Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1249, 15 February 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Pustoms Department (Marine Branch), Wellington,. June 22,1871. ; {jpjlE following Notice to Marinera, announcing the exhibition of aTHarbour Light at Nattier, prepared from information received from the Provincial Engineer, is published for ge PORT AHUMRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This, light shows Red on the Pania Rock. Qsf aadafterthe Ist day of July, 1871, a fixed Red and White Zaght will he exhibited from a mast on the svestera extremity of the Eastern Spit, Port Ahuriri, and will be Been on the following bearings from seacard :??r Red From S.E. by S. to S. by E.-fE. White ... From S, by E.|E. to S.W. by S.|S. Red ... ... From S.W- by S.£S. to S.W.£S. The light will be about 27 feet above high water, and ghould be visible, in clear weather, about 9 nautical miles, allowing 10 feet for the height pf the observer's eye. The Pania Rock is in the centre ofthc south-western ted light, which will be seen one quarter of a mile (nautical) on each side of the rock. Vessels approach jug from the northward should keep in the white light. Masters pf vessels coining from the southward will find this light no guide for them, and must use all precautions as heretofore to avoid the rocky patch called yhe Auckland Rock, which has only 14 feet on some portions of it at |pw 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. All bearings are magnetic