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Return showing the Number of Notices to Mariners relating to Matters within the Colony issued by the Marine Department during the Year ended 31st March, 1903.

Descriptive Return of New Zealand Coastal Lighthouses.

Port or Place. Subject of Notice. Astrolabe Roads .. Awanui Doubtless Bay .. East Cape Foveaux Strait .. Gisborne Greymouth Kahurangi Point.. Kaipara Manukau Moeraki.. Moko Hinou New Plymouth .. Oamaru Okarito Pelorus Sound .. Portland Island .. Queen Charlotte Sound Thames Waikato River .. Wellington Buoy disappeared and replaced (two notices). Sunken rook off Wharariki Point, near East Cape. Beaoons to mark line of approach of Pacifio cable. Time of high water, F. and C. Position of uncharted rooks. Alteration in position of red buoy marking rooks in Poverty Bay. Alteration in colour of buoys, Poverty Bay. Signal-station, South Breakwater, shifted seaward. Dredging operations. Configuration of coast-line, West Coast, South Island. Shoal water off North Sandspit. Leading-marks for main channel. Position of McKenzie Cairn, south of Moeraki Lighthouse. Repairs to light on Burgess Island. Alteration in day and night signals. Dredging operations. Exhibition of light on flagstaff. Beacon on Dart Rock, Tawhitinui Beach, disappeared. Breakers reported off island. Light on Jackson's Head beacon. Buoy outside Opani Point, mouth of Thames River. Leading-beacon blown down. Position of two shoal patches. Red buoy laid down S.S.E. of Hope Shoal buoy (two notioes).

Name of Lighthouse. Order of Apparatus. Description. Period ofEevolving Light. Colour of Light. Tower Dwellings built of built of Date first lighted. Cape Maria van J Diemen 1st order dioptric Revolving Fixed 1' White Red, to show over Columbia Reef. White White, with red aro over Flat Rock White and red White Timber Timber 24 Mar., 1879 Moko Hinou Tiri i iri .. 1st order dioptric 2nd Flashing Fixed 10" Stone Iron Timber 18 June, 1883 1 Jan., 1865 Ponui Passage .. Cuvier Island East Cape Portland Island j 5th 1st 2nd 2nd Revolving Flashing Revolving Fixed 30" 10" 30" Timber Iron Timber 29 July, 1871 22 Sept., 1889 9 Aug., 1900 10 Feb., 1878 Red, to show over Bull Rock. White Iron Timber 27 Oct., 1897 1 Jan., 1859 1 Aug., 1881 1 Sept., 1874 1 Dec, 1884 24 Sept., 1877 Cape Palliser Pencarrow Head.. Capo Egmont Manukau Head .. Kaipara Head .. Brothers .. -j 2nd order dioptric 2nd 2nd 3rd 2nd 2nd Revolving Fixed * iff' 10" Timber Flashing Fixed Red, to show over Cook Rock. White Timber Stone Timber Timber Stone Timber 1 Aug., 1870 1 April, 1865 1 Jan., 1880 22 April, 1878 2 Jan., 1865 1 Jan., 1880 4 July, 1870 1 Jan., 1884 1 Aug., 1865 Cape Campbell .. Godley Head Akaroa Head Moeraki Taiaroa Head Cape Saunders .. Nugget Point Waipapapa Point Dog Island 2nd order dioptric 2nd 2nd 3rd 3rd 2nd 1st 2nd 1st order catadioptric 1st order dioptric • Revolving Fixed Flashing Fixed Revolving Fixed Flashing Revolving i' io" i' Red '.'. '.'. White Stone Timber Stone Timber Stone Stone Timber Stone Timber Stone i6" 30" Centre Island Fixed White, with red arcs over inshore dangers White Timber Timber 16 Sept., 1878 Puysegur Point .. Cape Foulwind .. Farewell Spit 1st 2nd 2nd Flashing Revolving 10" 30" 1' White, with red aro over Spit end White, with red aro to mark limit of anchorage Red and white, with white light on beacon White .. Iron 1 Mar., 1879 1 Sept., 1876 17 June, 1870 Nelson 4th Fixed 4 Aug., 1862 French Pass 6th 1 Oct., 1884 Stephens Island .. 1st Group flashing t 29 Jan., 1894 * Flashing twice every half-minute, with interval ivery half-minute. if three s. ionds between flashes. t Twi flashes 1: quick succession