Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1152, 21 October 1871, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

.Customs Department j(?£arine Wellington, June 22,1871. ing th,e exhibition of a Harbour Light at Naipier, prepared from information received from Provincial Engineer, is published for ge information. Henjbs Se^ei*. PORT AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. •jTI&w Light shows Red on the fania Rode. Py and after the Ist day of July, 1871, a .fixed Red arid 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 :-7 " Red FromS.E.byS. to S. by E.fE. White ... From S. by E.fE. to S.W. by S.^S. fled From S.W. by S.£S. to S.W.£S. .The light will be about 27 feet above high water, and jjtiould be visible, in clear weather, about 9 nautical miles, allowing 10 feet for the height of the observer's eye. t 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 r.ock. 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 the Auckland Rock, which has only 14; feet ,<ju some portiojas .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.