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Return showing the Cost of Maintenance of the New Zealand Lighthouses, and the Quantity of Oil consumed at each, during the Year ended the 31st March, 1898.

Note.—This return does not include the cost of the periodical visits made to the lighthouses by the Government steamer with oil, stores, and provisions. The proportion of the steamer's expenses chargeable to this service is about £5,000 a year.

Return showing the Number of Notices to Mariners relating to Matters within the Colony issued by the Marine Department during the Year ended the 31st March, 1898.

Oil. Name of Lighthouse. Salaries. Gallons consumed. Value. and Contingencies. Totals. Cape Maria van Diemen Moko Hinou Tiri-Tiri .. .. ... Bean Rock Ponui Passage Cuvier Island Portland Island.. Napier Bluff Cape Palliser f .. Pencarrow Head Somes Island Cape Egmont Manukau Head Manukau South Head leading-lights Manukau North Head leading-lights Kaipara Head Brothers Tory Channel leading-lights Cape Campbell Godley Head Akaroa Head Moeraki Taiaroa Head Cape Saunders Nugget Point Waipapapa Point Dog Island Centre Island Puysegur Point Hokitika Cape Foulwind Farewell Spit Nelson Stephens Island French Pass £ s. d. 356 18 10 400 0 0 300 0 0 160 0 0 160 0 0 330 0 0 368 16 4 20 0 0 192 0 0 269 3 0 156 0 0 290 0 0 262 3 7 983 831 490 *89 75 1,341 792 Gas 324 945 214 577 536 170 146 547 677 166 560 533 598 542 535 652 881 560 780 862 888 Gas 490 533 236 1,805 123 £ s. d. 73 14 6 62 6 6 36 15 0 4 8 0 5 12 6 100 11 6 59 12 3 11 19 3 24 6 0 70 17 6 16 1 0 43 5 6 40 4 0 12 15 0 10 19 0 41 0 6 50 15 6 12 9 0 41 2 0 39 19 6 44 17 0 40 13 0 40 2 6 48 18 0 66 1 6 41 2 0 58 10 0 64 13 0 66 12 0 15 5 0 36 15 0 39 19 6 17 14 0 135 7 6 9 4 6 £ a. d. 127 11 7 106 9 7 37 17 6 50 3 2 17 11 8 95* 18 0 254 16 6 b 0 7 6 56 15 9 132 12 10° 52 11 5 a 77 15 7 45 3 2 e £ s. a. 558 4 11 568 16 1 374 12 6 214 11 2 183 i 2 526 9 6 683 5 1 32 6 9 273 1 9 472 13 4 224 12 5 411 1 1 347 10 9 120 0 0 276 10 0 503 0 2 90 0 0 281 6 11 265 0 0 270 0 0 270 0 0 293 6 8 280 0 0 270 16 8 260 0 0 377 19 1 361 18 9 353 i 3 15 0 0 290 0 0 349 1 9 261 0 0 385 0 0 210 0 0 ! 18 4 10 161 18 10 125 15 6 76 17 4 2 18 6 83 14 7 53 13 10 37 2 9 29 11 9 34 11 5 25 8 6 64 18 2 26 1 11 86 17 4 f 109 4 10 109 14 1 443 6 0 630 13 0 105 7 6 406 3 6 358 13 4 351 19 9 340 4 9 368 0 7 354 6 6 401 16 4 327 3 11 523 6 5 535 16 7 529 10 4 30 5 0 389 7 7 460 18 4 363 19 4 675 14 8 231 15 8 62 12 7 71 17 1 85 5 4 155 7 2B 12 11 2 Totals 9,048 6 0 19,481 1,484 8 6 2,328 2 11 12,860 17 5 * Kerosene, t First lighted 27th October, 1897. cost of repairs. d Includes £15 Is. lid., repairs, e Includes £38 3s. 7d., for enlar i> Includes £159 Is. 6d., cost of iost of repairs. e Includes i jement of house. enlargement of hi 218 2s. fld., cost of i ouse, &c. o Incluc repairs. f Inclui les £58 14s. 4d., les £3 15s., for

Port or Place. Subject of Notice. Wellington Harbour Pencarrow Head Coromandel Harbour Manukau Harbour Vision Rock Hauraki Gulf Auckland Harbour Hokianga River Kaipara Harbour Light on end of new ferry jetty, Waterloo Quay. Buoy off Steeple Rook. Temporary mark-buoys, Mahanga Bay. Erection of explosive fog-signalling apparatus, preliminary notice. Lights on Ooromandel Wharf. Shoaling off Heron Spit, entrance to South Channel. Expunged from Admiralty Chart. Position of wreck of barquentine " Waitemata " (two notices). Light on Quay Street Jetty, No. 3. Temporary lights—Outer Eastern Tee, Queen Street Wharf, Exhibition of lights at South Head. Position of buoy off Tory Shoal. Removal of leading beacons. Position of wreck of sunken s.s. " Tasmania." Erection of lighthouse and exhibition of light (two notices). Position of mooring posts and dolphin, and alteration in position of wharf light. Additional Harbour lights off Deborah Bay and on Quarantine Island. Mining and blasting operations at Mid-channel Rock. Buoy abreast of Guiding Star Rock. Leading beacons ereoted. Sunken rocky patch, Codfish Island, and sunken rock, Kaipipi Bay. Position of rock on which s.s. " Tutanekai " touched. Alteration in harbour lights and night signals. Ereotion of Explosives Wharf, Buller River. Mahia Peninsula Cape Palliser Picton Harbour .. Otago Harbour .. Bluff Harbour .. New River Paterson Inlet .. Daggs Sound Westport Harbour