CIV. NEW SOUTH WALES LIGHTHOUSES. 



fanlight openers. These rooms are fitted up with strong pine 

 shelving for lamp glasses and other stores, strong stands for oil 

 tanks, work table with drawers and shelves, and a wash sink 

 with pump connected with an underground rain-water tank of 

 3,000 gallons capacity, having a manhole with raised trachyte 

 kerb, and galvanized wrought iron cover and wrought iron foot 

 holds built into the tank walls for access. The tank is sunk in 

 the solid rock and lined all round the walls with mass concrete 

 12" thick, and the floor with concrete 9" thick, the roof being 

 formed with flat concrete 12" thick flush with the surface of the 

 ground, the whole being carefully rendered with cement inside. 

 A margin 6 " thick and 6 ' wide is "put all round this building at 

 the ground level, and having a fall from the walls outward 

 rendered with cement to protect the foundations . of the 

 buildings. 



At the top of the tower the lantern room is surrounded by an 

 open gallery with a clear space all round, 4' 4" wide, the floor of 

 which is of trachyte 16" thick, in sixteen stones with radiating 

 joints and moulded outer edge. The upper surface of these stones 

 or floor of gallery is paved with Yal de Travers asphalt to 

 prevent any soakage of water into the walls below. The outer 

 edge of the gallery is protected by a parapet wall of trachyte 

 3' 6" high, having a moulded coping and panelled front. The 

 whole of the trachyte work is strongly put together with copper 

 cramps and dowels in all joints, and the floor stones are bolted 

 down to the tower walls with wrought iron rods. The lantern 

 room with its floor and domed roof, also the lantern and 

 illuminating apparatus weighing altogether about 33 tons, have 

 been manufactured by Messrs. Chance Brothers & Co., to the 

 order of the New South Wales Government, and have been 

 imported at a cost of nearly .£4,000, and are not included in the 

 contract now let for the buildings, the contractor for which, 

 however, has to convey them from Sydney and erect them in 

 position. 



The lantern room is circular in plan, 12' lj" clear diameter 

 inside. The floor is of wrought iron chequered plate supported 



