HARBOUR LIGHTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8559, 23 October 1913, Page 4

HARBOUR LIGHTS

ALTERATION AT PENCARROW RECOMMENDED. A voluminous report on tho suggestions made by the assessors at the second inquiry into the Wreck of tho Devon, as to tho lighting of the port, was presented to the Harbour Board last evening by tho harbourmaster, Captain H. Johnson. In regard to the assessors’ recommendation that a light on Barrett’s Reef would make the entrance to the harbour a perfectly safe undertaking, the harbourmaster submits evidence to show that the entrance is a perfectly safe undertaking at present. In regard to the Somes Island light, the suggestion to make it an occulting light would not meet the requirements of the shipmasters. to the evidence and the assessors’ decision in tho Devon case, says Captain Johnson, there is a convincing inference that, if the assessors’ suggestion were adopted to replace tho present red light on Falcon Shoal buoy by a green flashing light, a latent danger would be created (that did not exist before) such as would bring disaster to vessels entering the harbour, and the system of lighting the port would be further condemned. He recommended that the Minister for Marine be asked to, if possible, convert the high light on Pencarrow Head into a characteristic light.