The Bean Rock lighthouse is one of the well known lighthouses in New Zealand which was lit on the 24th of July in 1871 and constructed in 1870 this unique looking lighthouse took 8 months to build and was at the cost of $2,762, the light was powered by ‘kerosene’ there were eight lighthouse keepers around 1971 to 1912, which are Hugh Brown (1871 - 1890)(First lighthouse keeper), James William Nicolson (1890), John Wheeler (1890 - 1896), Edward R. Wilson (1896 - 1900), Alexander McKinlay (1900 - 1906), William Colley (1906 - 1909), James Anderson (1909 - 1911) and finally Frederick Woodbury (1911 - 1912).
This Lighthouse is named (or called) after the master of HMS Herald. His name is Lieutenant P.C.D Bean, this person helped to carry out the first survey of Waitemata Harbour in 1840. There is also a Maori legend.
This lighthouse wasn’t the most popular place to work, the first keeper Mr. Brown (Hugh Brown) must have liked this lighthouse and was willing to work there, the reason why he liked this lighthouse was because he had stayed there for more than 10 years (19 years)!. He liked that he cleaned it by scrubbing all the rust and sweeped the ground. Around the time he didn’t work there he earnt $150 each year!
You can find this lighthouse at Mission Bay in Auckland to maori people it is known as the Te-Toka-o-Kapetaua’s (Kapetaua’s rock) for the memory of Kapetaua
This week for Reading we have been looking at New Zealand lighthoues, Overall their are Twenty Three active lighthouses in New Zealand,
for this activity we had got givin a name of a lighthouse for each group,we were givin The Bean Rock lighthouse,Located in Mission Bay Auckland to research on.This week I learnt how lighthouses were put where they are and how some lighthouses are put in difficult places like on hills etc.I also learnt that back in the 1800's New Zealand got lighthouses from England,but they would ask for a lighthouse and then they would be delivered in pieces and in rings to be put up like how you would do now to build a toy or something.
This week for Reading we have been looking at New Zealand lighthoues, Overall their are Twenty Three active lighthouses in New Zealand,
for this activity we had got givin a name of a lighthouse for each group,we were givin The Bean Rock lighthouse,Located in Mission Bay Auckland to research on.This week I learnt how lighthouses were put where they are and how some lighthouses are put in difficult places like on hills etc.I also learnt that back in the 1800's New Zealand got lighthouses from England,but they would ask for a lighthouse and then they would be delivered in pieces and in rings to be put up like how you would do now to build a toy or something.
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