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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 52

Notice to Mariners No. 37 of 1905.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 25th May, 1905.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Minister of State for Communications, Tokyo, Japan, are published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES.

SHIMONOSEKI STRAIT.

NOTICE is hereby given that, after the withdrawing of four buoys Nakanosu East, Moji South-west, Kasaze, and Touridashi in a few days, four lighted buoys into the same places, and new three, named Manjushima, Kanabuse, and Ganryujima, will be moored by the War Department.

The lighted buoy to be moored into the former position of Nakanosu east buoy will be named Nakanosu East No. 2 lighted buoy; and the former Nakanosu lighted buoy will be named Nakanosu East No. 1 lighted buoy; and another lighted buoy, to be moored into the position of former Touridashi buoy, will be named Funaze lighted buoy.

Every lighted buoy undermentioned will be made of iron, frustum of cone in shape, surmounted by a lattice-work supporting a lantern, lighted with Pintsch’s gas. Each light will be elevated 10 ft. high above the water.

Character of lights, mooring positions, and colour of buoys are as follows:—

NOTE.—A further notice will be given after the mooring of new lighted buoys. Should the lights go out by accident, there may be some delay before relighting them.

OURA KANETAKE,
Minister of State for Communications.
Tokyo, 22nd March, 1905.

TOKYO BAY.

NOTICE is hereby given that a temporary lighted buoy will be moored experimentally, in 5½ fathoms of water, 2 cables S. 50° W. from Honmoku Lightship, Yokohama Harbour.

The buoy is made of iron, conical in shape, painted red, and surrounded by a lantern. The light will be fixed white, illuminating the whole horizon, and elevated 6½ ft. above the sea.

NOTE.—The light may go out by the condition of illuminating-apparatus.

OURA KANETAKE,
Minister of State for Communications.
Tokyo, 23rd March, 1905.

Notice to Mariners No. 36 of 1905.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 13th May, 1905.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the Department of Ports and Harbours, Melbourne, Victoria, is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES.

VICTORIA.

Buoys off Wilson’s Spit, Port of Geelong.

REFERRING to General Notice to Mariners, Victoria, dated 24th September, 1901, page 73, and subsequent Notice No. 60, dated 6th March, 1903, mariners and others are hereby notified that the shoal water immediately to the south-westward of Wilson’s Spit gas buoy has been deepened to 25 ft., ordinary low water; also, on and about 10th May, 1905, the gas buoy will be shifted 1½ cables S. 77° W. to the southern extremity of the spit, and the black and white chequered buoy 500 ft. N.14° E. to mark the northern edge of remaining shoals. Such new disposition of buoys will give a clear passage between them of 2 cables in width, with not less than 25 ft., ordinary low water.

Mariners bound eastward are advised to at once begin to starboard to get on their course after passing between such buoys, as shoal water of 23 ft., L.W., exists half a mile S. 73° E. from midway between the buoys heretofore referred to.

C. W. MACLEAN,
Port Officer.
Melbourne, 6th April, 1905.

Notice to Mariners No. 38 of 1905.

PUYSEGUR POINT LIGHT, ENTRANCE TO PRESERVATION INLET, SOUTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 26th May, 1905.

REFERRING to Notice to Mariners No. 31 of 1905, issued by this Department on the 27th ultimo, notice is hereby given that the repairs to the light at Puysegur Point have been completed and the flashing light has been resumed.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Charts Nos. 720, 1212, and 2589; “New Zealand Pilot,” 7th edition, 1901, Chapter x., page 337.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Notice to Mariners No. 39 of 1905.

LIGHT ON RANGITOTO BEACON, ENTRANCE TO AUCKLAND HARBOUR.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 27th May, 1905.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Pintsch’s patent gas light has been established on the top of the old Rangitoto beacon, and that on and after Friday, the 2nd June, 1905, a white occulting light—5 seconds flash and 5 seconds obscured—will be exhibited from it, visible over an arc of 247° from seaward, obscured over Rangitoto Island between the bearings of S. 31° W. and N. 36° W. magnetic. The light will be 68 ft. above high water, and should be visible from a vessel’s deck on a clear dark night for a distance of about 12 miles.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Charts Nos. 1896 and 2543; “New Zealand Pilot,” 7th edition, 1901, Chapter ii., page 49.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Registrar of Seamen under “The Shipping and Seamen Act, 1903,” and his Office, appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 25th May, 1905.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance of the power and authority conferred by section 160 of “The Shipping and Seamen Act, 1903,”

GEORGE ALLPORT,
the Secretary of the Marine Department, has been appointed the Registrar of Seamen under the said Act; and also that the Head Office of the Marine Department at Wellington has been appointed to be the office of the said Registrar; and it has been directed that the business of the said office shall be there transacted.

WM. HALL-JONES.