It is proposed to put a large number of additional lights in the Lower Harbour, and the channel from the black buoy on the south side of the light-ship is to be lighted on both sides with pile lights right up to Dunedin.
It is also proposed to put additional leading lights on the north-western side of the mainland of the lower channel at suitable positions right up to Quarantine Island.
The scheme also provides for a light on Goat Island opposite the one on Quarantine Island.
Some of the lights are at present under construction, and under the improved lighting it is intended that all lights shall be at the edge of the deep water in every case.
When the improved lighting is completed it will enable Home or other deep-draught vessels to come up to Port or Dunedin at night as well as during the day.
• "Drawing the colour line" - a procedure much in favour in some of the United States of America - appears to have reached New Zealand, but in this country the drawing is being done by the coloured man.
The occurrence took place in the Forty Mile Bush, near Dannevirke, last month, when a gang of Maori shearers struck work because a white man had been given a stand in the shed.
The result was that the white man was dismissed.
He sued the runholder for 20 damages for breach of contract, but the magistrate (Mr McCarthy, S. M.) held that as plaintiff could have obtained shearing work elsewhere two days later, he was entitled only to the 5 which defendant had paid into court.
- ODT, 8.12.1909.
