SOAMES ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE.
[by TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
Wellington, Tuesday. A test as to the advisability of increasing the power of tho Soamoa' Island light was made last night by the s.s. Tutanokai with several experts on board, and as the night was at times hazy they were afforded practical proof of the inefficiency of the present light. When the steamer was about a couple of miles from Pencarrow Head the light on Soames' Island became obscured. The vessel's head was turned to port, and ib was not for some time that the light was pickod up. The general impression of exports is that the light should be increased from a fifth-order light to a second-order and the breadth of the white section which marks the safe passage up the channel lessened.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10428, 28 April 1897, Page 5
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131SOAMES ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10428, 28 April 1897, Page 5
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