["Light for Bedout Island", The Hedland Advocate (Port Hedland, WA), Saturday 30 January 1909, page 5]
Some months ago, the Engineer-in-Chief (Mr. James Thompson) obtained a patent occulting acetylene light from Messrs Chance Bros., Birmingham. The object of this was to place the lamp on trial, with a view to erecting a similar light on Bedout Island, which is a dangerous turning point on the track of steamers running between Port Hedland and Broome. The lamp is at present to be seen in the Harbour and Lights buoy-yard, Fremantle (near the Old Sea Jetty), and it was lighted on June 18. It has been unattended since that date, and it is estimated that it still holds sufficient gas to produce a light until the end of this month. This patent lamp is intended for islands where a regular lighthouse cannot be established, as in the case of Bedout Island, which is only 20ft. high, and is frequently swept by high seas, thus rendering it unfit for habitation. The new light burns for months, and when erected on the island, should prove a valuable guide to mariners in the Nor'-West."
