Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1188, 4 December 1871, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

jOuatoms Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, June 22,18J71. {TjEiE following. Notice to Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour Light at Nar pier, prepared from information received from ijxe Provincial Engineer, is published for ge seral information. Heney Sewell. PORT AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. fjiis Light shows Red on the Pania Bock. Pn 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 Ahuriri, and, will be seen on the following bearings from seacard : Red From S.B. by S. to S. by E.fE. . White ... From S. by E.'fE. to' S.W. by S.£S. fled ... ... Eroni S.W- by S.£S. to S.W.JS. The light will be about 27 feet above high water, and should be visible, iu 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 jred light, which will be seen one quarter of a mile j(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 northern edge of the patch, and which lies in 5| fathoms at low water Springs. AH bearings are magnetic.