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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1124, 19 September 1871, Page 4

Nrrito to Mtoot. Customs Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, June 22,1871. ,-The following Notice to Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour Light at Natrier, prepared from information received from the Provincial Engineer, is published for ge Taeral information. ' Hekby Sewell. PORT AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This Light shows Red on the Pania Bock ,On and after the Ist day of July, 1871, a fixed Red and White Light will be exhibited from a mast on the western extremity of the Eastern Spit, Port Ahuriri, and will be seen on the following bearings from seaward >-- Red From S.E. by S. to S. by E.fE. White ... From S. by E.fE. to S.W. by Eed From S.W. by S.|-S. to S.W.§S. The light will be about 27 feet above high water, d should be visible, in clear weather, about 9 nautical miles, allowing 10 feet for the height of the observer's eye. The Pania Rock is in the centre 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. Rasters 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 the Auckland Rock, which' has only 14 feet on some portions of it at low water springs. This patch extends at least one cable to the southward of the black buoy which is moored off the northern edge of the patch, and which lies in 5f fathoms at low water springs. All bearings are magnetic.