THE LIGHTS ON THE COAST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12303, 22 June 1903, Page 5

THE LIGHTS ON THE COAST.

PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS. [.BY TELEGRAPH.— OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, Saturday. The Hon. W. Hall-Jones said yesterday to a deputation that he hoped in the course of another 12 months to greatly improve the lights on the coast of New Zealand. The Kitson light has had some very successful trials in the Old Country, and he had ordered one lamp aa an experiment. It was claimed that it gave a better light r.ud was less expensive than the present lamps. If the Kitson light was a success the whole of the New Zealand lighthouses would bo fitted with it.

In .speaking to the same deputation, according to the Post, the Premier stated that while lie was in the Smith a gentleman waited upon him with the information that he had invented an instrument to ha placed in the bow of vessels that would indicate their distance from land. This invention would do away with the necessity for lighthouses. The genius came from the West Coast. "He is not tho first from that pint of the country," said Mr. Sed'lon, "and at first I was inclined to think he was a person with a very free imagination. However, ho pointed out that the atmosphere near the land is quite different from that at sea, that sound will rebound from the land, and that his instrument will jnako and exhibit records of these things. The inventor brought recommendations from practical men, and there may be something in it."