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Description:-Circular concrete tower, white.
Height of Light :-40 shaku above the base, 144 shaku above the water.
Character of Light:-Fourth order, flashing alternately red and white, every 15
seconds.
Illuminated arc :--An arc 265° 40′, from N. 8° W., through N., E., and S., to S. 77° 40′ W. (magnetic bearings taken from the sea).
Power: 2,000 candles.
Visible distance :-18 nautical miles in clear night.
UTARO NODA,
Minister of State for Communications.
TOKYO, December 1st, 1919.
TRANSLATION.
Notification No. 1551 of Department of Communications.
North Coast of Kyushu.
NOTICE is hereby given that Okino-shima Staff Light, on Okino-shima, Tsushima Strait, was destroyed by fire on the 1st instant.
Further notice will be given when it has been reconstructed.
UTARO NODA,
· Minister of State for Communications.
TOKYO, December 5th, 1919.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. S. 374.-It is hereby notified that sealed tenders in duplicate, which should be clearly marked "Tender for Quarries" will be received at this Office until Noon on Monday the 22nd day of December, 1919, for the letting of the undermentioned Granite Quarries at Hongkong, Kowloon, and the New Territories, for one year from the 1st January, 1920.
Each tender must be accompanied by a receipt to the effect that the tenderer has deposited in the Colonial Treasury a sum as stated in the schedule hereunder opposite to each quarry, as a pledge of the bonâ fides of his offer, which sum shall be forfeited to the Crown, if the tenderer refuses to carry out his tender and comply with the conditions hereinafter contained, should the tender be accepted.
The Government does not bind itself to accept the highest or any tender.
Forms of tender can be obtained from the Director of Public Works.
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