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 : when the bar may safely be attempted at half : nood the red flag will be at mast-head. 3. Ball upon lower-mast cap with yr'aite 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 South. 6. 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 vessel is crossing the bar, th« foremost vessel will be piloted by the signals, the others following iv her wake. 9. The beacon beaiing a pole with a red flag and the flagstaff in one leads oyer the bar. Blue pennant over white— Steamer from the south. White pennant over Kye- -Steamer from tbe north. TBOS. TUKNBULL, Harbor Master for Westland.
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Grey River Argus, Volume VI, Issue 373, 4 June 1868, Page 2
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170PILOT SIGNALS FOR GREY RIVER Grey River Argus, Volume VI, Issue 373, 4 June 1868, Page 2
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