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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 45

Ships’ goods will be charged according to bill of lading,
or by weight or measurement, at option of Department,
provided that the charges shall not be computed on more
than twice the actual weight of any consignment; other
goods by weight or measurement, as the Department
directs.

As witness my hand, this twenty-seventh day of
May, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

J. A. MILLAR,
Minister of Railways.

Notice to Mariners No. 62 of 1911.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 23rd May, 1911.

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

J. A. MILLAR.

SPENCER GULF.

Approach to Port Lincoln.—Cape Donnington Light.

REFERRING to Notice to Mariners No. 30 of 1905, masters
of vessels and others are informed that on and after the
night of the 22nd March, 1911, an improved light will be
exhibited from an open iron-pile structure, painted white,
instead of a wooden structure as formerly. The characteristics of the light are the same as originally notified—
viz., situated on the eastern point of Cape Donnington;
the focal plane of the light is 80 ft. above sea-level, and
visible in clear weather over a radius of 14 miles.

The light will show white between the bearings of N.
70° E. and N. 74° E. (along the channel south of Boston
Island), red from N. 74° E. to S. 44° E. (over Boston
Island), white from S. 44° E. to N. 74° W., and red from
N. 74° W. until shut in by the land about N. 51° W. (over
Dangerous Reef and Howard Rock).

Approximate position: Lat. 34° 43′ 45″ S., long. 135°
59′ 30″ E.

Wedge Island Light.

Also that on and after the night of the 29th March,
1911, an unwatched bright light will be exhibited from
an iron-pile structure 20 ft. high, surrounded by a close
fence, painted white, on the south-eastern end of Wedge
Island. The light will flash every three (3) seconds; its
focal plane will be six hundred and eighty (680) feet above
ordinary sea-level, and it will be visible in clear weather
for a distance of about 12 miles all around the horizon.

Lat. 35° 10½′ S., long. 136° 29′ E., approximately.

This affects Admiralty Charts 2389A and B, 1061, and 784.

ARTHUR SEARCY,
President of the Marine Board.

Marine Board Offices,
Port Adelaide, 17th March, 1911.

BEACHPORT (RIVOLI BAY) JETTY LIGHT.—CORRECTION OF CHART.

THE attention of masters of vessels and others is directed
to a difference between the Admiralty Chart No. 1007
and the sailing directions contained in the “Australia
Directory,” Vol. 1, page 375, 1907 edition.

The error in the chart will be at once brought under the
notice of the Admiralty Hydrographic Department, with
a suggestion that it be made to agree with the details given
in the directory mentioned. The sailing directions in the
directory are correct, and should be followed.

The red light by the chart could be seen between the
bearings of N. 8° E. and N. 33° W., but actually it shows
only from N. 8° E. to N. 2° W. The red light will then
show over Ringwood Reef and West Rock.

ARTHUR SEARCY,
President of the Marine Board.

Marine Board Offices,
Port Adelaide, 1st April, 1911.

Notice to Mariners No. 63 of 1911.

FOG-SIGNAL, PATITI POINT, TIMARU.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 29th May, 1911.

NOTICE is hereby given that a fog-signal station has
been established on Patiti Point, 1¼ miles south of
Timaru Breakwater; and that on and after 15th June,
1911, the fog-signals, which consist of explosions of cotton-
powder charges, will be sounded at intervals of five minutes
when land is likely to be obscured at a distance of about
three miles from seaward by either fog, mist, falling snow,
or continuous rain.

It is anticipated that these sound-signals will be heard
at any distance under ten miles, varying according to the
state of the atmosphere and the force and direction of the
wind.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Charts Nos. 2532 and
3620; “New Zealand Pilot,” eighth edition, 1908, Chap.
viii, page 247. See also pages 289/90 of “New Zealand
Nautical Almanac,” Special Warnings to Mariners re Fog-
signals.

J. A. MILLAR.

Notice to Mariners No. 64 of 1911.

DREDGING IN BLUFF HARBOUR.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 29th May, 1911.

THE Bluff Harbour Board have notified that dredging
operations have been commenced on the eastern end
of the middle bank in Bluff Harbour. The red buoy
marking end of bank has been removed, and a small red
buoy has been moored fifty yards south-east by east of
previous position of red buoy, to carry dredger’s stern-
moorings.

When not working, vessels entering must take care not
to hook dredger’s moorings if requiring to let go an anchor.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Chart No. 3484; “New
Zealand Pilot,” eighth edition, 1908, Chap. ix, page 272;
“New Zealand Nautical Almanac,” page 272, and plan
facing page 270.

J. A. MILLAR.

Notice to Mariners No. 65 of 1911.

AUCKLAND HARBOUR.—EXPLOSIVES ANCHORAGE FOR VESSELS.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 30th May, 1911.

WITH reference to Notice to Mariners No. 40, issued
by this Department on the 10th ultimo, the Auckland Harbour Board notifies that the explosives anchorage
described in that notice will not be used as such until
the 1st July next, but that the old anchorage, which is
between lines drawn from Hobson Point to Cook Point,
and 1,000 ft. eastward and parallel to a line drawn from
Resolution Point to Depot Point, will be the explosives
anchorage until that date.

J. A. MILLAR.

Defining New Plymouth Extended River Limits for Tugs, Dredges, and Hopper Barges.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
conferred upon me by section 189 of the Shipping and
Seamen Act, 1908, I, John Andrew Millar, Minister of
Marine, do hereby define the New Plymouth restricted
limits within which extended-river tugs, dredges, and
hopper barges, not carrying passengers, and propelled by
steam, gas, oil, fluid, electricity, or any mechanical power
other than steam, may ply, to be inside a right line drawn
from a point two nautical miles to the westward of Para-
tutu to a point two miles to the westward of the entrance
to the Waitara River.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this twenty-
seventh day of May, one thousand nine hundred
and eleven.

J. A. MILLAR.

Master Mariner appointed to act with a Surveyor of Ships at the Port of Auckland in fixing the Position of the Load-line of Vessels.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 17th May, 1911.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance of the provisions
of section 36 of the Shipping and Seamen Amendment
Act, 1909,

JOHN DOWD

has been appointed a Master Mariner to act with a Surveyor of Ships at the Port of Auckland in fixing the
position of the load-line of vessels referred to in the said
section.

J. A. MILLAR.