Notice to Mariners.
Customs Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, June 22,1871. following Notice to Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour Light at Napier, prepared from information received from the Provincial Engineer, is published for ge information. Henby Sewell. J>ORT AHURIRT HARBOUR LIGHT. This Light slioios Red on the Pania Bock. e ON 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 on the following bearings from seacard : '"' Bed 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 «.iS. 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. 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. ' 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 ,fche 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 buoy which is moored off the northern edge of the patch, and which lies in 5f fathoms at low water Springs. ' • AH bearings are magnetic.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1141, 9 October 1871, Page 4
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269Notice to Mariners. Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1141, 9 October 1871, Page 4
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