MINEFIELDS LAID
ON APPROACHES TO AUCKLAND ■ OFFICIAL INTIMATION. INSTRUCTION TO SHIPPING. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. July 30. The Marine Department advises that the northern approaches to Auckland are dangerous owing to mines. The limits of the area mined are:- —Needles Point, Great Barrier Island, in a direction 273 degrees to Sail Rock thence 000 degrees for 18 miles, thence 093 degrees to a position 000 degrees 18 miles from Needles Point, Great Barrier Island. Mariners are warned that the area enclosed by the lines joining the above positions is dangerous, due to mines, and ships, including small craft and fishing vessels, enter at their peril. Until further notice, the water to the approaches to Colville Channel from the southern end of Great Barrier Island in the vicinity of and to seaward of Cuvier Island and south to the Mercury Islands is dangerous, due to mines. Entrance to Auckland through the Colville Channel may be made after obtaining instructions from the Marine Department (Collector of Customs).
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 July 1940, Page 4
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