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Details.. The Auxiliary Fixed Light with White and Red Sectors exhibited from the Lighthouse 60 feet below the Main Light, and showing Red over Lipson Reef and White over Casuarina Island will be discontinued on or about 1st May, 1917.

Charts affected.--Admiralty Chart No. 2389, St. Vincent & Spencer Gulfs.

No. 2759b, Australia, Southern Portion.

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Publications affected.--Admiralty List of Lights and Time Signals, Part VI., 1916,

No. 2346.

Australia Directory, Vol. I., 1907, page 303, supplement 1910.

By Direction,

JOSHUA F. RAMSBOTHAM,

Director of Lighthouses.

Department of Trade and Customs,

MELBOURNE, 24th January, 1917.

STEPHEN MILLS, Comptroller-General of Customs.

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA,

1917. No. 4.

The Astronomical positions are only approximate unless seconds are given. The bearings are given both True and Magnetic, and those relating to lights are from seaward. The visibility of lights is that in clear weather. Fog signals are sounded only in thick or foggy weather. The heights given are heights of focal plane above high water.

AUSTRALIA-SOUTH COAST.

Backstairs Passage.

Yatala Shoal-Light buoy established.

WITH reference to Notice No. 7 of 1916, Mariners and others are hereby notified that the lighted buoy on Yatala Shoal is now established.

Position. On the north-western side of Yatala Shoal in 10 fathoms of water L.W.S.

23° (N. 18° E. Magnetic) distant 41, miles from Cape St. Alban.

Latitude, 35° 44' S., Longitude, 138° 10' E.

Description.-A cylindrical light buoy with framework super-structure 13 feet high, painted in red and white horizontal bands, exhibiting a flashing white light every six seconds, thus :--

Power.--1,300 candles.

Visibility.-Eight miles.

Flash

Eclipse

sec.

5 secs.

Charts affected.--Admiralty Chart No. 25-Backstairs Passage.

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2389-St. Vincent & Spencer Gulfs. 1014-Cape Jervis to Rivoli Bay. 2759b-Australia, Southern Portion.

Publications affected. Australia Directory, Vol. I., 1907, page 314.

By Direction,

JOSHUA F. RAMSBOTHAM,

Director of Lighthouses.

Department of Trade and Customs,

MELBOURNE, 25th January, 1917.

STEPHEN MILLS,

Comptroller-General of Customs.