78 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JAN. 24, 1906.
No. 66.
TRANSLATION.
Notification No. 12 of Department of Communications.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
HOKKAIDO.
NOTICE is hereby given that, the Fog Signul at Wakkanai Lighthouse, Province of Kitami, Hokkaido, which has been stopped to sound temporarily, in order to be repaired, as notified with the Notification No. 630, on the 12th December, 1905, will be sounded as ever.
TOKYO, January 11th, 1906.
YAMAGATA ISABURO, Minister of State for Communications,
TRANSLATION.
Notification No. 13 of Department of Communications.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
MOORING OF FUKUSE BUOY.
NOTICE is hereby given that, a buoy made of Iron, Conical in shape, surmounted by a Spheri- cal Cage, painted Red and Black Horizontal Bands, which has the height of 12 feet above the Water, is moored into the 7 Fathoms Water, distant about 420 feet N. from the Former Position of Beacon Light of Fukuse, Southern Extremity of Hirato-shima, Province of Hizen, Nagasaki Prefecture.
TOKYO, January 11th, 1906.
YAMAGATA ISABURO, Minister of State for Communications.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 417.
CHINA SEA.
WEST RIVER-KONGMOON DISTRICT,
WANGMOON ENTRANCE LIGHT AND WANGMOON BEACON LIGHT.
NOTICE is hereby given that the following Lights have been established in the Wangmoon entrance to the West River and that they were exhibited for the first time at sunset on the 7th November, 1905.
WANGMOON ENTRANCE LIGHT.
The illuminating apparatus is Dioptric, Group Occulting, of the Sixth Order, showing a fixed white light varied by four eclipses every 30 seconds, thus :-
Light
Eclipse...
Light
Eclipse.......
Light
Eclipse......
Light
Eclipse.......
16 seconds:
2
2
2
2
2
"
2
2
and so on.
The Light, which is on the western edge of the Swashway, is hoisted on a mast surmounting a white lantern hut on the top of au iron screw pile structure painted black, The Light is elevated 40 feet above high water and should be visible in clear weather at a distance of 10 nautical miles.
Approximate position :-
Latitude, Longitude,
22° 35′ 20′′ N, .113° 37′ 10′′ E.
WANGMOON BEACON LIGHT.
The Beacon, from which is exhibited a fixed white light visible in clear weather at a distance of 1 nautical mile, consists of a pole surmounted by a black spherical shape.
It marks the southern edge of the bank abreast of Cone Island.
Approximate position :-
Latitude,
Longitude,....
22° 34′ 50′′ N. 113° 34′ 00′′ E.
By Order of the Inspector General of Customs,
IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS,
COAST INSPEector's OFFICE,
SHANGHAI, 5th Junuary, 1906.
W. FERD. TYLER, Coast Inspector.
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