✨ Marine Department Notices
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 64
Defining River, Extended River, and Extreme Limits.
Marine Department,
Wellington, 12th August, 1913.
IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 189 of the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908, I, Francis Marion Bates Fisher, Minister of Marine, do hereby define the limits, for the ports set forth in the first column of the Schedule hereto, within which restricted-limit steamships, and ships propelled by gas, oil, fluid, electricity, or any mechanical power other than steam, and to which restricted-limit certificates are issued, may ply, to be those set forth in the second, third, and fourth columns of the said Schedule respectively; and I do also hereby revoke all Warrants heretofore in force defining any of the said limits.
F. M. B. FISHER,
Minister of Marine.
SCHEDULE.
| Name of Port. | River and Smooth-water Limits. | Extended and Partially Smooth Limits. | Extreme River Limits. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akaroa | Within Akaroa Heads | Nil | Between Akaroa and Lyttelton. |
| Aotea | Inside a right line drawn from Potahi Point to Kapua-te-mauna | " | Nil. |
| Auckland | Inside Rangitoto Reef, Tamaki Strait, not beyond Koherunui Point, and inside Waiheke Channel | Inside a right line drawn from Hautapu Point, on the Coromandel Peninsula, to Shearer Rock, off Tiri Tiri Island, and thence to Tawharanui Point | " |
| Awanui | Inside a line drawn from Blackney Point to Motu-tara Rocks and thence west-south-west magnetic to the beach | Inside a line drawn from Cape Karaka to Farmer Point | " |
| Bay of Islands | Inside a right line drawn from Tapeka Point to Brampton Bank | Inside a right line drawn from Cape Wiwiki to Cape Brett | " |
| Bluff | Not beyond Sterling Point | Within a radius of twenty miles from light on Sterling Point; tugs, pilot vessels, and dredges | " |
| Catlin’s River | Within Catlin’s River Heads | Nil | " |
| Coromandel | Inside a right line drawn from Deadman Point to Hautapu Point | Inside a right line drawn from Hautapu Point, on the Coromandel Peninsula, to Shearer Rock, off Tiri Tiri Island, and thence to Tawharanui Point | " |
| Dunedin and Port Chalmers | Inside Taiaroa Head, not beyond one mile outside Taiaroa Head; pilot vessels and tugs | Within a radius of thirty miles from Taiaroa Head Light-house; fishing-boats only | " |
| Great Barrier Isl’d—Port Abercrombie and Port Fitzroy | Inside a right line drawn from the outermost point of Green Island to Wellington Head and thence to False Head | Within a radius of three miles from the coast-line of the island | " |
| Port Tryphena | Inside a right line drawn from the outermost point of the eastern head to the outermost point of the north-western head | Ditto | " |
| Greymouth | Inside the Bar of the Grey River | Not more than ten miles from Signal Flagstaff; tugs and dredges not carrying passengers | " |
| Havelock | Within Pelorus Sound | Between Picton, Queen Charlotte Sound and French Pass | " |
| Herekino | Inside the Bar of the Herekino River | Nil | " |
| Hokianga | Inside the Hokianga Heads | " | " |
| Hokitika | Inside the Bar of the Hokitika River | " | " |
| Invercargill | Inside the Bar of the New River | " | " |
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NZ Gazette 1913, No 64
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NZ Gazette 1913, No 64
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🚂 Definition of River, Extended River, and Extreme Limits for Ports
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Shipping and Seamen Act, Port limits, Marine Department, Restricted-limit steamships
- Francis Marion Bates Fisher, Minister of Marine