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HARBOUR NOTIFICATION.
No. 2 of 1916.
Towage within Harbour Limits.
WITH reference to clause 14 of the Harbour Regulations for the Port of Canton, and to Harbour Notification No. 2 of 1914, which amends it, notice is hereby given that the restrictions as to towage have been further amended, and are now as follows :-
1. In the Back Reach, Central Harbour and West Reach; between the Harbour Limit at Macao Fort to the Southward, a line drawn from Honam Point to the British Consular Jetty to the Eastward, and the Harbour Limit at Lo Chun Creek to the West- ward:-
(1) Six boats may be towed (two of which are to be towed alongside and four astern) provided each boat towed does not exceed 70 feet in length and 15 feet in breadth.
(H). Of boats of the "cargo-boat" type, which exceed 70 feet in length and 15 feet in breadth, four may be towed (two of which are to be towed along- side and two astern).
(11) Of the larger class of "Rice junk" and "Hongkong trading junk" not
more than two may be towed.
(IV) Of the “Passenger boat" type (To Suen) only one may be towed, and it
shall always be towed alongside.
(V) The distance from the stern of the towing vessel to the stern of the last vessel towed shall at no time exceed 200 feet, and vessels towed astern shall be placed not more than 3 abreast.
2. In the Front Reach between the Harbour Limit at Shek Chung to the Eastward and a line drawn from Honam Point to the British Consular Jetty to the Westward :
(I) A vessel towing with the current shall at no time tow more than two boats and they must be towed alongside. If the vessel towed is of the large Rice junk or Hongkong trading junk" type not more than one shall be towed at one time, and it shall be towed alongside.
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1) A vessel towing against the current may tow four boats (two of which are to be alongside and two astern) provided each boat towed does not exceed 70 feet in length and 15 feet in breadth, and that the tow rope used for towing astern does not exceed 50 feet in length. When the boats towed are of the cargo-boat" type and exceed 70 feet in length and 15 feet in breadth not more than two shall be towed at one time. When of the large "Rice junk" or "Hongkong trading junk" type not more than one shall be towed at one time.
3. In all sections of the Harbour, and at all times, the vessel towing shall be of suffi- cient power to have complete command of the vessels towed.
ARNOLD HOTSON,
Acting Harbour Master.
HARBOUR MASTER'S OFFICE,
CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS,
CANTON, 7th June, 1916,
Approved:
FRANCIS A. CARL,
Commissioner of Customs.
HARBOUR NOTIFICATION.
REPAIRS to the apparatus having been effected the occulting Light at Singora, which according to a notification dated the 15th April last had been changed to a fixed light, will from this day forward its usual occulting light.
By order H.E. the Minister of Local Government,
PHYA CHASENYA BODI,
Harbour Master General.