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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, 1917.

Port or Place. Subject of Notice. Akaroa Harbour Apia Harbour Auckland Harbour a ■ ■ Hokianga Harbour Kaipara Harbour Lyttelton Harbour Manukau Harbour Motueka Harbour Napier Harbour Nelson Harbour New Zealand, coast Jetty lights. Alteration of position of flag-polo at pilot-station, Samoa. Erection of trig, station on reef off Judge's Bay. Dredgers. Be trig, station off Judge's Bay. Amended position of Kobimarama Wharf. Black beacon, south of Chelsea, down. Dredgers, new position. Erection of lighted beacon off Bastion Reef. Black beacon, south of Chelsea, re-erected. New position of dredgers. Explosives anchorage for small vessels. Devonport sandspit beacon light. Dredging off Albert Wharf and Freeman's Bay reclamation. Now position of dredgers. Lights on wharf in construction in Commercial Harbour. Dredging. Harbour lights and fog-signal. Notification of Brown's Island and Motuihi beacon-cages washed away. Position of dredgers. Harbour light replaced. D'Urville Rock beacon swept away. Auckland time-signals. Entrance to bar. Hokianga River, upper part, light in narrows. Lighted buoy in Wairoa River. Time-signals at Lyttelton. Change in channel over bar. Protected anchorage. Lights for channel entrance. Discontinuance of old beacon lights and closing of old wharf. X niporary removal of light on Auckland Rock buoy. I); ontinuance of old entrance beacons. Er. 'inm in "New Zealand Nautical Almanac" for 1916 and "Modem Up-to-di.'c Navigation." Sunk' r. ,'ock off Tiritiri Island, Hauraki Gulf. Amended notico to No. 45, 1916, sunken rock off Tiritiri, Hauraki Gulf. Position ol '-I' " Squall," wrecked off East Cape. " New Zealand Nautical Almanac," errata in colour of Patea i'ght Shearer Rock ,uoy off Tiritiri Island to be moved. Buoy off Tiritiri Island moved. New edition of Nautical Tables published. " Now Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide Tables for 1917," and Supplement to the " New Zealand Pilot," 8th edition, 1908. " Now Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide Tables for 1917," addenda to tide tables. Errata in " New Zealand Nautical Almanac, 1917." Tables for Azimuth, Great Circle Sailings, and Reduction to the Meridian— Errata. Now Zealand time service arrangements. Light on Okuri Point, south-west of French. Pass. Waikato River, erection of beacons at river-entrance and directions for entering. Quarantine ground. Lighted buoy in harbour. Erection of new light at harbour entrance. Alteration in position of buoy. Extension of eastern mole, Breakwater.J Dredging. Dredge sunk off wharf. Light on Christchurch Meat Company's wharf. South mole end light extinguished. Change in character of light. Dredging near entrance. Removal of man-of-war buoy. Removal of pile-driving derrick from Western Breakwatei. Red light on Western Breakwater to be moved seaward. Removal of red light at down-stream end of coal-staiths. Dredging. Discontinuance of Whangaparapara light. Light on Mercury Bay Wharf. Otago Harbour.. Poverty Bay Tauranga Harbour Timaru Harbour Wanganui Harbour Wellington Harbour Westport Harbour Whangaparapara Harbour Whitianga Harbour