NEW LIGHTHOUSE
BARING HEAD.
REPLACING PENCARROW LIGHT.
(Per United Press Association.) Wellington, June 17. The new light placed on Baring Head to aid mariners entering and leaving Wellington Harbour- was used for the first time to-night. It replaces the Pencarrow light, the first lighthouse erected in New Zealand, which was extinguished at sunrise this morning. At the ceremony this afternoon, Mrs Eric Riddiford, whose husband donated 27 acres on which the new lighthouse stands, set the mechanism ready for use. The Government was represented at the ceremony by the Hons. J. G. Cobbe and J. Bitchener.
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Southland Times, Issue 25314, 18 June 1935, Page 7
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