Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1177, 21 November 1871, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

• Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, June 22,1871. following Notice to Mariners, announc« jag the exhibition of a Harbour Light at Na» from information received from jpie Engineer, is published for ge 3Si?£al information. Henr? Sewell. JPORT AHURJRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This Light shows Red on the Pania Bock. Py and after the Ist day of July, 1871, a fixed Red { and° Ignite Light will be exhibited from a mast on the western extremity of the Eastern Spit, Port Ahnriri, and will be seen on the following bearings from seacard ;-t 'Bed FromS.E.byS. to S. by E.fE. White ... From S. by E.fE. to 5-F- by S.£S. Red From S.W. by S.£S. to S,W.£S. 7 The light will be about 27 feet above high water, and should be visible, in clear weather, about ,9 nautical mHejs, allowing 10 feet for the height of the observer's eye. The Pan ja 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 avoid the rocky patch called the 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 5| fathoms at low water >prings. ' All bearings are magnetic.