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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 8

Appointment in the Department of Lands and Survey.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 28th January, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WALTER CHARLES MCALISTER

to be an Assistant Surveyor in the Department of Lands and Survey.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Notice to Mariners No. 6 of 1902.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 24th January, 1902.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Department of Ports and Harbours, Melbourne, Victoria, and the Marine Board, Port Adelaide, are published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES.

VICTORIA. — PORT PHILLIP HEADS. — SUBMARINE BLASTING OPERATIONS.

Notice is hereby given that it is intended to commence blasting operations early in January, 1902, for the removal, to a depth of 37 ft., of the rock obstructions under 31 ft. to 34 ft. at low water, in the fairway entrance to Port Phillip, at about 9 cables S. 60° E. from Point Lonsdale. A steamer flying the red burgee at the main will be used to attend on the diver’s boats engaged in such work.

Caution.—Mariners and boatmen are hereby cautioned not to approach such boats nearer than a quarter of a mile; and warning will be given by prolonged whistle-blasts from the attendant steamer when a charge is ready for exploding. Mariners approaching the locality and hearing the whistle signals should bring up at least half a mile off until after the explosion, when they may proceed on their course. Such operations will only be carried on just before and during slack water.

C. W. MACLEAN,
Department of Ports and Harbours, Port Officer.
Melbourne, 20th December, 1901.

VICTORIA. — PORT PHILLIP HEADS. — ALTERATIONS TO POINT LONSDALE AND QUEENSCLIFF LIGHTS.

Referring to Notices to Mariners Nos. 31 and 85, dated 1st February, 1900, and 21st May, 1901, respectively, it is hereby notified that a new lighthouse, 70 ft. high, built of concrete and painted white, has been erected near the extremity of Point Lonsdale, at a distance of 530 ft. from the old lighthouse, and in line with it and the signal flagstaff, and that on and after the 20th day of March, 1902, an occulting light of the third order, dioptric, having periods of twelve seconds light and three seconds eclipse, will be shown from the tower at an elevation of 120 ft. above sea-level, and visible in clear weather from a ship’s bridge at a distance of 17 nautical miles.

From seaward such light will show as follows:—

Red between the bearings of S. 78° E. and N. 61° E.

White between the bearings of N. 61° E. and N. 43° W.

Red between the bearings of N. 43° W. and S. 78° W.

The intensity of the white light will be 22 and the red light 13 lighthouse units.

Simultaneously with the exhibition of such occulting light the green and red light at present shown from the old lighthouse will be discontinued; also, the western rays of white light from the Queenscliff low and high lights showing to seaward over and to the north-westward of Point Lonsdale will be so obscured that these lights will be only visible from seaward when bearing northward of N. 51° E. Caution.—The white light, illuminating an arc of 104° to seaward, will mark the safe navigable waters clear of Port Phillip Heads, and enable mariners to pick up the entrance to Port Phillip. The red sectors of light, between the limits of the white light and the coast to eastward and westward of Port Phillip Heads, are intended to warn mariners of their proximity to the shore; and should such red lights be seen when navigating outside the Heads, the vessel’s course should be altered to seaward to get within the white arc of light.

DIRECTIONS FOR ENTERING PORT PHILLIP.

From Westward by Night.—Mariners making Port Phillip Heads from the westward should not lose sight of the fixed red light on Split Point until they see the white occulting light on Point Lonsdale, which should in clear weather be picked up after proceeding 10 miles from Split Point light abeam. Soon after picking up Point Lonsdale white light, the white lights from the Queenscliff high and low lighthouses will respectively come into view, then steer to get into the red sector shown from the low light, which will be first seen on a bearing N. 39° E., then bring the low light (red) in line with the high light (white) bearing N. 34° E., keeping such leading-lights on until the red sector of occulting light showing inside the Heads eastward from Point Lonsdale lighthouse has been passed. A course may then be shaped for the South or West Channel as desired. From Eastward by Night.—Vessels having passed Cape Schanck light about 3 miles off should pick up the white occulting light on Point Lonsdale, which should be kept in sight until the leading-lights at Queenscliff are brought in line, then steer through the entrance fairway as directed for vessels from westward.

C. W. MACLEAN,
Department of Ports and Harbours, Port Officer.
Melbourne, 19th December, 1901.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—STREAKY BAY, WEST COAST.

Masters of vessels and others are hereby informed that a fixed white light will be exhibited from the Streaky Bay jetty on and after the night of 1st January, 1902. The light will be shown from a square box painted white erected on the end of the jetty, and will in clear weather be visible for a distance of six miles over an arc of 24°—viz., between the bearings of S. 19° W. and S. 5° E.—but will not be visible from the perforated rocks on the eastern side, or Sponge Rock to the westward. On a clear dark night, however, a faint light may possibly be noticeable outside the limits of the fully illuminated arc.

This notice affects Admiralty Chart No. 1061.

JOHN DARBY,
Marine Board Offices, Secretary Marine Board.
Port Adelaide, 19th December, 1901.

Notice to Mariners No. 7 of 1902.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 28th January, 1902.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Department of Navigation, Sydney, New South Wales, and the Chief Harbourmaster, Fremantle, Western Australia, are published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES.

SOUNDINGS ON TUGGERAH REEF.

THE Department of Navigation hereby notifies mariners and others that recent soundings taken by the Government Hydrographer show three to three and a half fathoms to rock on Tuggerah Reef, instead of four fathoms, as shown on the Admiralty Chart No. 1021.

NORMAN C. LOCKHART,
Department of Navigation, Secretary.
Sydney, 27th December, 1901.

PRELIMINARY.—WESTERN AUSTRALIA—WEST COAST.

THE Government of Western Australia desire to give notice that a dioptric, fixed, occulting light of the first order is in course of erection near Woodman Point, Cockburn Sound, in lat. 32° 7′ 45″ south, and long. 115° 47′ 5″ east.

The light will be white occulting, and will be displayed from a limestone tower of a natural grey colour; the height of focal plane above high water being 123 ft.

Three rays will be shown—the centre one white, with a coloured ray on either side, one green, and the other red.

The angles of rays, as also the periods of occultation of the light, will be given in future notice.

Charts affected: 1033, Champion Bay to Cape Naturaliste, and 1058, Rottnest Island to Warnboro’ Sound.

C. R. RUSSELL,
Chief Harbourmaster.

Chief Harbourmaster’s Office,
Fremantle, 19th December, 1901.

Notice to Mariners No. 8 of 1902.

GISBORNE HARBOUR LEADING-LIGHTS.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 28th January, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that the back red leading-light for entering Gisborne Harbour will be changed on 1st March, 1902, to a white light.

Charts affected: Admiralty chart No. 2527; “New Zealand Pilot,” chap. iv., p. 150.

WM. HALL-JONES.