Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1252, 19 February 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, June 22,1871, she following Notice to Mariners, announc* ing the exhibition of a Harbour Light at Nattier, prepared from information,received from ihe Provincial Engineer, is published for ge xiera} information. Hbn»? Sewelj,.

POUT AHURJRI HAHBOUB LIGHT. This Jfyht shorn Red on the Pania Rocfi. On and after the Ist day of July, 1871, a fixed Bed 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 hearings from seaWard :— n Red ,„ ~. From S.E. by S. to S. by E.fE. White ~, From S. by E.fE. to S.W. by S.£S. Bed ... ~. JTom S.W. by S-iS. to S.W.fS. The light will be about 37 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 rook. 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 Bautions as heretofore to avoid the rocky patch called uhe Auckland Rock, which has only 14 feet on some Portions of it at low water springs. This patch extends at leastone cable to the southward of the black Buoy which is moored off the northern edge of the patch, and which lies in 5f fathoms at low water Springs. All bearings are magnetic.