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Details.--The Fixed Red Light with White Sectors will be replaced by a New Light having the undermentioned characteristics :---

Character. Group Flashing White Light with Red Sectors, showing four flashes.

in quick succession every twelve seconds, thus

Flash

Eclipse

sec.

1 sec.

Flash

sec.

Eclipse

1 sec.

Flash

Eclipse

sec.

3

Flash

Eclipse

sec.

1 sec.

73 secs.

Sectors. Red from 233° (S. 15° W. Mag.) to 249° (S. 61° W. Mag.); White from 249° (S. 61° W. Mag.) to 39° (N. 31° E. Mag.); Red from 39° (N. 31° E. Mag.) to 48° (N. 40° E. Mag.); obscured elsewhere.

Visibility.White, 20 miles. Red, 9 miles.

Power.---White, 7,000 candles. Red, 3,000 candles.

Auxiliary Light.-The Auxiliary Fixed White Light will be discontinued, on or about 1st October, 1919.

Remarks, The Light will be unwatched. The Signal Station will be discontinued, and the Lightkeepers withdrawn. The other details of the light will remain unchanged.

Note. No further notice will be given.

Charts affected.--Admiralty Chart No. 1695B-Bass Strait, Western sheet.

2759--Australia, Southern portion.

"

27

788 Melbourne to Cape Horn, Western

sheet.

Publications affected.-Admiralty List of Lights and Time Signals, Part VI., 1918,

No. 2413.

Australia Pilot, Vol. II., 1918, page 82.

By Direction,

R. McK. OAKLEY,

Acting Comptroller-General of Customs.

B. WALLACH,

Arting Director of Lighthouses.

Department of Trade and Customs,

MELBOURNE, 11th June, 1919.

The Government of the Philippine Islands Department of Commerce and Communications. BUREAU OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY MANILA

NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 555.

Guardia Shoal.

July 26, 1919.

THE acetylene gas buoy, showing one white flash every three (3) seconds, on Guardia Shoal, at the entrance to Manila Bay, North Channel, will be discontinued in the near future, and mariners are advised accordingly.

(See No. 29, List of Buoys, Beacons, etc., 1918.)

FIDEL A. REYES, Acting Director.