GUNNERY PRACTICE WILL BE CARRIED OUT IN THE VICINITY OF WEIHAIWEL THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER MONTHS.
I.-A Target Trot, consisting of two red iron mooring Buoys joined together and 80 yard apart, in a W.N.W. and E.S.E. direction, will be moored in a position 4 miles N.N.E. of Chaopeitsui Lighthouse.
Two lines of red iron Buoys, each line consisting of three Buoys, 400 yards apart, in a W.N.W. and E.S.E. direction, will be moored each side of the Trot, i.e., four miles in all. From the centre of the Trot, the centre Buoys of these lines bear respectively:-
N.N.E. 1,400 yards.
N.N.E. 915 "
S.S.W. 915 37 S.S.W. 1,400
II.- A similar Target Trot will be moored S. 70° E., 9 cables from North extreme of Itau (Sun) Island. Line of Trot, W.N.W. and E.S.E. Two lines of red iron Buoys, each consisting of three Buoys, 400 yards apart, in a W.N.W. and E.S.E. direction, will be moored to the Southward of the above.
From the centre of the Trot, the centre Buoys of these lines bear respectively:- S.S.W. 915 yards. S.S.W. 1.400
All bearings are magnetic.
All these Target Buoys will remain in position till the middle of August, when they will be removed without further notice.
No. 14 of 1911.
INDIA-WEST COAST-COCHIN.
INFORMATION has been received from the Port Officer, Cochin, that the Bar and Spit buoys at Cochin Harbour entrance and the Quarantine buoy in the inner harbour will be removed for the ensuing monsoon on 15th May 1911 and that the bright fixed light at Mallipuram will be exhibited from the flagstaff from the 15th May to 30th September 1911.
T. A. L. DE BERRY, Commander, R.IM., Presidency Port Officer.
PRESIDENCY PORT OFFICE,
Madras, 12th April, 1911.
APPROACHES TO BOMBAY,
ON 10th May 1911 a Pilot Schooner will take over the duties of the Pilot Station from the three masted vessel at present anchored there.
PORT OFFICE,
BOMBAY, 27th April, 1911.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
No. 5 of 1911.
E. J. BEAUMONT, Commander, R.I.M.,
Port Officer, Bombay.
SPENCER GULF AND WEST COAST.
MASTERS of Vessels, Pilots, and others are hereby informed that arrangements are being made for the erection at an early date of unattended long-burning "A.G.A." Lights on the undermentioned dangers :-
SPENCER GULF.
Dangerous Reef,
Shoalwater Point,
Lat. 34° 49′ S. .33° 40′ S.
Long. 136° 12' E.
137° 13′ E.
Wedge Island,
.35° 10' S.
Winceby Island,
.34° 291′ S.
136° 29′ E. 136° 17′ E.
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