The Compass Vol II No 5 October 1907

NOTICE TO MARINERS. BACKSTAIRS PASSAGE: Yatala Shoal. Masters of vessels and others are hereby informed that a buoy with a spherical top, surmounted by a Jialf-globe, round side uid, and painted red and white (horizontal bands), has been placed in five (5) fathoms L.W.S. on the N.W. side of the Yatala Shoal. Appro- .jiimate position—Lat.,35° 44' 15" S.; Long., 138° 10'E. ARTHUR,SEARCY, President of the Marine Board. Marine Board Offices, Port Adelaide, October 5, 1906. SPENCER GULF: Corny Point Lighthouse Alteration of Light. Notice is hereby given that it is intended, on or about the 1st January. l007, to alter the characteristics of the above light in the following respects:— Instead of the light being obscured over the Webb R.ock and thence inshore as at present, a red sector will be shown over this arc. i.e.. between the bearing of N.E. }, E. and N.E. by N. N., where it is shut in by the first point to the southward of the lighthouse. This red sector will be visible for 14 miles, the full range- of the light. AR-THUR .SEARCY. President of the Marine Board. TdLarine Board Offices, Pott Adelaide, August 28, 1906.