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Return showing the Quantity of Oil consumed at the Various Lighthouses in New Zealand during the Nine Months ended the 31st March, 1880.

Descriptive Return of New Zealand Coastal Lighthouses.

Return showing the number of Masters, Mates, and Engineers examined during the nine months ended the 31st March, 1880, distinguishing the Number of Successful and Unsuccessful Candidates.

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Name of Lighthouse. Gallons Consumed. Cape Maria Van Diemen Tin Tiri Ponui Passage Portland Island Napier Bluff Pencarrow Head Somes Island Manukau Heads Brothers Cape Campbell Godley Head Akaroa Head (3 months) Moeraki Taiaroa Head Cape Saunders (3 months) Nugget Point Dog Island ... Centre Island Puysegur Point Cape 1'oulwind 1'arewell Spit Kelson 626 349 44 384 127 371 12a 355 487 353 234 100 352 282 108 496 467 579 666 394 308 186 Total ' ... 7,397

Name of Lighthouse. Order of Apparatus, Revolving or Fixed. Period of devolving Light. Colour of Light. Tower, built of. Dwellings built of. D»te first Lighted. Cape Maria ' Diemen van ) 1st order dioptric Revolving Fixed 1' White Red, to show over Columbia Reef White Timber Timber J» 24th Mar, 1879 Tiritiri Ponui Passage Portland Island 1 2nd 5th 2nd „ 11 Revolving Fixed 30" )> Iron Timber i i 1st Jan., 1865 29th July, 1871 10th Feb., 1878 Red, to show over Bull Rock White )? n Pencarrow Head Manukau Heads Brothers I 2nd 3rd 2nd 11 i > Flashing Fixed Revolring Fixed Flashing 10' ?> Iron Timber ii 1st Jan., 1859 1st Sept., 1874 24th Sept., 1877 1st Aug., 1870 1st April, 1865 1st Jan., 1880 22ndApril,1878 2nd Jan., 1865 1st Jan., 1880 4th July, 1870 1st Aug., 1865 i' Red, over Cook Rock White Cape Campbell Godley Head Akaroa Moeraki Taiaroa Head Cape Saunders Nugget Point Dog Island 2nd 2nd „ 2nd „ 3rd 3rd 2nd „ 1st ,, 1st order eatadioptric 1st order dioptric >> Revolving 10" i' White '.'.'. Red White ... Stone Timber Timber Stone n ii Stone Timber Stone Revolving 30' n a it Centre Island Fixed White, with "red arcs ever inshore dangers White Timber Timber 16thSept.,1878 Puysegur Point Cape Foulwind Farewell Spit 1st 2nd 2nd Flashing ■ Revolving 10" 30" 1' n )} 1st Mar., 1879 1st Sept., 1876 17th June, 1870 Nelson 4th t> Fixed White, with red arc over Spit end White, with red arc to mark limit of anchorage a Iron it t 5 4th Aug., 1862

rcKLA: rD. We: .LIXGTON. jned: [N. It: 'TELTI IN. 'HAMES. 'OTALi Class or Certificate. I I 3 13 t5 I 3 •6 o I ■d 0) EM "3 o H Foreign-going Masters and Mates Home-Trade Mastera and Mates Kiver Steamer Masters Sea-going Engineers Kiver Steamer Engineers ... 17 12 29 9 7 16 20 20 46 19 65 13 2 15 6 3 9 3 3 22 5 £7 3 2 9 2 1 5 3 9 "i 3 1 1 3 3 7 4 17 2 1 3 9 *2 3 "i i 3 3 2 "s 20 Totals 44 17 61 20 10 30 26 1 I I 27 3 2 3 3 96 30 12'