THREE KING LIGHT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13071, 10 May 1913, Page 7

THREE KING LIGHT.

APPEAL TO AUS'TRALL.\

(Per Press Association.) AUG"K34N*>_ last.^*al^it' v 7 "During., -nay -visit .toT'^uetralia. I did not omit to have several 'interviews with Commander Brewis, who controls the ligathouses on the Australian coast, with! reference to the problem, of efficiently j lighting the Three Kings, and the infor-j mation which he gave me will be most] valuable to the -Ne-wr Zealahd Matfihe Department,"- said the, Hon. Ft ■ M.7 B. Fisher to *ah interviewer this rimming. "I raised the pohit!' With Mr Tudor' of Australians contributing to .t&e.,oost of the lighting of the Three Kings, which will be, m a sense, an international lighj. ->.-; Large $ -nnmbers of y Australian ships bound for South America or round the (Horn pass between the Three Kings and> Cape M!oria. Hardly ever less than, two; and sometimes? Jjsisj piany, , a s' 14 '"-in one? wee*, pass through between ithe islands and the mainland, and' never Honih iSew Zealand at all. In fact .the ligny. would be of more, real value to Australian shipping 'than to us. -'And for these reasons, and also considering the fact that it will probably ; t»st"'mo!t'e to erect than any light m Australasia, I venture^-to suggest that the Commonwealth Government shbulott li% #s'"w.ith half the initial cost. I subsequently interviewed the* Prime Minister, Andrei Fisher, and went^fu*^ the matter. Of course th'e" Federal 1 Ministers were* unable to make any definite commitment m the .-matter. The Federal Mirn e *^s were busy fighting their elec- -i tiom. and the matter would have to go before the Cabinet, but:. l,. feel suro that later on the tfe&eraf GoVerhment 'will see "jthe reasonableness of the proposal, anduassist us ih protecting the shipping that; frequents the the Three Kings." '-!!:-' IX ■■'