Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1118, 12 September 1871, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

•Custopas Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, June 22,1871. following Notice to planners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour Light at Nayier, prepared from information received from the Proyincial Engineer, is published for ge jpe.ral information. Henbx Se v well. PORT AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This Light shows Bed on the Pania Bock. On and after the Ist day of July, 1871, a fixed Red and JYhife Light will be exhibited from a mast on the extremity of the Eastern Spit, Port Ahuriri, and will be seen on the following bearings from sear - ' " Red From S.E. by S. to S. by E.fE. White ... From S. by E.fE. to S.W. by S.^S. *led From S.W. by S .£& to S.W.^S. The light will be about 27 feet above high water, and should be visible, in clear weather, about ,9 nauti-cal-miles, allowing 10 feet (or the height of the observer's eye. The Pania Rock is of the south-western red light, which will be seen one quarter of a mile .(nautical) on each side of the rock. Vessels approaching from the northward should keep in the white light. ''Masters of vessels coming from the southward will find this light no guide for them, and must use all precautions as heretofore to avoid the rocky patch .called jthe Auckland Rock, which has only 14 feet on some portions of it at low water springs. This patch exlends at least one cable to the southward of the black jbuoy which is moored off the northern edge of the patch, and which lies in 5| fathoms at low water .Springs. * * AH bearings are magnetic.