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CANTON DISTRICT.

LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS.

No. 154.

Rock in Back Reach, Canton Harbour.-Buoy Marking Permanently Established.

Referring to Local Notice to mariners No. 152, Notice is hereby given that the buoy therein referred to (to be known hereafter as the Sha Chung Rock Buoy) is now esta- blished as a permanent Aid to Navigation in the Canton District.

The following particulars are given for the information of navigators :-----

The Rock, marked by the buoy, will be known as the Sha Chung () Rock. It is situated off Messrs. Jardine, Matheson Co.'s new property (late Hamburg American Line property) in the Back Reach of Canton Harbour. The rock extends for 100 feet up and down river, parallel to the bund wall; and has an extreme width of 30 feet.

The buoy is moored over the middle of the rock, in a direct line, up and down river, between the lowest soundings. At 40 and 50 feet below, or to the Southward of, the buoy are two soundings of 10 feet and 11.5 feet L.W.S. respectively. At 50 feet to the North- ward of the buoy is a sounding of 11.7 feet L.W.S.

The buoy is painted black, and exhibits a green light between sunset and sunrise.

ARNOLD HOTSON,

Harbour Master.

HARBOUR MASTER'S OFFICE,

CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS,

Approved:

CANTON, 10th February, 1920.

A. WILSON,

Acting Commissioner of Customs.

SPECIAL NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 556.

CHINA SEA.

Canton District-Canton River.

COLLINSON REACH BARRIER LIGHT-STATION.

Fog Signal-Reversion to Original Characteristics.

NOTICE is hereby given that the original characteristics of the fog signal at Collinson Reach Barrier (steamer passage) Light-station, Canton River, have been reverted to and are now as follows:-

During fog or thick weather a bell will be struck every 6 seconds.

COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,

T. J. ELDRIDGE,

Coast Inspector.

SHANGHAI, 16th February, 1920.

China Station Hydrographical Memoranda.

6. China East Coast-Tsingtau.

(I) ALTERATION IN BUOYAGE.

The seventeen buoys marking the approaches and channel into the harbour have been removed for the winter, to avoid damage by drift ice, from December 10th, 1919, until March 10th, 1920, with the exception of No. 6 Red buoy (marking the Horse Shoe Reef off the Junk Harbour) which is left in position.

(China No. 785).

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