PORT OF HOKITIKA SIGNALS.

West Coast Times, Issue 53, 5 October 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. Whenthe bar may safely be attempted at half tide, whether flood or ebb, the red flag will bo at the mast bend over tho ball, denoting the state of tido. 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 righthand, entering from seaward : More to the south. 6. The other arm, pointed to the left hand, enteiing 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 foremost vessel will be piloted in, the others following in her wake. On a movable pole in front of the signal mast, tho two in ono showing tho fair way, will bo hoisted (if necessary) to show tho set of the current on tho bar' thus :—: — • - A red nnd white pendant — to the North- ward ; A square yellow flag— to the Southward. On the flagstaff not in use for the piloting signals, at high water tho depth in feet on the 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 coining over the bar. When tho bar is only fit for steamers to take, a red flag will bo hoisted on the north flagstaff. When for sailing vessels, a red flag and ball. Masters of vessels are particularly repue3ted to attend to tho small tidal flag on the spit, as the small tidal flag and the large flag in one takes them over the bar.