Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1277, 19 March 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department, (Marine Brftnch)j ! Wellington, June 22, 1871. following Notice "to Mariners,, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour" Eight at Napier, information repeiyed from Engineer, is published for ge fleral information. Henby Sewbli,. PORT AHURIRI HARBOUR WGJJT. This JAgU shows 'Med on the Vania RocJc. On and after the Ist day of July, 1871, a fixed Red ape l White l«ight will be exhibited from a mast on the western extremity of the Eastern Spit, Port Ahuriri, and will be seen on the following bearings from seaWard :™ Red , Erora S.E. by S. to S, by E.£E. White ... From S. by E.fE, to S.W. by S.^S. Red , Erom S.W. by to S.W.fS. The light will be about 37 feet above high water, ?md should be visible, in clear weather, about 9 nautipal miles, allowing 10 feet for the height of the obser* fer's eye, The Pania Rock is in the centre of the southwestern red light, which will be seen one quarter of a mile {nautical) von 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 po guide for them, and must use allprer &autious us heretofore to avoid the rocky patch called yhe Auckland Rock, which has only \4< feet on some portions of it at low water springs. This patch expends 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.