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says: “ Instead of a proper lighthouse being erected a miserable shed with 
a bow-window in it was constructed, in which was placed an indifferent 
lamp-light." In 1853, Carter had occasion to visit Wairarapa, which he 
did by walking to the old pilot-station by way of Lyall Bay and crossing 
to Pencarrow in the pilot-boat. He ascended the hill on which the “ light- 
house" stood (10). ‘‘ From here I saw the lighthouse-keeper (Mr. б. №. 
Bennett) coming up the hill with a load of drift-wood on his back which he 
had collected on the beach, and looking like another ‘ Robinson Crusoe.’ 
This Government officer or servant had his habitation—I cannot say it was a 
comfortable one, many would call it a wretched place ; but, Lord bless ше! 
an is an animal that accommodates himself to all sorts of odd things and 
and his cooking-place.” Mr. Carter, in a note, states that Mr. Bennett was 
drowned some time afterward, he thinks by the upsetting in a storm of the 
pilot-boat which was about to land him at Pencarrow. 
“The establishment (Pencarrow) was visited 4th February, 1854, and 
all things found clean and in order, and very creditable to the person in 
charge. The situation is considered the best that could be chosen for the 
first harbour-light, answering at the same time the useful purpose of assist- 
ing the navigation of that part of the strait adjacent to the Heads. The 
apparatus for producing the light is not very powerful, but with some slight 
modification might be made far more effective. 
_ “The great complaint is that towards morning the light gets so dim and 
discoloured as to become scarcely visible. This arises, in the first place, 
from the inferior quality of the oil, by which the lamp gets clogged up before 
morning and the quantity of light greatly lessened ; and, secondly, from the 
position of the smoke-conductor, which is thereby rendered useless, and the 
room, being kept constantly full of dense smoke, the windows become com- 
pletely blackened in a few hours, thereby producing that glimmering red 
appearance which all have observed a few hours after the lamps have been 
