THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 4, 1907.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 436.
CHINA SEA.
CANTON RIVER--CANTON DISTRICT.
CHAIN ROCK LIGHT EXHIBITED.
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NOTICE is hereby given that the Chain Rock Light, in the Bocca Tigris, Canton River, was exhibited for the first time at sunset on the 24th November.
The illuminating appartus is Dioptric, of the Sixth Order, showing a fixed red light. The Light-tower is situated on Chain Rock, and the Light, which is elevated 33 feet above ordinary high-water level, should be visible in clear weather at a distance of 10 nautical miles.
The tower is a square brick structure, 304 feet high to the top of the parapet, total height from base to top of lantern of 36 feet.
The tower is painted brick colour.
Approximate position :-----
Latitude,...
Longitude,
22° 47′ 20′′ N. .113° 37′ 20′′ E.
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By Order of the Inspector General of Customs,
IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS,
COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,
SHANGHAI, 12th December, 1906,
SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
T. J. ELDRIDGE,
Acting Coast Inspector,
No. 23 of 1906.
GULF OF ST. VINCENT.
OUTER HARBOR, PORT ADELAIDE,
REFERRING to Notice to Mariners No. 22 of 1906, Masters of Vessels, Pilots, and others are notified that the Black Buoy, which had been removed from the North Bank to permit of deepening operations being proceeded with, has now been replaced in its original position.
ARTHUR SEARCY, President of the Marine Board.
Marine Board Offices, Port Adelaide, November 5th, 1996.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA,
No. 24 of 1906.
SPENCER GULF.
CORNY POINT LIGHT.
NOTICE is hereby given that on and after the night of December 1st, 1906, the charac- teristics of Corny Point Light will be altered, so that instead of the Light being Obscured over the Webb Rock and thence inshore, as at present, a Red Sector will be shown over this Are, ie., between the bearings of N.E. E. and N.E. by N. N., where it is shut in by the first point to the southward of the Lighthouse.
The Red Sector will be visible for 14 miles, the full range of the light. This affects Admiralty Chart No. 2389A and B.