DANGERS OF NAVIGATION.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 34, 23 January 1912, Page 5

DANGERS OF NAVIGATION.

i LIGHT WANTED ON THE THREE [ KINGS. | il-E MINISTER EOi? MARINES ! REFUSAL. i Atickland. Jan. 22. | Interviewed at Rotorua week, I th'? Hon. J. A. Millar stated that there would be no light placed on the ThreeKings. but an effort was being made in conjunction to provide for iog-signalhng in cor.metion with the steamship companies. In the meantime the Di’partI incut would proceed without delay to • erect a new light at the North Cape. This utterance of the Minister foi Marine has apparently aroused considerable feeling among the master mariners non in port. A meeting was helu t;.e other afternoon, when there were I present : i*b* ■ captains, mostlt ot I oeea.n-gmng '■■•■•B. Captain Entwistle. ■ .if tl:e '.’ietoria, pre"'id 1. j Captain Ro.ss explained what lie had id-one in forwarding matters cmiiierten I with the petitum for additional lighthug fa'-ilih"'. Tit.- ready way in vrhir-h -do id iij:i. )u had «’ shuvect ; <ii T b /'r.‘ was a r./f'iaix of 11 nr. 11 i;ni

i amomz o<<"in-g,,'vg r.ui--it".s. He reno i the petition which had hern drawn up ! for presentation to the House of Repre- ' -entativi -. poi ntirg nut that the sea- ; berm' tratlic th? ::-n : - a part <>t i the Dominion we-' iner,.":sing to such an est.■ tit as v' i' ■ --oast nortbI <>.' Anv’dand wg- ; iwt stithciently i’gb.t-d for the safety of live-, and proj ;,J--ty ont-’is'.od to tit? care of the peti- : :.>:i ■■• I : v '.;■'■:>■! th • ■■'. f.v • a i ftrst-eiass light nd fog signal [ Three Kings, alo tinware hod lights on i R-t-k '.-.-■••tba-u-d e: Kawatt r.--!i't’.d. < CMon-'l I-'-Gul at the s>ir r h >'’>i rm??' t.i Gidi. l’_m • :?. ■ ie I :: 1i Th,, .- - d..'. ! ?; 5 n was