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During the same period there has been delivered out of the Depôt:
1907.
Approximate
For Sale in the Colony :-
Gunpowder, privately owned,
Cartridges, privately owned,
Explosive Compounds, privately owned,
Non-explosives, privately owned,
For Export:-
Gunpowder, privately owned,
Cartridges, privately owned.......
Explosive Compounds, privately owned, Non-explosives, privately owned,
Total,
1908.
Approximate
No. of Cases No. Weight No. of Cases Weight lb. lb. 99 2,800 985 20,725 19 3,175 149 40,625 612 34,100 100 8,825 2,100 45,265 1,332 213,450 183 10,450 2,492 61,675 359 43,875 413 21,550 125 18 1,875 4,347 309,365 4,516 198,950On the 31st December, 1908, there remained as follows:-
1908. 1907. Approximate Approximate No. of Cases. Weight. No. of Cases. Weight. lb. lb. 41 1,255 1,731 39,093 89 3,802 31 501 110,660 1,347 3,002 236,800 11 1,100 17 1,700 1,471 77,903 353 24,978 19 679 34 1,614 2253 350 2 60 10 Total, 2,137 200,684 3,519 307,549Appendix. E.
LIGHTHOUSES.
GAP ROCK.
Telegraphic communication was interrupted for 20 days during the year.
During the year Eight hundred and forty-six (846) vessels were reported as passing this Station and Fifty (50) were not reported owing to telegraphic communication being interrupted.
Six hundred and sixty-one (661) Telegraphic Messages were received and Three thousand four hundred and two (3,402) were sent including weather reports for the Observatory.
There were Two hundred hours and ten minutes (200h. 10m.) Fog and the Fog Gun was fired one thousand two hundred and thirty-one times (1,231).
On Four occasions the Relief was delayed owing to the prevailing Bad Weather and Rough Sea.
WAGLAN ISLAND.
One thousand two hundred and nineteen (1,219) vessels were reported and in addition one thousand three hundred and thirty-two (1,332) Messages were sent and two hundred and ninety-nine (299) recorded.
Owing to the telegraphic communication being interrupted Seven hundred and thirteen (713) vessels were not reported.