PILOT SIGNALS FOR GREY RIVER.
1. Ball and red flag at mastrhead — High water, take the bar. ' ' 2. Ball and blue flag, half-mast — Halfllood, wait for tide ; when the bar may safely be attempted at half-iiood the red flag will 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 sonth. «>. Arm pointing to the left hand entering from seaward — More to the North. 7. Arm up and down with signal mast — As you go. 8. When more than one yessel is crossing the bar the foremost vessel will be piloted by the signals, the others fpllowing in her wake. 9. Tho beacon bearing a pole with a red flag and the flagstaff in one leads over the bar. jUue pennant over white— Steamer from the south. White pennant oyer blue Steamej from the north. THOS. TPKNBULL, Harbor Master for Westland
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Grey River Argus, Volume V, Issue 336, 10 March 1868, Page 2
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168PILOT SIGNALS FOR GREY RIVER. Grey River Argus, Volume V, Issue 336, 10 March 1868, Page 2
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