ELECTRIC LIGHT FOR FORT BALLANCE.
(PER UNITED PRISSS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, July 19. 'Ihe Defence Department has now received from Home the electric light apparatus to be used in connection with the defence works at this port. It is. intended to erect the apparatus at Fort Ballance, where it will command the entrance to the Heads and the whole harbour way up to beyond Ward's Island, thus enabling the batteries to have a full view of any vessel entering: the Heads or trying to make her way into the harbour. Similar apparatus has been obtained for Auckland.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 11248, 20 July 1886, Page 2
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96ELECTRIC LIGHT FOR FORT BALLANCE. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 11248, 20 July 1886, Page 2
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