Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1174, 17 November 1871, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, June 22, 1871. r fpT& following Notice to Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour Light at Natter, prepared from information received from $e provincial Engineer, is published for ge information. Heney Sewell. PORT AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. fhis Light shops Red on the Pania Rock. P» and after the Ist day of July, 1871, a fixed Red and White Light will be exhibited from a mast on the western extremity of the Eastern Spit, Port Ahurirj, and will be seen ,on the following bearings frpm seajfard:— Red From S.E. by S. to S. by E.fE. White ... From &by E.fE. to S.W. by S.£S. Red Eroni S.W. by to S.W.|S. The light will be about 37 feet aboye 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 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 £nd this light no guide for them, and must use all precautions as heretofore to aypid tlie r.ocky 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 northein edge of the patch, and which lies in §f fathoms at low water springs. All bearings are magnetic.