WORK OF THE GOVERNMENT STEAMER TUTANEKAh MAINTAINING THE LIGHTS AND BUOYS MARKING THE ENTRANCES TO AUCKLAND. Left: Overhauling the automatic light on Canoe Rock, north of Tiritiri Island. The supply of gas to the lamp is automatically controlled by mechanism sensitive to light, so that as daylight fades the valves are opened and the gas is lighted by a pilot burner, closing again when darkness passes. Lights of this type operate for several months without attention. Centre: Replenishing the gas supply for the automatic beacon at Ponui Island (the Sandspit light). Right: The buoy at D'Urville Rocks hauled aboard for cleaning and painting, —staff Photographer.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19372, 6 July 1926, Page 13
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105WORK OF THE GOVERNMENT STEAMER TUTANEKAh MAINTAINING THE LIGHTS AND BUOYS MARKING THE ENTRANCES TO AUCKLAND. Left: Overhauling the automatic light on Canoe Rock, north of Tiritiri Island. The supply of gas to the lamp is automatically controlled by mechanism sensitive to light, so that as daylight fades the valves are opened and the gas is lighted by a pilot burner, closing again when darkness passes. Lights of this type operate for several months without attention. Centre: Replenishing the gas supply for the automatic beacon at Ponui Island (the Sandspit light). Right: The buoy at D'Urville Rocks hauled aboard for cleaning and painting, —staff Photographer. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19372, 6 July 1926, Page 13
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