The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 69
Lighthouses
Lighthouses.
In addition to ordinary harbour lights there are twenty-six lighthouses on the coast of New Zealand. Five are built of stone, six of iron, and fifteen of timber. The lights are of various orders and descriptions and of the most approved type. The first lighthouse in the colony, that at Pencarrow Head, was lighted in January, 1859, and the others have been added year by year as the shipping trade increased. Seventeen have been built since 1870.