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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 20, 1909.
TRANSLATION.
Notification No. 676 of Department of Communications.
LIGHTS FROM DAIBA-HANA LIGHTHOUSE AND NAKAIO-SHIMA
LIGHTHOUSE TO BE DISCONTINUED.
NOTICE is hereby given that the light from Daiba-hana Lighthouse on Takenoko-jima at the west entrance to Shimonoseki Strait, and the light from Nakato-shima Lighthouse on Nakato-shima in Kurushima Strait will be permanently discontinued on August 15th, 1909.
TOKYO, July 17th, 1909.
(TRANSLATION.)
FORMOSA.
BARON GOTO SHIMPEI, Minister of State for Communications.
ENTRANCE TO HOKO HARBOUR.
Beacon Light.
Notification No. 98.
NOTICE is hereby given that on and after the 15th inst. the existing beacon on Fuon, mouth of Hoko Harbour, Pescadores Island, will be altered to a Lighted Beacon, and a Fixed Red Light will be shown from it.
The lantern of the beacon is fixed at the top of an Iron Staff, painted Red, and the centre of the Light will be 264 feet high up from the base.
The Light will illuminate 253 degrees of the horizon from N. 53 deg. W., through north, east and south, to S. 20. deg. W. The bearings are magnetic and from seaward.
The intensity of the Light will be a little under 100 candles. The Light will be 341 feet high above high water and visible in clear weather at a distance of 6 nautical miles.
The Light being to be kept burning day and night by self-feeding arrangement, without attendance of a keeper, should it go out by accident, there may be some delay before relight- ing it. Mariners are hereby cautioned accordingly.
TAIPEI, July 15th, 1909,
COUNT SAMATA SAKUMA, Governor-General of Formosa,
SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
No. 9 of 1909.
KANGAROO ISLAND-SOUTH-WEST COAST.
CAPE DE COUEDIE LIGHTHOUSE.
REFERRING to Notice to Mariners No. 8 of 1909, Masters of Vessels and others are hereby informed that the Light referred to therein was first exhibited on the night of the 27th instant, and will continue to be shown as advised in the above-mentioned Notice, dated April 17th last.
This affects Admiralty Chart 2389A.
Marine Board Offices, Port Adelaide, June 28th, 1909.
ARTHUR SEARCY, President of the Marine Board.
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