PORT OF HOKITIKA SIGNALS.

West Coast Times, Issue 44, 14 September 1865, Page 2

PORT OF HOKITIKA SIGNALS.

1. Ball and red flag at the mast head . high water, take the bar. 3. 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 tho mast head over the ball, denoting the state of tide. „ i. Ball on the tower mast cap, and white flag : Ebb tido,-bar dangerous. 4. No signal : Do not attempt the bar. 6. Red painted arm, pointed to the righthand, entering from seaward : More to the south. 6. The other arm, pointed to tho left hand, entering from seaward : More to tho north. 7. The arms up and down with tho mast : As you go. When'moro than one vessel is crossing the bar, the foiemo^t vessel will be piloted in, the others following in her wake. On a movable pole in front of the signal maat, the two in one showing the fair way, will be hoisted (if liecessary) to show the set of the current on tho bar' thns :—: — A red and white pendant — to the North- ward ; A square yellow flag — to tho Southward. On tho flagstaff not in use for the piloting signals, at high water tho depth in feet on the bar will bo denoted by Marryatt's code. A red light is hoisted on the 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 tho bar. When the bar Js only fit for sleamer3 to take, a red flag will be hoisted on tho north flagstaff. When for sailing vessels, a red flag nnd ball. Masters of vessels are particularly repuested to attend to the small tidal flag on the spit, ns the small tidal flag and the large flag in one takes them over the bnr.