18 <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News Wednesday <strong>October</strong> <strong>11</strong> <strong>2023</strong>
FROM ABOUT 1853 for nearly a century, piloting and signalling functions at Waitata Little Port Cooper played a vital role in assisting and controlling shipping in Whakaraupō Lyttelton <strong>Harbour</strong>. Some of the earliest European occupants of the bay, alongside visiting whalers, were a team of tough and skilled boatmen from Deal in Kent, England, who operated the first pilot boat. They didn’t stay long – when they left the exposed bay for Timaru, a crew of local Māori took their place in crewing the pilot boat for a time. In 1860, the provincial government formally established a pilot boat service and constructed a beacon and lookout on the crest of Te Piaka Adderley Head, followed by a stone signal station in 1867. A slipway and two houses for pilots and crew were built below the headland at Cabbage Tree Point (Long Point) – a small area just metres above the high tide mark, backed by precipitous hills and battered by the wind. 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You will receive up to $220 in supermarket vouchers in recognition of the actual or reasonable costs involved with participating in this study (e.g. parking and/or travel costs). If you are a woman aged 60 to 80 years and can drink milk, we would love to hear from you. Department of Human Nutrition Ping Ong yummistudy@otago.ac.nz | 021 2798214 Wednesday <strong>October</strong> <strong>11</strong> <strong>2023</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News TREASURES FROM THE PAST 19 Signalling from Waitata Little Port Cooper Signal station settlement and jetty, Little Port Cooper. Te Ūaka The Lyttelton Museum ref.12806.1 https://www.teuaka.org. nz/online-collection/<strong>11</strong>33500 Right – Acetylene (carbide) signal lamp used by Lyttelton <strong>Harbour</strong> Board signalmen at the Adderley Head signal station. Te Ūaka The Lyttelton Museum ref.16.1 https://www.teuaka.org.nz/online-collection/469986 back via the Adderley Head signal station to an approaching vessel. This messaging enabled stevedores and customs and health officials to prepare for a ship’s imminent arrival. No doubt local residents kept a watchful eye on the flagpole too – according to one story, a mirror attached at a strategic angle on an Oxford Hotel window allowed the landlady to see the Timeball Station flagpole, and thus prepare for thirsty arrivals. During the night when flags were not visible, messages were relayed by Morse code using carbide Aldis lamps. In 1877, a telegraph connection between Lyttelton Port and Little Port Cooper was established, followed in 1880 by a telephone cable laid undersea from Te Awaroa Godley Head to Little Port Cooper, which was the first of its kind in New Zealand. • Turn to page 21 This project has been reviewed and approved by the University of Otago Human Ethics Committee (Health). 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