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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Wolfgang Köberer
Date: 2023 Jun 17, 02:32 -0700
An addition to the article by Roger Kinns (mentioned by Adrian F):
The "Nautisches Jahrbuch" for 1913 gives the following information - as of 1910 - for Port Chalmers: ball dropped at 12:30 GMT; it drops once a week and 2 hours before the time of the drop a blue flag is raised. The "Nautisches Jahrbuch" for 1919 simply says: Masters may obtain the legal time of Wellington from the telephone office at Dunedin, so obviously the time ball service there was discontinued.
In this publication it is said that the Lyttelton ball drops on Tuesday and Friday at 16:00 GMT (3:30 local time); on application the ball may drop at a different time. In the N.J. for 1913 the time when the ball drops is given as 13:30 GMT; the results of the daily signal are published in the newspapers.
Regards
Wolfgang
