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Return showing the Notices to Mariners relating to Matters within the Dominion issued by the Marine Department during the Year ended 31st March, 1912.

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Port or Place. [ Subject of Notice. "-. I " """" ~" Auckland Harbour ,H ,H Bluff Harbour Collingwood Harbour Foxton Harbour Hokianga Hokitika Harbour Kaipara Kararnea River . I Explosives anchorage for vessels. : Explosives anchorage for small craft. I Dredger off Railway Wharf. Rocks in Rangitoto Channel. Explosives anchorage for vessels. Explosives anchorage for vessels. ! Morse system for night signalling installed. Protected anchorage for yachts. Reclamation at St. George's Bay. Lights on Orakei and St. Heliers Bay Wharves. Removal of rocks in Rangitoto Channel. Dredging in Commercial Harbour. Rocks in Motuihi Channel. Rocks in Motuihi Channel. Rocks in Rangitoto Channel Erection of dolphins in Freeman's Bay. Buoy to be placed in Motuihi Channel. Lights on Orakei and St. Heliers Buy Wharves. . Change in buoyage off Rough Rock. Warping buoys in Drunken Bay. Position of buoys in Motuihi Channel. Mooring buoy in Shoal Bay. Light on St. Helier's Bay Wharf. Warping buoy in Freeman's Bay. Removal of telegraph signal-staff at Stirling Point. Dredging on eastern end of Middle Bank. Rock in fairway at harbour entrance. New light tower at Stirling Point. Aorere River leading-lights. Signals for working bar. Soundings in channels. Changes in channel. Changes in channel. Night-signal lights. Training-wall lights. Shoals on bar. Dredging in Helensville Creek. Signal-staff shifted. Signals for entering and leaving river. Discontinuance of leading beacon lights. Morse signalling installed at Port Ahuriri. Colour of Pania B,eef buoy changed. Dredging off inner harbour. Wharf berthing signals. " New Zealand Nautical Almanac " issued. Newly determined position of Three Kings Islands. Sunken rock off Three Kings. Uncharted rock off Bay of Islands, in rock off Mokohinou. Buoy between Three Kings and Cape Maria van Diemen for survey purposes. Reported rock south-west of Cook Rock, off Brothers Island. " New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide Tables for 1912," and Supplement to "New Zealand Pilot," eighth edition, 1908. Issue of new Nautical Tables. Newly determined position of West Island of Three Kings. " Tables for Azimuth Great Circle Sailing and Reduction to the Meridian," by H. S. Blackburne, errata. " New Zealand Nautical Almanac," errata. " Now Zealand Time Service Arrangements." Uncharted rock off Francis Head, approaching Admiralty Bay, Cook Strait. New beacons, lower harbour. New beacons, lower harbour, to be lighted. Tuahine Point new lighthouse. Tuahine Point new lighthouse (further notice). Change in light on Dieffenbach Point. Fog-signal on Patiti Point. Leading-beacons moved. Lights on leading-beacons. Bar-beacons. Bar-beacons. Temporary flagstaff re-erected. Lights on moles at entrance. Falcon Shoal dredged channel. Removal and change in position of Falcon Shoal beacon. Removal of dredge over Falcon Shoal. Lights for lifting span ori bridge at Kioreroa. Napier New Plymouth New Zealand coast Otago Harbour.. Poverty Bay ,, • .* - Queen Charlotte Sound .. Timaru Tokomaru Bay .. Waimakariri Harbour Wanganui Wellington Harbour H, Whangarei