Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1299, 15 April 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

pustonis <DppartwWK (Marine Branch), spE.following Nptjce to f rannounof?igthei jftHibitfoi of a harbour' Jjfghji at Napier, rprejpareji from information fe ?roTi»oie-i Engineer, in jifibhsbed! fo* "ge ; j}era| |nfprfnatipn. ijlenb? Sewbll. i —t — PORT AHURIRI. HARBOUR LIGHT. Tftw Z«># shows Bed on the Pania Rock. pN and after the Ist day of July, 1871, a fixed Red and White Light will be exhibited from a mast pa the Western extremity of the Eastern Spit, Port" Ahuriri, and wjll be seen on the following bearings from -seacard : Red FromS.E. by S. to S. by E.fE. White ... from S. by E;fE. 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 should be visible, in clear weather, about 9 nautical miles, allowing 10 feet lor the height of the observer's eye. fhe Pania Rock is in the centre of the south-western Jed light, which will be seen one quarter of a mile (nautical) on 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 no guide for them, and must use all pretentious as heretofore to avoid the rocky patch called Ithe 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 cuoy which is moored off. the northern edge of the patch, and which lies in 5| fathoms at low water springs. ' All bearings are magnetic.