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the Harbour Master or other duly qualified Port Health Authority at the port corned certifying that such vessel has been thoroughly fumigated in all parts, may be allowed to load and discharge at a wharf under the following conditions:-

1.-that the work of loading and discharging shall go on between the hours

of sunrise and sunset only;

2.-that at sunset loading and discharging shall cease; all cargo ports and hatchways shall be closed, and gang-way planks between the vessel and the wharf withdrawn ;

3.-that all ropes, etc., used for securing the vessel to a wharf or pontoon shall have rat guards, of a pattern approved by the Harbour Master, efficiently fixed thereto; 4.-that a sufficient number of floating fenders shall be placed between the

vessel and the wharf, to keep her at least four feet clear of the wharf- fender ropes to be made fast to the wharf and not to the vessel.

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On every arrival from an infected port a new certificate of fumigation must be sented in order to obtain the privileges of discharging at a wharf. Such fumiga- tion in order to qualify vessels for this privilege must have taken place (1) at Shanghai immediately before departure for an infected ort, (2) at the infected port during the vessel's last visit there, or (3) at Shanghai, after arrival from au infected port and before discharge of cargo begins.

(B) No packages of cargo showing signs of having given shelter to rats or of having been attacked by them shall be allowed to leave the vessel until after being opened, in a place where escaping rats can be destroyed, and having their contents disin- fected."

This Regulation will be enforced against vessels from Hongkong.

Approved :

H. F. MERRILL,

Commissioner of Customs.

CUSTOM HOUSE, SHANGHAI, 6th May, 1912.

No. 528.

CHINA SEA.

SHANGHAI DISTRICT.

Elgar Island Light Established.

H. G. MYHRE,

Deputy Harbour Master.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Light on Elgar Island was exhibited for the first time at sunset on the 9th May, 1912.

The illuminating apparatus is Group Flashing of the Fourth Order, showing three white lightning flashes in quick succession every 20 seconds.

The Light-tower is situated on the eastern summit of the island, and the Light, which is elevated 205 feet above the level of the sea, should be visible in clear weather at a distance of 20 nautical miles, except where obscured by islands between the bearings of, approxi- mately, S. 65° E. and N. 42° E. through E.

The tower is round, of steel, 12 feet high, with a total height from base to lantern vane of 26 feet.

The tower and dwellings are painted white.

Approximate position:-

Latitude

Longitude

All bearings are magnetic and from seaward.

30° 26' 0" N.

122° 31′ 20′′ E.

By Order of the Inspector General of Customs,

IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS,

COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,

SHANGHAI, 10th May, 1912.

T. J. ELDRIDGE,

Deputy Coast Inspector,

(For Coast Inspector).