Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1227, 20 January 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, June 22,1871. following Notice to Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour Light at Naoier, prepared from information received from the ProvinciarErigineer, is published for ge ■ioeral information. '" : Henby Se^oll. PORT AHURIRI JSARBO.UR LIGIJT. This Light shotos lied on the Pania Rock. .On'and after the'lst 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:- 1 — • - • Red From S.E. by S. to S. by E.£E. White ... From S. by E.'p. to S.W. by Eed From S.W. by S.iS. 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. ' ii '- : ''' l "''' " 4 • The Pania Rock is in the centre of the south-western red light, which will be seen one quarter of a mile (uautical) on each side of the rock. Vessels approaching fromthe northward should keep in the white light, 'plasters of vessels coming from the southward will find this"'light no guide for them, and must use allpretautions as heretofore to avoid "the rocky patch called the Auckland Rock, 1 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 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.