LIGHTING THE NEW ZEALAND COAST.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10488, 22 June 1910, Page 4

LIGHTING THE NEW ZEALAND COAST.

(Pee Press Association.) Wellington, June 21

About three months ago the Marine Department sent a circular to the Merchant Service Guild asking for an opinion regarding the most suitable site for another lighthouse on the New Zealand coast, and also whether shipmasters considered it advisable to remove Mokihinua light to one of the Chickens Islands, off the entrance of Whangarei. Captain D. J. Watson,' secretary of the guild has interviewed all the masters < I vessels which have visited Wellington since the issue of the circular, and finds that a majority favour the establishment of a light house on Flat Point, about 40 miles north of Cape Palliser. A few captains consider there should be a light at Castle Point, and two or three others hold that if there is to be another lighthouse on the New Zealand coast it should be erected at Kidnappers. The proposal to remove the Mokihinau light meets with the approval of most of the shipmasters interviewed in Wellington.