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The Government of the Philippine Islands Department of Commerce and Communications BUREAU OF COMMERCE AND Industry
NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 569.
Sangley Point.
MANILA.
October 28, 1919.
DUE to the construction of two fuel oil tanks in Sangley Point, the light is at present theoretically obscured over a certain sector in the case of each tank. Thus visible over an arc of 234" from N. 69° W. to S. 15° E. and an are of 24° from N. 74° W. to S. 82o W. The height of this light will be raised as soon as practicable in order to re-establish the normal condition.
(See No. 28, List of Lights, etc., 1918.)
FIDEL A. REYES,
Acting Director.
SPECIAL NOTICE TO MARINErs, No. 548.
CHINA SEA.
SHANGHAI DISTRICT.
Yangtze River-Tungchow Channel.
Buoys to be Moved-Buoy to be Withdrawn-Buoy to be Established.
NOTICE is hereby given that on or about the 18th November, 1919, the following alterations will be made in the buoyage of the Tungchow Channel, Yangtze River, owing to changes in the channel found by a recent re-survey :
The Reach Buoy will be moved about cable S. 40° W. from its present posi-,
tion, its characteristics remaining unchanged.
The Central Buoy will be moved about 3 cables S. 44° E. from its present posi-
tion, its characteristics remaining unchanged.
The Bank Buoy will be moved about 43 cables S. 43° E. from its present posi-
tion, its characteristics remaining unchanged.
The Turning Buoy will be moved about 8 cables S. 47° E. from its present posi-
tion, its characteristics remaining unchanged.
The Upper Crossing Buoy will be discontinued.
A black Buoy, surmounted by a black spherical daymark, and to be known as the Pagoda Buoy, will be moored in about 33 feet of water on the western side of the northern approach to the Tungchow Channel. From the Buoy, Langshan Pagoda will bear about N. 49° E., distant 41 miles.
All bearings given are magnetic, and depths are those of low water of extraordinary spring tides.
H. E. HILLMAN, Deputy Coast Inspector
(for Coast Inspector).
COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,
SHANGHAI, 30th October, 1919.
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