Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1226, 19 January 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

.Customs P.epartment (Marine Branch), " ' Wellington, June 22,4971... ' following Notice to" Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour Ligh,t at Naoier, prepared from information received from Jthe Provincial Engineer, is published for ge V f: ' Henbx SfiWßii.; PORT AHURIRI HARBOUR WGHT, This Light shows I Bed on ■ the Vania Rock. 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, Tort Almriri, )md will be seen on the following bearings from seacard '' '_.'•'; ''" '" ''''"'• : ' V;; : Red From > S.E.byJS. to S. by E.£K White ... From S. by E.p. to S.W. by S-iS. Red ... ... Trora S.W. by S.iS. to S.W.iS. The light will be about 27 feet above high water, and should bo visible, in clear weather, about 9 nautical miles, allowing 10 feet for the heigbt of the observer's; §yp. '' '•-•..■-•:.•;■•■ The I'anin Rock is in the centre of the south-western red light,.'winch" will be seen one quarter of a mile (nautical) on each side oft he rock. "Vessels approaching from the northward should keep in the white light. Masters of vessels coming front the southward will find this light no guide for",t)iem, and must use all precautions as heretofore to avoid tbe rocky patch called ihe Auckland Rock, which has only 11- feet on some portions of it at low water springs. This patch expends at least one cable to the southward of die black auoy which is moored off the northern edge of the patch, and which lies in 5J fathoms at low water Springs. All bearings arc magnetic.