Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1217, 9 January 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department .(Max£pe. Branch), '' Wellington, 22,1871. ' S)?E follo;wiflg Notice ;to Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a-Harbour Light at Kaoier, prepared from information received fron? provincial Engineer, is published for ge : information. '" , Hejtr? '• PORT AHURIRI HARBOJJR LIGHT. This Light shows Bed on the Patiia .Rock. Pn and after the Ist day of July, 1871, a fixed "Red and White Light trill 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 i-r ••■■■.<- Hed From S.E. by S. to S. bv E.fE. White ... From S. by E.f-E. to S.W. by S.IS. Red From 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, 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 ([nautical) oh each side of the rock. yessels approaching from the northward 'should keep in the white light. Masters of yessels 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 jthe Auckland Rock, which has only 14 feet on some portions of it at low water springs. ' This patchestends at least one cable to the southward of the black buoy whicli is moored off the northern edge of the patch, and which lies in 5f fathoms at low water springs. All bearings are magnetic.