ELECTRIC LIGHT FOR WELLINGTON AND AUCKLAND BATTERIES.
IBY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, Monday. The Defence Minister has now received from Home the electric light apparatus to be used in connection with defence works at this port. It consists of an arc light of Brush's patent, and is of 5000 candle power. It is movable, with very powerful reflectors, so that the rays can be thrown in any required direction. It is guaranteed to show clearly a small white buoy at a distance of 2000 yards. The dynamo will be worked by steam. It is intended to erect the apparatus at Fort Ballance, where it will command the entrance to the Heads, and the whole ot the harbour way up to and beyond Ward's Island, thus enabling the batteries to have a full view ol any vessel entering the Heads, or trying co make her way into the harbor. A similar apparatus has been obtained for Auckland.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7694, 20 July 1886, Page 5
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