THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 16, 1909. 229
No. 247.
NOTICES TO MARINERS.
HARBOUR NOTIFICATION.
No. 1 of 1909.
NOTICE is hereby given that diving operations to remove the Hulk "Grosvenor", lying sunk near Butterfield & Swire's new Wharf, are now in progress.
Whilst the divers are at work a red flag will be shown at the flagstaff on the wharf. All steam vessels, of whatever size, must at such times go dead slow when approaching and passing the sunken vessel, so as not to cause a surge.
Approved:
R. A. CURRIE,
Acting Deputy Commissioner of Customs.
CUSTOM HOUSE, Swarow, 6th April, 1909.
A. HOLZ, Harbour Master.
TRANSLATION.
Notification No. 433 of Department of Communications.
MIKOMOTO-JIMA LIGHT AND MUROTO-ZAKI LIGHT
CHANGED IN CANDLE POWER.
NOTICE is hereby given that Mikomoto-jima Light on Mikomoto-jima, south of Shi- moda Harbour, Izu province, has been increased to 26,000 in candle power, and Muroto- zaki Light on Muroto-zaki, Tosa province, Shikoku, to 500,000, on account of alteration of the illuminant.
BARON GOTO SHIMPEI,
TOKYO, March 31st, 1909.
Minister of State for Communications.
TRANSLATION.
Notification No. 434 of Department of Communications.
NOJIMA-ZAKI LIGHT CHANGED IN CHARACTER OF LIGHT
AND CANDLE POWER.
NOTICE is hereby given that Nojima-zaki Light on Nojima-zaki, Awa province, was changed on the 27th inst. as follows (see Notification No. 11 of Department of Communi- cations, January 1909):-
Character of Light:-Occulting white light, light 15 seconds, eclipsed 5 seconds.
Candle power -26,000.
TOKYO, March 31st, 1909.
BARON GOTO SHIMPEI, Minister of State for Communications.