Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1158, 28 October 1871, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, June 22,1871. •TjHE following Notice ,to Itfariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour Light at Naoier, prepared from information received from ib.e Engineer, is published for ge :3eral information. Henbi Sewell. POET AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This Light shows Red on the Pania Rock, (On and after the Ist day of July, 1871, a fixed Bed 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 :-U ~-.... 'Red From S.E. hy S. to S. by E.fE. White ... Prom S. by E.fE. to S.W. by S.£S. Red Prom S.W. by S.£S. to S.W.£S. The light will be about 27 feet above high water, and should be visible, in clear weather, ahout 9 nautical miles, allowing 10 feet for the height of the observer's eye. Sr 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 .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 northezn edge of the patch, and which lies in 5f fathoms at low water Springs. All bearings are magnetic.