NEW SHOAL.
LOCATED IN COOK STRAIT.
(PBIBS ASSOCLATIOH TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, November 10. To-day the Government steamer Tutanekai located in Cook Strait an area of foul ground with at least one rock carrying only 30 feet of water over it at low water spring tides. This is a locality that must be avoided by deep draught vessels. Its area is given as 60 feet south-west and northeast and 40 feet east and west. The shoal is close to the 178 fathoms mark shown on chart 695 of Cook Strait. The tidal rippling extends half a mile in a south-west to north-east direction from the shoal on both the ebb and flood streams. Both streams are from li hours to two hours later than the Tory Channel entrance stream. A notice to mariners will be issued by, the Marine Department to-morrow.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19155, 11 November 1927, Page 11
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