Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1300, 16 April 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

. £S«j#omg Departmeßt (Marine Branch), Wellington,.. June. 22, ;1871. t 3/pjs following sßf<#ice !to*Marinerß^Anno:uno- ! jiig the'eihibition 6f, a Harbour,' £jgibt at'-Na- : pier/prepare&from information Vpfeeived from the: J*roTincial Engineer, is > ge neraJ information. Heuey Sewed* PORT &BURIRI HARBOUR LIGHT. This light shows Med on the Vania Rock. Ojr 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 Aliuririj 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. Bed , 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 nauti?al miles, allowing 10 feet for the height of the observer's eye. The Pania Rock is in the centre of the south-western fed light, which will be seen one quarter of a mile jDautical)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 allpreWutions as heretofore to avoid the rocky patch called vhe Auckland Rock, which has only 14 feet au some portions of it at low water springs. This patch extends at least one cable to the southward of the black otioy=which is moored off the northern edge of the patch, and which lies iu 5f fathoms at low water springs. All hearings are magnetic.