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Kau Point Battery

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Construction of the battery was completed in 1891, with the intention of commanding the inner harbour in conjunction with the Halswell Battery, Fort Kelburne and
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The battery was manned until 1925, and then converted into a magazine and abandoned in the 1950s when New Zealand abandoned its coast defences.
58:. Fire control was provided by a Battery Command Post(BCP), equipped with a MK1b Direction Range Finder was located on the hill behind it. 244: 46:. The Battery was a single circular gun-pit with an underground magazine on the same level buried behind it. Armament consisted of one 70: 208: 139: 47: 99: 249: 201: 124: 239: 51: 55: 189: 8: 119:(10th impression, June 2016 ed.). Defence of New Zealand Study Group. p. 96. 120: 95: 28: 36: 23:, New Zealand in the 1890s. It is located on the east side of Point Halswell in 185: 50:. Secondary armament was planned, but never installed consisting of either two 228: 154: 141: 43: 32: 177: 24: 20: 184:
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Fort Ballance
One eight-inch disappearing gun
Q.F. Nordenfeldt six-pounder guns
QF 6-pounder Hotchkiss
Coastal fortifications of New Zealand
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