WORKING TEE MANUKAU BAB: INTERESTING VIEWS OP AUCKLAND'S WESTERN HARBOUR AT ONEHUNGA. Owing to some alteration in the positions of the banks in the main and south channels of the Manukau, the Auckland Harbour Board decided to re-survey the channels, and the work was recently carried out under the superintendence of the Board's harbourmaster, Captain H. W. Sergeant. TTna fine set of views was taken during the operations. Details are:—L The lighthouse on the South Head of the Manukau. 2. The steamer Rarawa, outward bound from Onehunga, nearing the bar. 3. Heaving the lead during the survey work on the bar. 4. Fixing positions by sextant angles. 5. View of the main channel, south channel, and bar, taken from the signal station at the South Head. Owing to shoaling the south channel has been closed to traffic. 6. The shifting beacon at the South Head. 7. The signal station and signalman's house at Manukau Heads. 8. ParatuW and North Head. At the time H.M.S. Orpheus was wrecked the signal station , stood on the point in the foreground, but it was cut down by the natives during the Maori war. 9. The signalman at Manukau Heads watching a vessel crossing the bar. 10. A fresh sou'-wester on the Manukau Bar. 11. Captain Gibbons, harbourmaster at Onehunga, jotting down the soundings during the survey work.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17294, 18 October 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)

WORKING TEE MANUKAU BAB: INTERESTING VIEWS OP AUCKLAND'S WESTERN HARBOUR AT ONEHUNGA. Owing to some alteration in the positions of the banks in the main and south channels of the Manukau, the Auckland Harbour Board decided to re-survey the channels, and the work was recently carried out under the superintendence of the Board's harbourmaster, Captain H. W. Sergeant. TTna fine set of views was taken during the operations. Details are:—L The lighthouse on the South Head of the Manukau. 2. The steamer Rarawa, outward bound from Onehunga, nearing the bar. 3. Heaving the lead during the survey work on the bar. 4. Fixing positions by sextant angles. 5. View of the main channel, south channel, and bar, taken from the signal station at the South Head. Owing to shoaling the south channel has been closed to traffic. 6. The shifting beacon at the South Head. 7. The signal station and signalman's house at Manukau Heads. 8. ParatuW and North Head. At the time H.M.S. Orpheus was wrecked the signal station , stood on the point in the foreground, but it was cut down by the natives during the Maori war. 9. The signalman at Manukau Heads watching a vessel crossing the bar. 10. A fresh sou'-wester on the Manukau Bar. 11. Captain Gibbons, harbourmaster at Onehunga, jotting down the soundings during the survey work.