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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 35

Notice to Mariners No. 30 of 1902.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 5th May, 1902.

REFERRING to Notice to Mariners No. 70 of 1901, issued by this Department on the 5th November last, the following notice, received from the Marine Board, Port Adelaide, South Australia, is published for general information.
WM. HALL-JONES.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Gulf St. Vincent.—Semaphore and Glenelg Jetty Lighthouses.
REFERRING to Notice to Mariners No. 20 of 1901, masters of vessels and others are hereby informed that the alterations referred to therein will not be made at present, or until further notice is given.

ARTHUR SEARCY,
President of the Marine Board.
Marine Board Offices, Port Adelaide,
25th March, 1902.

Notice to Mariners No. 31 of 1902.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 5th May, 1902.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Marine Board, Port Adelaide, South Australia, and the Portmaster, Brisbane, Queensland, are published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Outer Harbour, Light’s Passage, Port Adelaide River.
MASTERS of vessels, pilots, and others are hereby informed that bores are being put down between the Occulting Light Buoy and the No. 2 Beacon Light, and during the continuance of the work an ordinary riding-light will be exhibited from a temporary staging erected where such bores are being worked.

ARTHUR SEARCY,
President of the Marine Board.
Marine Board Offices, Port Adelaide,
3rd April, 1902.

West Coast, Point Sinclair.
MASTERS of vessels and others are hereby informed that a mooring-buoy has been placed off the landing at Point Sinclair. The mooring is placed in 20 ft. at low water, spring tides, and within a radius of 200 ft. the depth at L.W.S. is nowhere less than 15 ft.

ARTHUR SEARCY,
President of the Marine Board.
Marine Board Offices, Port Adelaide,
8th April, 1902.

West Coast, Waterloo Bay.—Leading-beacons.
MARINERS are hereby advised that the two black beacons on the foreshore which formerly led into Waterloo Bay have been removed, and in lieu thereof two beacons with triangular-shaped heads have been erected. The lower or seaward beacon is painted red and the landward one white, and bear N.E. by N., as previously, leading over the deepest part of the bar approaching or leaving the bay.

ARTHUR SEARCY,
President of the Marine Board.
Marine Board Offices, Port Adelaide,
8th April, 1902.

West Coast Ballast-ground.—Smoky and Streaky Bays.

Smoky Bay.
MASTERS of vessels and others interested are hereby informed that two pile beacons with square white heads have been erected on the western side of Décres Bay, to mark the eastern boundary of the area within which ballast may be deposited. The north beacon is placed on the extreme N.E. point of St. Peter’s Spit, in 6 ft. at L.W.S., Cape Vivonne bearing W.N.W., distant one and a quarter miles. The south beacon bears S. ¾ E. from the north one, three and a half miles distant, and stands in 6 ft. L.W.S. All ballast must be deposited to westward of the line of beacons.

Streaky Bay.
Two piles with square white heads have been erected, on the south side of the North Sand, to mark the S.E. boundary of the area within which ballast may be deposited. The N.E. beacon is near the east end of North Sand, in 10 ft. L.W.S., and the S.W. beacon stands in 7 ft. L.W.S., bearing south-west two and three-quarter miles distant. These two beacons and the two outer buoys marking Dashwood Channel are approximately in line. Ballast may be deposited only to the N.W. of an imaginary line joining the two beacons.

ARTHUR SEARCY,
President of the Marine Board.
Marine Board Offices, Port Adelaide,
8th April, 1902.

QUEENSLAND.

Uncharted Reef eastward of Middle Bellona Shoals, Coral Sea.
DAVID THOMSON, master of the schooner “Waiwera,” reports the existence of an uncharted reef and sandbank in the following approximate position:—
Lat., north end, 20° 32′ S.
Long. 159° 35′ E.
It is about 3½ miles long, and encloses a lagoon.
In lat. 21° 25′ S., long. 159° 27′ E., another uncharted reef was seen, with the remains of a wreck of a wooden vessel of about 200 tons.
As these dangers are reported to exist about 30 miles to the eastward of the Middle Bellona Shoal, vessels are cautioned to exercise care and keep a good look-out when navigating that portion of the Coral Sea.
Chart affected: No. 2763; Australia Directory, Vol. ii.

JOHN MACKAY,
Acting Portmaster.
Marine Department, Brisbane,
14th April, 1902.

Notice to Mariners No. 32 of 1902.

PORT NICHOLSON.—WELLINGTON HARBOUR.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 5th May, 1902.

REFERRING to Notice to Mariners No. 21 of 1902, issued by this Department on the 25th March last, it is hereby further notified that two small patches have been found with a least depth of 25 ft. at L.W.O.S., and 29 ft. and 30 ft. on each side of these patches. The diver who examined these patches reports that the bottom was covered with a crust about a foot thick, and underneath this crust were shells mixed with soft stuff like quicksand. The following magnetic bearings will mark the position of the shoals, which are exactly one cable apart from one another:—
Eastern patch—
Somes Island lighthouse, N. 5° W., 2¾ miles.
Gordon Point, N. 64° W.
Western patch—
Somes Island lighthouse, N. 3° W
Gordon Point, N. 59½° W.
Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Chart No. 1423; “New Zealand Pilot,” 7th edition, chap. v., pages 167 to 176.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Regulations for Admission to Forest Service Branch of the Royal Indian Engineering College.

Education Department,
Wellington, 26th April, 1902.

THE following regulations of the Forest Service Branch of the Royal Indian Engineering College are published for general information.

W. C. WALKER,
Minister of Education.

REGULATIONS FOR THE FOREST SERVICE BRANCH OF THE ROYAL INDIAN ENGINEERING COLLEGE, COOPERS HILL, FOR 1902.
Postal and Telegraph address: Englefield Green Railway-station, Egham, L. and S. W. Railway.
[The arrangements hereinafter described are subject to revision under the orders of the Secretary of State for India.]

1. The examination for admission to the Indian Forest Service through the R.I.E. College, which will be conducted by the Civil Service Commissioners, will be simultaneous with, and (except that German must be taken as an obligatory subject, and that botany is added) in the same subjects and papers as, the examination for the Indian Police Department,* which is usually held in June.
   Candidates may undergo the written part of their examination in London, Edinburgh, or Dublin, or at any of the

• Candidates may, if qualified, enter for both the Police and the Forest Department. They will, in such case, have to pay the fee due in respect of each examination.