1256 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 4, 1907.

No. 668.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA (WEST COAST).

Alterations and additions to Beacons and Buoys in Shark Bay.

Blind Straits.-Buoys in this channel now removed.

Inner Bar.-Two Beacons, each an iron telegraph pole with drum on head, painted white and 492 feet apart, are erected on Red Cliffs just South of middle of conspicuous sandpatch.

Brown's Anchorage.-A Black Perch Buoy with staff and cage is moored in 3 fathoms Low Water. This Buoy kept in line with gable of woolshed Bg. S. 22° W. leads into and marks anchorage.

Heirisson Flats. At the North extreme of this shoal a red Nun Buoy with cage is moored in 4 fathoms Low Water.

Bar Flats.-On the S. W. and South edge of this shoal two Black Perch Buoys are moored. They are moored in 7 fathoms of water and mark the North side of Denham Channel.

Anchorage. At Denham Anchorage a Black Cask Buoy is moored in four fathoms Low

Water.

Lights.-There are two lights at Denham. The Upper fixed White is visible five miles and the Lower Red fixed is visible for about three miles. They are used by local small craft and, kept in line, keep clear off shoal water South of Denham.

Wells.--Four more wells are placed on Dirk Hartog Island.

Buoys.-The anchorage Buoy at Gascoyne Roads has now been removed.

Charts affected.

No. 618 Shark Bay; No. 1056 C. Cuvier to Champion Bay.

16th July, 1907.

C. J. IRVINE,

Chief Harbour Master.

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