Port of New Plymouth.
♦ -I A FOG HOEN WANTED. | •— — > < i 'The New Plymouth. Harbour Board , on Tuesday read a • letter from Captain Hood .who advised that a fog horn should be put .up "on the wharf. The Chairman, who stated that the ■ W^rks Committee had considered the matter and h.ad~ no recommendation ' to make^ saic? that the recent foggy i weather had 'been exceptional, and | •expenditure should 'be Icent down. * Mr- Maxwell said - the ' harbdurmas--. ter^ advicp shpiild be atttended *to, >. and 'moved that enquiry ' be, mftde - abo.ut carrying it out. "' ' ' "; i '„ , The tarbourm aster, said -that' in the recent fog," the captain of the Eotoiti could Have reached port 'jnubh Jearlier \h'ad tliere been a 'fog honr and 'the captain of the' Ngapuhi had picked up his, position by aid of a, railway 1 whistle. ' ' * * - " ■ * Mr Maxwell'^ motion was carried.-
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Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12195, 19 February 1903, Page 6
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141Port of New Plymouth. Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12195, 19 February 1903, Page 6
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