Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1251, 17 February 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, June 22,1871. r fWE following Notice to Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour Light at Naoier, prepared from information received from she jfrovincial Engineer, is published for ge sjprsj information. Henry Sewei*. PORT AHURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This JAght show? 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 ou the western extremity of the Eastern Spit, Port Aliuriri, and will bp seen on the following bearings from seacard : Red From S.E. by S. to S. by E.JE. White ... From S. by E.fE. to S.W. by S.£S. Red ... ... From S.W. by to S.W.fS. 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. 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 ing 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 lautions as heretofore to avoid the rocky patch called vhe Auckland Rock, 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 northein edge of the patch, and which lies in 5f fathoms at low water springs. All bearings are magnetic.