NEW LIGHTHOUSE
BARING HEAD CEREMONY By pressing two small switches at Baring Head on Monday afternoon Mrs. Eric Riddiford set in operation ready for uso the new light placed there to aid mariners entering and leaving Wellington Harbour. Tho 27 acres on which tho lighthouse station is established was donated by her husband, and at an appropriate ceremony at the lighthouse tributes were paid to Mr. Riddiford's generosity and public-spirited action. The Baring Head light replaces the old familiar light at Pencarrow, the first lighthouse erected in New Zealand, which was extinguished at sunrise on Monday morning. Tho Government was represented at tho ceremony by the Minister of Marine, the Hon. J. G. Cobbe, ami tho Minister of Public Works, the Hon. J. Bitchener.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22141, 21 June 1935, Page 13
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