Notice to mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1240, 5 February 1872, Page 4

Notice to mariners.

pustoma Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, June 22,1871. £he following Notice to Mariners, anntyirtclrig the exhibition of a.Harbour Light afc'Nabier, prepared from information received from the Provincial Engineer, ia 'published for ge . feral information. ' ' HENBr 'Sewell. ?ORT AH URIEI HARBOUR LIGHT. This Light shows Red on the Pania Rock, ( On 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 pastern Spit, Port Ahuriri, and wjiljbe aecn on the following bearings from sea.Jyard:— Red From S.E. by S. to S. by E.p. White ... from S. Jjy EM. to S.W. by S.^S. Ked From S.W. by S.|S. to S.W.£S. : The light will be about 27 feet above high water, and'JahOjijld be .visible, in clear weather, about 9 nautical miles, allowing 10 feet Tor thef 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 all precautions as heretofore to avoid the rocky patch called the Auckland Sock,' which 5 has' billy' 14 feet on sonie portions of it at' low" water springs. This patch expends 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 5| fathoms at low water Springs. ■ All bearings are magnetic.