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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, 1913.

Port or Place. Subject of Notice. Auckland Harbour » • • . Bluff Harbour .. Gisborne Harbour Greymouth Harbour Hokitika Harbour Kaipara Harbour » • • Karamea Harbour » • • Lyttelton Harbour Manukau Harbour t> • • Motueka Harbour Napier Harbour Beacon in Mechanics Bay. Rocks in Motuihi Channel. Mechanics Bay reclamation. Compulsory pilotage. Mechanics Bay reclamation. Dredging off Queen Street and Hobson Street wharves. Light on Calliope Dock Pier. Beacon off Orakei Wharf. Datum-point for guns at Rangitoto Beacon. Caution against anchoring over cable-ground, Stokes Point. Change in characteristic of Bean Rock Light. Now wharf and light at Kohimarama. Change in position of buoy in Mechanics Bay. Dredging off Kohimarama Wharf. Light on St. Helier's Bay Wharf. Erection of beacons. Beacon off Tamaki River. Light on Takapuna Wharf. Rocks off Kohimarama Wharf. Erection of beacons. Dredger off Hobson Street Wharf. Dredging at entrance to harbour. Mark-buoy in fairway removed. New flagstaff at Stirling Point. Breakwater extension. " Kotuku " wreck in channel. " Kotuku " wreck removed. Change of light. Beacon light in south branch of river. Signal-station. Bar soundings. Temporary change in character of light in south branoh of river. Special signals for vessels taking the bar. Light moved. Dredging operations. Beacon below Onehunga Wharf, Shoaling of bar in South Channel. Harbour construction-works : Dredger and mooring-piles at entrance, and at entrance to Moutere Lagoon. Auckland Rock buoy. Temporary light at entrance to Inner Harbour. Signals for Inner Harbour. Berthing-signals from wharf flagstaff. Uncharted rock off Trio Islands, approaching Admiralty Bay, Cook Strait. Dusky Sound, Pickersgill Harbour : Extension of foul ground. Signals to be made by vessels approaching defended ports when inconvenienced by searchlights. Mooring-buoy off Wairau River. Establishment of Morse signalling at lighthouses and signal-stations. Hope Rock at west approach to Current Basin, Cook Strait. "New Zealand Nautical Almanac," and Supplement to "New Zealand Pilot. , ' issued. Reported rock off Waitara roads. Rock in Te Kouma Harbour, Coromandel. " New Zealand Nautical Almanac " : Erratum re Timaru fog-signal. Castle Point light characteristics. Castle Point light: Date of exhibition. Buoy laid in Te Kouma Harbour, Coromandel. Discoloured water off New Zealand coast. " New Zealand Nautical Almanac " : Erratum re Tory Channel tidal predictioi s. Telegraph cable across Port Hardy, D'Urvillo Island. Tuahine light: Arc of visibility. Dredging at entrance. Beacon lights in Lower Harbour. Beacon lights in Lower Harbour, and removal of Tongue Wharf at Dunedi Light-beacon on Quarantine Island. Light on Railway Wharf. Dart Rock buoy adrift, Tennyson Inlet. Rock near entrance to Paterson Inlet. Rock near entrance to Paterson Inlet. Barclay Rock buoy, Paterson Inlet. Waihou River ferry crossing. Warning-signals re ferry-punt, Waihou River. Alteration in river light. Anchorages. Dredging on Falcon Shoal. New soundings. Position of cable altered. Lights for lifting-span on bridge at Kioreroa. New light at entrance. >t '' >t • • New Plymouth Harbour. . New Zealand coast >> • • t> * • t> • • M ' ' >> • ' Oamaru Harbour Otago Harbour >> ' • >* • ■ Picton Harbour Stewart Island Thames Harbour Wanganui Harbour Wellington Harbour >> • • Whangarei Harbour >> • • )> • • f> ,