244
Telegraphic and telephonic communication has been kept up with the Gap Rock, Cape d'Aguilar and Waglan Island during the year.
From Gap Rock Station, 892 vessels have been reported as passing, and in addition 181 messages were received and 3,769 sent, including the daily weather report for the Observatory. Owing to telegraphic conmunication being interrupted 20 vessels were not reported.
Forty-six hours and fifty minutes of fog were reported from Gap Rock during the
year,
and the fog signal gun was fired 357 times. On no occasion was the relief delayed by the rough sea.
From Cape d'Aguilar Station 1,987 vessels were reported, and in addition 1,886 messages were seut and 26 received.
From Waglan Island Station, 1,952 vessels were reported, and in addition 55 messages were sent and 69 received. Owing to the telephonic communication being interrupted, 192 vessels were not reported.
Two hundred and eighteen hours and forty-eight minutes of fog were reported from Waglan Island during the year, and the fog signal gun was fired 2,260 times On no occasion was the relief delayed by the rough sea.
GOVERNMENT GUNPOWDER DEPOT.
22. During the year 1903 there has been stored in the Government Gunpowde Depôt, Stonecutters' Island:-
No.
of Cases.
Approximate Weight:
lbs.
Gunpowder, privately owned,
6,655
155,915
Do., Government owned,
2,292
127,346
Cartridges, privately owned,
2,780
621,925
Do.. Government owned,
47
4,700
Explosive Compounds, privately owned,
52
7,103
Do.,
Government owned;
456
65.122
Non-explosives, privately owned,
600
Do..
Government owned,
Total,.
12.286
982,711
During the same period there has been delivered out of the Depôt:----
No.
of Cases.
Approximate Weight.
Ibs.
For Sale in the Colony:-
Gunpowder, privately owned.
224
5,745
Cartridges, privately owned;.
88
20,975
Explosive Compounds, privately owned,.......!
10
1,150
Non-explosives, privately owned,
For Export:-
Gunpowder, privately owned,
612
Cartridges, privately owned,
1.172
20.615 255,325
Explosive Compounds, privately owned,.. Non-explosives, privately owned,
4
600
Total,..
2,110
304,410