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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 99

GULF ST. VINCENT.—ENTRANCE TO PORT ADELAIDE.
Masters of vessels, pilots, and others are hereby informed that a green light, visible about two miles, has been placed on the black buoy opposite the occulting light buoy at the entrance to the Port Adelaide River.
This affects Admiralty Charts 2389B and 1752.

ARTHUR SEARCY,
President of the Marine Board.

Marine Board Offices,
Port Adelaide, 2nd November, 1908.

Notice to Mariners No. 95 of 1908.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 5th December, 1908.

THE following three Notices to Mariners, received from the Port Officer, Melbourne, Victoria (1), and the President of the Marine Board, Port Adelaide, South Australia (2), are published for general information.

J. A. MILLAR.

LAKES ENTRANCE.—SUBMERGED TIMBER.—DANGER TO NAVIGATION.
Mariners and others are hereby informed that 80 ft. of the abandoned West Pier end was washed away at 11 o’clock this morning, and is now lying awash to westward of the existing pier end. It will probably break up quickly.
Caution.—Mariners should be on the look-out to avoid the submerged wreckage.

J. M. SEMMENS,
For Port Officer.

Melbourne, 22nd October, 1908.

KANGAROO ISLAND, SOUTH-WEST COAST.
Cape de Couedie Lighthouse.
Masters of vessels and others are informed that a lighthouse is in course of erection at Cape de Couedie, on the south-west coast of Kangaroo Island. The light, which will be of the first order, revolving, double-flash, is to be shown from a masonry tower 58 ft. high, and will be visible about twenty-six miles, and is expected to be first exhibited about April, 1909. Pending the completion of the above, a temporary fixed white light is being exhibited. This is an ordinary masthead light, visible fifteen miles to seaward from east half north around to north-west half west approximately.
Further particulars will be notified at an early date.
This affects Admiralty Chart 2389A.

ARTHUR SEARCY,
President of the Marine Board.

Marine Board Offices,
Port Adelaide, 13th November, 1908.

KANGAROO ISLAND.—BACKSTAIRS PASSAGE.
Cape St. Albans Light.
Referring to former Notice to Mariners, masters of vessels and others are hereby informed that a fixed white light of the fourth order, showing a red sector between the bearings of east by north to south, is now shown from a masonry tower painted white, the focal plane being about 120 ft. above high water. The light will be visible for a distance of about seventeen miles.
This affects Admiralty Charts 2389A and 1014.

ARTHUR SEARCY,
President of the Marine Board.

Marine Board Offices,
Port Adelaide, 19th November, 1908.

Notice to Mariners No. 96 of 1908.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 5th December, 1908.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the Presidency Port Officer, Madras, is published for general information.

J. A. MILLAR.

INDIA.—WEST COAST.—MALABAR DISTRICT.
Exhibition of New Light at Cotta Point.
Notice is hereby given that on or about the 1st April, 1909, a dioptric second-order single-flashing white light showing one flash every five seconds (the power of the light being about 200,000 candles) will be exhibited at Kadalur or Cotta Point, on a small hill about half a mile from the point, from a cement-plastered masonry tower 114 ft. high from base to vane. Latitude 11° 28′ 08″ N., longitude 75° 38′ 09″ E.
The light will be 180 ft. above H.W. level, and be visible in clear weather at a distance of 20 miles from all directions seaward.

W. MITCHELL,
Commander, R.I.M., Presidency Port Officer.

Presidency Port Office,
Madras, 13th Oct., 1908.

Notice to Mariners No. 97 of 1908.

THE “NEW ZEALAND NAUTICAL ALMANAC AND TIDE-TABLES” AND SUPPLEMENT TO THE “NEW ZEALAND PILOT,” SEVENTH EDITION, 1901.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 3rd December, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Marine Department has now published the “New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide-tables” for 1909, with supplementary information to date relating to the “New Zealand Pilot,” seventh edition, 1901.
The work contains about 400 pages, twenty-five folded plans of New Zealand harbours and wharves, five coloured maps of New Zealand, one illustrating the different kinds of lighthouses, two showing separately on North and South Islands the magnetic variation curves for 1908, and the other two showing the railway and steamer communication up to date for both Islands.
Besides the information with plans about the principal harbours of New Zealand, there are this year eighty-five pages supplementary to the “New Zealand Pilot,” edition 1901, to keep that work up to date. Thirty pages have been given to cautions and informations, &c., relating to fires on ships, gathered from reports, &c., of Royal Commissions held in England and in this country. Several pages are devoted, as in previous editions, to courses and distances around New Zealand, and to many oversea ports.
Two or three additional nautical tables have been added this year, viz.: Azimuth and reduction tables for star Polaris, and a table giving the approximate apparent times of the meridian passages of 107 of the principal fixed stars, forty-five of them being circum-polar stars, for which the times of the inferior transit are given as well as the superior.
The table for correction of altitudes of sun and star has been recalculated with data from the latest authorities, and enlarged so as to include height of eye from the decks of the smallest to the largest vessels afloat.
The work may be obtained at the shipping offices at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin, at the Customhouses in other ports, and from any booksellers who stock it. Price, 2s. 6d.

J. A. MILLAR.

Notice of Half-holiday (for Boys under Eighteen Years of Age and Women) in the Borough of Inglewood, under “The Factories Act, 1908,” section 36.

WHEREAS a poll of the electors of the Borough of Inglewood has been taken on a proposal that the weekly half-holiday provided for by section 35 of “The Factories Act, 1908,” should be allowed in that borough on the same day as the day appointed as the statutory closing-day for shops in that borough: And whereas a majority of the votes given at such poll were in favour of the said proposal:
Now, therefore, in pursuance of the provisions of subsection (2) of section 36 of “The Factories Act, 1908,” I, John Andrew Millar, Minister of Labour, hereby give notice that on and after the 17th day of December, 1908, the half-holiday (for boys under eighteen years of age and women) under “The Factories Act, 1908,” shall be allowed in the Borough of Inglewood on the same day as that appointed from time to time as the statutory closing-day for shops in the said borough, instead of on Saturday.
Dated at Wellington, this 9th day of December, 1908.

J. A. MILLAR,
Minister of Labour.

NOTE.—The statutory half-holiday appointed for shops in the Borough of Inglewood is at present Thursday.