Notice to Mariners

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1165, 7 November 1871, Page 4

Notice to Mariners

Customs Department Branch), Wellington, June 22,1871. following 3Soti,ce to Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour Light at Napier, prepared from information received from the Provincial Engineer, is published for ge information, JJenb? Seweli.. PORT AHURJRI HARBOUR LIGHT. fhis Light shows Bed qn the Pcmia Bock. Qy and after the Ist day of July, 1871, a fixed Red £iid ]#hite liight will b, e exhibited from a mast on the jyestern extremity of the Eastern Spit, Pprt Ahuriri, and will be seen on the following bearings from seajyard :—- Red From S.& 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-iS. to S.W.JS. The light will be about 2J 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, f* The Pania Rock is in the centre pf the south-western red light, which will be seen one quarter of a mile (nautical) on each side of the rock, vessels apprpaehfpe from the northward should keep in the white light. plasters of vessels comipg from the southward will find this light no guide for them, and must use all precautions as heretofore to avoid the rocky patch called |ihe Auckland Rock, whiph has only li feet on some portions of it at lpw water springs. This patch expen&s at least one cable to the southward of the black buoy which is moored off the northein edge of the patch, and which lies in 5f fathoms at low water Springs. All bearings are magnetic.