PORT OF HOKITIKA SIGNALS.

West Coast Times, Issue 33, 19 August 1865, Page 2

PORT OF HOKITIKA SIGNALS.

1. Ball and red flag at the mast head . high water, take the bar. 2. Ball and blue flag, half mast : Half flood, wait for tide. When the bar may safely bo attempted at half tide, whether flood or ebb, the red flag will be at the mast head over the ball, denoting the state of tide. 3. Ball on the tower mast cap, and white flag : Ebb tide, bar dangerous. 4. No signal : Do not attempt the bar. 6. Red painted arm, pointed to the right-hand, entering from seaward : Moie to the south. 6. The other arm, pointed to the left hand, eutering from seaward : More to the north. 7. The arms up and down with the mast : As you go. When more than one vessel is crossing the bar, the foremost vessel will be piloted in, the others following in her wake. On a movable pole in front of the signal mast, the two in one showing tho fairway, will be hoisted (if necessary) to show tho set of the current on the bar, thus :—: — A red and white pendant — to the Northward ; A square yellow flag— to the Southward. On the flagstaff not in use for the piloting signals, at high water the depth in feet on tho bar will be denoted by Marryatt's code. A red light is hoisted on tho signal mast on the south spit each night, visible at from three to four miles. There will be an anchor and chain, and line attached, on the South Spit, and boat and boat's crew in readiness at high water, every tide, to assist any vessel coming over the bar. When tho bar is only fit for steamers to take, a red flag will be hoisted on the north flagstaff. When for sailing vessels, a red flag and ball. Masters of vessels are particularly repuested to attend to the small tidal flag on the spit, as the small tidal flag and the large flag in one takes them over the bar.