Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1224, 17 January 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine Branch), i.. Wellington, June 22,1871. ifHB following Notice to Mariners, announce jng the exhibition of a Harbour Light at Na-i pier, prepared from information received from j *he Provincial Engineer, is published for ge ieral information. Hen££ Sevelii. PORT AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This Light shows Red on the Patiia Rock. s On and after the Ist day of July, 1871, a fixed Red and White Light will be exhibited from a mast on the extremity of the Eastern Spit, Port Ahuriri, and will be seen on the following bearings from seacard :-^- Red From S.E. by S. to S. by E.fE. White ... Prom S. by E.fE! to S.W. by S.|S. lied '... ... Erom S.W. by S.£S. to S.W.JS. The light will be about 27 feet above high water, and should be visible, in clear weather, about 9 nauti'caj 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) 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 the Auckland Rock, which has only 'l4 feet on some portions of it at low water springs. This patch exfends at least one cable to the southward of the black puoy which is moored off the northern edge of the patch, and which lies in 5f fathoms at low water Springs. . ••■' ■ • ' AU bearings are magnetic.