PILOT SIGNALS FOR GREY RIVER.
1. Ball and red flag at- mast-head — High water, take the bar. 2. Ball and blue flag, half-mast—Half-flood, wait for tide ; wh&n the bar may safely be attempted at half tilooll "the "red flag wiil be at mast-head. 3. Ball upon lower-mast cap with white flag — Ebb tide, bar dangerous, 4.. No signal — Do not attempt to take the bar. ' -.'•■■ 5. Arm pointing to the right hand entering from seaward'— More "to the soirth. 6. Arm pointing to the left hand entering from seaward — More to the North. 7. Ann up and' down .with signal mast — As you go. 8. When more than one . vessel is crossing the bar the foremost vessel will- be piloted by the signals, the others following in her wake. 9. The beacon bearing a pole with a red flag and the flagstaff in one leads over the bar. ' THOS. TURNBULL, Harbor Master for Westland,
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Grey River Argus, Issue 59, 29 May 1866, Page 2
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154PILOT SIGNALS FOR GREY RIVER. Grey River Argus, Issue 59, 29 May 1866, Page 2
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