1930
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 51

Notice to Mariners No. 33 of 1933.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 18th July, 1933.

THE 1931 INTERNATIONAL CODE OF SIGNALS.

Former Notices.—Nos. 24 and 48 of 1932.

It has now been agreed that the new International Code of Signals will come into use on the 1st January, 1934.

As previously announced, the new code consists of two volumes: Volume I for visual and sound signalling, and Volume II, radio signalling.

Special attention is drawn to the fact that the existing pilot signal S (“I want a pilot”) is replaced by the letter G (“I require a pilot”). No alteration is, however, made in the case of the two-letter signals, PT, NC, and JD, which retain their old and well established meanings.

In the quarantine signals, the flag signal Q will indicate a clean bill of health, while the two-flag signals, QQ and QL, will indicate an infected ship. The new night signal (to be used only when within the precincts of a port) will consist of a red light over a white light, the lights being not more than 6 ft. apart. It should be carefully noted that the new pilot and quarantine signals are not to be used until the new code comes into force on the 1st January, 1934.

Masters and officers should, during the remainder of the year, take all possible opportunities to familiarize themselves with the new code and its procedure, and to practise its use with other ships. A suitable procedure, when it is desired to exchange communications by the new code, would be to hoist the code pendant with the fly tied to the halyards, to which signal the answering ship, if able to communicate in the new code, would reply by a similar hoist. Should the answering ship only be able to communicate in the old code, she would hoist the code pendant as at present. The radio-signalling volume might also be used experimentally for radio communication until it comes into general use on the 1st January.

Copies of the publication may be purchased at any Mercantile Marine Office. Price, Vol. I or II, 18s.

Authority.—Board of Trade General Notice to Mariners, 1/6/33.

L. B. CAMPBELL, Acting-Secretary.

(M. 7/6/99.)

Notice to Mariners No. 34 of 1933.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 18th July, 1933.

NEW ZEALAND.—NORTH ISLAND.—WEST COAST.

Manukau Harbour Entrance: Alteration in Line of Beacons.

Position.—Lat., 37° 03′ S.; long., 174° 33′ E. (approx.).

Details.—The line of the main lighted leading beacons has been altered from 069½° to 068½°.

Chart affected.—2726.

Publications.—New Zealand Pilot, 1930, pages 58 and 60. Admiralty List of Lights, Part VI, 1930, Nos. 3466 and 3467. New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide Tables, page 161, Nos. 86 and 87, page 257, and plan of entrance.

Authority.—Auckland Harbour Board, 11/7/33.

L. B. CAMPBELL, Acting-Secretary.

(M. 6/2/28.)

Public Trust Office Act, 1908, and its Amendments.—Election to administer Estates.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Public Trustee has filed in the Supreme Court an election to administer in respect of the several estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations (so far as known) are hereunder set forth.

Public Trust Office, Wellington, 17th July, 1933.

J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

Mining Privileges struck off Register.—Notice under the Mining Act, 1926.

Mining Registrar’s Office, Queenstown, 14th July, 1933.

NOTICE is hereby given, in accordance with the provisions of section 188 of the Mining Act, 1926, that the mining privileges held under the licenses mentioned in the Schedule hereto have this day been struck off the Register.

P. W. J. COCKERILL, Mining Registrar.

SCHEDULE.