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The Government of the Philippine Islands Department of Finance
BUREAU OF CUSTOMS
MANILA
June 30, 1917.
NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 484.
Rapu Rapu Strait.
THE second class red nun buoy on Southeastern edge of Columbia Reef has been replaced by a third class red nun buoy. Location and angles remain the same.
(See No. 65, List of Buoys, Beacons, etc., 1916.)
Clarendon Bay,
The third class red nun buoy on the Shoal at entrance to harbor has been replaced by a second class red nun buoy. Location and angles remain the same.
(See No. 157, List of Buoys,
Beacons, etc., 1916.)
J. S. STANLEY,
Insular Collector of Customs,
Vladivostok Time Ball.
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IN pursuance to the notification in the Notices to Mariners in the F.E.” No. 107/1915 it is hereby notified that the Naval Astronómical Observatory in Vladivostok, from June 1st (14th), will indicate the moment of the average Vladivostok Noon at the moment of:-
15 h. 12 min. 25-32 ser, average Greenwich time.
The method of indication will remain the same as specified by Notification No. 107, with the following supplements :---Should there occur an error in the indication of Noon time owing to exceptional causes or damage to machinery-then the Noon time ball will be hoisted from the base to the middle of the mast, where it will remain for one minute and after that will be slowly lowered,
Russian Coast.
IT is notified that the lighting of Closter Camp Lighthouse at the entrance of St. Olga's Bay with de-Castries Lights has been resumed on the 8th and of Jonquieres Lighthouse on the 9th April.
The lighting of Petropavlovsk Lighthouse has been resumed on 1st April and of Nikolaievsky Lighthouse with "Milioutin " lights on the 3rd April.
SPECIAL NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 483.
CHINA SEA.
SHANGHAI DISTRICT--YANGTZE RIVER.
Liu Creek towards Vine Point-Positions of Surveying Beacons to be Re-arranged.
NOTICE is hereby given that a re-arrangement of the positions of the Surveying Beacons on the banks of the Yangtze River between Liu Creek and Vine Point will shortly be commenced, and until further notice the positions of these Beacons, as indicated on Marine Department Charts Nos. 2 and 3, should not be used for purposes of navigation.
W. FERD. TYLER,
Coast Inspector.
COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,
SHANGHAI, 4th July, 1917.
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