Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1229, 23 January 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

pUßtoma Department {Marine Branch), June 22,1871. J£he following Notice to Mariners, announcing the exhibition p£ a Harbour Light at Nailer, prepared from information received from pe Provincial Engineer, is published for ge vgW information. Seveije.. jPORT AHUEIRI HARBOUR iLLGHT. ThUt Light shows Red on tjie Pania Bock. fte and after, the lst ; day of July, 1871, a fixed Red ( and White Light will'he exhibited from a mast on the extremity of the Eastern Spit, Port Ahuriri, and will be seen on the following. bearings from seaRed From S.E. by S. to S. by-E.fE. Wliite ... From S. by E.fE. to S.W. by S.£S. Red ... ... From S.W. by S.£S. to S.W.£S. ' •The light will b,e about 27 feet above high water, 4 and sjio.uld 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 ofthe s,outh-western ted 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. " Rasters of vessels coming from the southward will find this light no guide for them, and must use all precautions as heretofore to avoid the rocky patcli called the Auckland Ildck, which has only 14 feet on some portions of it at low water springs. This patch exfcnds at least one cable to the southward of the black )ouoy which is moored off the pbrtheineclge of the {mtch, and which lies in 5§ fathoms at low water prings. '' All bearings are magnetic.