria van Diemen for the guidance of small-north-ward bound vessels if they should keep so close inshore that the Cape Reinga light wa s masked by intervening hills. ,
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Grey River Argus, 2 August 1940, Page 8
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