Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1134, 30 September 1871, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

.Customs Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, June 22,1871. following Notice to Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour Light atNa©ier, prepared from information received from the Provincial Engineer, is published for ge serai information. Henbt Seweei.. POET AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This Light shows Bed on the Paula Bock $N and after the Ist day of July, 1871, a fixed Red and White Light will be exhibited from a mast on the extremity of the Eastern Spit, Port Ahuriri, and will be seen oil the following bearings' from Iward;--:-Red From S.E. ,by S. to S. by E.fE. White ... From S. by E.fE. to S.W. by S.£S. Red ... ;.. From S.W. by S.£S. to S.W.fS. •The light will be about 27 feet above high water, and should be visible, in clear weather, about 9 nautical miles, allowing 10 feet for the height of the observer's eye. I?he Pania Rock is in the.centre of the south-western yed light, which will he seen one quarter of a mile 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 £rid 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 li feet ou some portions of it at low water springs. ' This patch expends 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 5| fathoms at low water springs. " ■ All bearings are magnetic.