THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 4TH AUGUST, 1905.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 493.
The following Letter is published for information :—–
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SIR,I have the honor to advise you that I am mailing you under separate cover five copies of Official Notice of the New Zealand International Exhibition to be held in Christchurch, New Zealand, during the summer of 1906-7.
This Exhibition is purely a Government undertaking and there is no speculative or proprietary element connected with it in anyway. Under these circumstances I ask you to bring this opportunity of extending and promoting trade under the notice of Commercial people likely to be interested either as Exhibitors or as Visitors.
Thanking you in anticipation, I have, etc.,
G. S. MUNRO,
Executive Commissioner and New Zealand
Correspondent to the Commercial
Intelligence Branch of the British Board of Trade.
Further particulars with regard to the New Zealand International Exhibition can be obtained upon application at the Colonial Secretary's Office.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th August, 1905.
T. SERCOMBE SMITH,
Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. —No. 494.
The following Notice to mariners is published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd August, 1905.
HONGKONG.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
PORT OF VICTORIA.
GREEN ISLAND LIGHT.
T. SERCOMBE SMITH,
Colonial Secretary.
Notice is hereby given that on and after the 1st of January, 1906, the existing light at GREEN ISLAND will be discontinued, and a light with the following characteristics substituted :----
The illuminating apparatus will be DIOPTRIC, of the FIRST ORDER, OCCULTING, for
3 seconds every 20 seconds.
The light will show WHITE from E.S., through West, to N.W. W. Thence RED to
N. E. From N. E. to E. S. it will be obscured by Green Island.
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The focal plane of the light will be 110 feet above High Water, and in clear weather it should
be seen at a distance of 18 Nautical Miles.
The Tower will be round, of brick, painted white.
The dwellings will be white.
The total height of the Lighthouse, from base to vane, will be 58 feet.
The position of the Lighthouse is ---Latitude 22° 17′ 18′′ N., Longitude 114° 6′ 42′′ E.
Harbour Department, Hongkong, 2nd August, 1905.
L. BARNES-LAWRENCE, Captain, R.N.,
Harbour Master, &c.