Notice to Mariners

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1283, 26 March 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners

Customs Department (Marine Branch), Wellington, Juno 22,1871. The following Jf otice to Mariners, announcing the exhibition of a Harbour Light at Napier, prepared from information received from the Provincial Engineer, is published for ge ncraJ information. Henby Seweli. PORT AHURIRI BARBOUR LIGHT. This JAght 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 Eastern Spit, Port Ahuriri, and will be seen on the following bearings from seaWard :-^ Red From S.E. by S. to S. by E.fE. White ... From S. by E.fE. to S.W. by S.$S. Red ... ... Erom s.W. by to S.W.|S. The light will be about 37 feet above high water, pnd 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 ted light, which will be seen one quarter of a mile (nautical) on each side of the rock. Vessels approachipg 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 $e Auckland Hock, 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 puoy which is moored off the northern edge of the patch, and which lies in 5f fathoms at low water pprings. ' All hearings are magnetic.