Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1221, 13 January 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine Branch), a " .Wellington, June 22, 1871. following Notice ,to Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour Light at Racier, prepared from'information received from the provincial Engineer, is published for geaaral information. Henbe oewbll. PORT AH.URIRI HARBO.UR LIGHT. This Light shows Red on the Pania Rock. Px 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 seaward;^ "Bed FromS.E. by S. ,to S. by E.fE. White ... From S. by E.fE. to S.W. by S.^S. Red From S.W. by 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 ey e . " ' ~ The Pania Rock is in the centre of the south-western red light, "which will be seen one quarter of a mile '(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 allprerautions as heretofore to avoid the rocky patch called Jhe Auckland Rock, which' has only 14 feet on some portions of it at low water springs. ' Thi9 patch exlends at least one cable to the southward of the black ouoy which is moored off the northern edge of the patch, and which lies in 5f fathoms at low water Springs. - All bearings are magnetic.