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No. S. 109.
NOTICES TO MARINERS.
CAUTION.
All junks and other Chinese craft are warned against crossing or passing close to any Submarine Boat when under weigh as these Submarines have a large part of their hull sub- merged so to avoid collision which would be fatal to any junk colliding. A safe distance from them must be kept.
C. W. BECKWITH, Commander, R.N., Harbour Master, &c.
HONGKONG, 1st May, 1911.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
No. 9 of 1911.
SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN.
MASTERS of vessels and others are hereby informed that a report has been received from the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia that the master of the S.S. Providence, when on a voyage from Newcastle, New South Wales, to Suva, passed over discolored water, which he believes covers an uncharted bank, in lat. 21° 31' S., long, 176° 36′ E.
The sup- posed bank seemed to run in an E.N.E. and W.S.W. direction.
This affects Admiralty Chart 2683.
Marine Board Offices, Port Adelaide, March 25th, 1911.
ARTHUR SEARCY, President of the Marine Board.
HARBOUR NOTIFICATION,
No. 4 of 1911.
REFERRING to Harbour Notification No. 2 of 1911, notice is hereby given that the Superintendent of Customs and the Treaty Power Consuls having withdrawn the declaration of infection as regards Newchwang, Chinwantao, Tientsin, Dairen and Chefoo, the General Medical Inspection of vessels arriving from these ports is to be discontinued from the 29th April, 1911.
The importation, however, of the following articles from the above named ports is still provisionally prohibited :
Rags, old paper, old gunny bags, earth, mould, and coffins containing corpses.
IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS,
HARBOUR MASTER'S OFFICE,
Approved:
CANTON, 26th April, 1911.
F. W. MAZE,
Commissioner,
ARNOLD HOTSON,
Acting Harbour Master.