Notice to Mariners.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1322, 13 May 1872, Page 4

Notice to Mariners.

Customs Department (Marine Branch), The following Tfotice to' Mariners, announcing of aTHarbour Light at.lf a>pi&y^ilepa^ 4he KroTincialJEngineeiyiiß. IpubhsbJeld for ge aeral infoymation. c«lJesibyi Swell. , PORT AHURIRI/HARBOUR LIGHT. yhis laght, shows Med on the Pania , Rod. pN r and,^r,thelßtday ) of.,Jvily >r 1&71, *,fixed Red ancHVtiite Light'will be exhibited from a mast on the Western extremity of the 'Eastern Spity''Pert ; Ahuriri, *nd Hjill Jbe. seeu on the following: bearings-from i seaward : Red ...... Erora S.E. by S. to S. by E.fE. White ... From S. by E.fE. to S.W. by S.^S. Red .... ... Erom BM. by S.|S. to S.W:|S. The light will he about/27 feet above high water, ,j»nd 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 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 allpvetautions as heretofore to avoid the rocky patch called the Auckland Rock, which has only 14 feet ou some portions of it at low water springs. This patch extends at least one cable to the southward of the black Duoy which is moored off the northei n edge of the patch, and which lies in 5f fathoms at low water Springs. All bearings are magnetic.