Aug. 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3153

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS, 1910.
(No. 475.)
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
(Prevention of Accidents—Life-saving Appliances.)
Order in Council exempting Danish Ships complying with Danish Provisions from the Provisions of Sections 427–431 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57–8 V. c. 60) as to Life-saving Appliances.

At the Court at St. James’s, the 22nd day of April, 1910.

Present:
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Lord President, Sir Fleetwood Edwards.
Lord Steward, Colonel Seely.

Whereas His Majesty was pleased, by His Commission dated the 5th day of March, one thousand nine hundred and ten, to nominate and appoint His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, in His Majesty’s absence from His Realm in Foreign Parts, to hold on His Majesty’s behalf, His Privy Council, and to signify thereat His approval of any matter or thing whereunto His Royal Highness should be authorized by writing under His Majesty’s Sign Manual, and to do further on His Majesty’s behalf any matter or thing for the purposes of the said Commission whereunto His Royal Highness should be authorized in manner aforesaid:

And whereas by section 4 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1906, it is provided that sections 427 to 431 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (hereinafter called the principal Act), relating to life-saving appliances shall, after the appointed day, apply to all foreign ships while they are within any port of the United Kingdom as they apply to British ships. Provided that His Majesty may by Order in Council direct that those provisions shall not apply to any ship of a foreign country in which the provisions in force relating to life-saving appliances appear to His Majesty to be as effective as the provisions of Part V of the principal Act, on proof that those provisions are complied with in the case of that ship:

And whereas by section 5 of the said Act it is provided that the said appointed day shall be the first day of January, 1909, or such other day, not being more than twelve months later, as the Board of Trade may appoint:

And whereas the Board of Trade appointed the first day of October, 1909, to be the day after which the provisions of the principal Act relating to life-saving appliances should apply to all foreign ships while they are within any port of the United Kingdom as they apply to British ships:

And whereas it appears to His Majesty that the provisions in force in Denmark relating to life-saving appliances are as effective as the provisions of Part V of the principal Act:

Now, therefore, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, being authorized thereto by writing under His Majesty’s Sign Manual, doth, by and with the advice of His Majesty’s Privy Council, on behalf of His Majesty direct that the provisions of sections 427 to 431 of the principal Act shall not apply to any Danish ship while within any port of the United Kingdom, if it is proved that the aforesaid Danish provisions relating to life-saving appliances are complied with in the case of that ship.

Almeric FitzRoy.

Notice to Mariners No. 81 of 1910.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 1st August, 1910.

THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the Marine Board, Port Adelaide, South Australia, is published for general information.

J. A. MILLAR.

St. Vincent Gulf.—Edithburgh—Troubridge Telephone Cable.

Masters of vessels and others are informed that the western end of the submarine telephone cable between the mainland and Troubridge Lighthouse has been removed to a point about half a mile south of Edithburgh Jetty.

The position of the shore end is marked by two posts, painted white, at the top of the cliff, bearing from each other due east and west, and the cable is laid for a distance of one mile in a line with these posts.

Masters of vessels, fishermen, and others are cautioned against anchoring in the neighbourhood of the line of the cable as indicated above.

Approximate position of eastern post: Lat. 35° 6′ S., long. 137° 44⅓′ E.

This affects Admiralty Charts Nos. 2389A and 2152.

Arthur Searcy,
President of the Marine Board.

Marine Board Offices,
Port Adelaide, 2nd July, 1910.

Notice to Mariners No. 83 of 1910.

New Buoys and Shoaling of Nelson Harbour.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 8th August, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that Captain W. F. Blunt, R.N., of H.M.S. “Pioneer,” reports that three black buoys have been established in Nelson Harbour to mark the edge of the bank to the N.E. of the new entrance. The black buoy N. 62° W. (magnetic) 1⅔ cables from Stafford’s house has been withdrawn.

A red buoy has been established to the S.E. of the new entrance.

The dredged channel appears to be further to the southward than is shown on Admiralty Chart No. 2185, and has shoaled to 12½ ft.

The magazine is no longer painted red.

He also reports that, from information he received from the Harbourmaster, a bank is forming outside the new entrance, giving only 2 fathoms up to about ½ a cable south (true) of the fairway buoy, and about ¾ of a cable west of the line of leading lights.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Plan No. 2185; “New Zealand Pilot,” eighth edition, 1908, Chap. vi, page 189; “New Zealand Nautical Almanac,” page 173.

J. A. MILLAR.

Notice to Mariners No. 84 of 1910.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 8th August, 1910.

THE following extracts from Notices to Mariners, received from the United States Hydrographic Office, at Washington, are published for general information.

J. A. MILLAR.

CHINA.

Wusung River.—Change in Tide Signals.—Information has been received from the Harbourmaster at Shanghai, China, that on or about 10th May, 1910, the depth of water in the Astrea Channel would be shown from the signal-mast near the Woosung Lighthouse and from a signal-mast at the upper side of the mouth of the Kajow Creek, and the signals now shown at the Woosung Inner Signal-station would be discontinued. The yardarms on the new signal-mast at the Kajow Signal-station will point east and west respectively. For signaling purposes the eastern yardarm will correspond with the present Woosung Signal-station’s northern yardarm, and the western yardarm with that of the present southern yardarm.

The difference between the depth of water on what is known as the Woosung Outer Bar and that in the Astrea Channel will be shown, from below the parapet of the Woosung Lighthouse during daylight, by symbols, as under:—

Difference in feet: 1 2 3 4 5 6
Symbols: ▼ ● ◆ ■ ▲ ✕

When the depth of water on the Woosung Outer Bar is more than in the Astrea Channel, the signals will be shown on the northern side of the Woosung Lighthouse, and when less on the southern side.

Also that on and after 1st July, 1910, the depth of water in the Astrea Channel will be indicated by spherical shapes by day and white lights by night at the signal-mast near the Woosung Lighthouse and at the Kajow Signal-mast, as follows:—