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This light is expected to be ready for
permanent exhibition in March 1865.

Chas. Sharp,
President Marine Board.
Marine Board Office,
Wellington, 24th November, 1864.

Godley Head (Banks’ Peninsula), Light-house.

Godley Head Lighthouse is situated
on Godley (or Cachalot) Head, forming
the North-western entrance of Port
Lyttelton, Banks Peninsula, in 43° 35’
32" South latitude and 172° 49’ 30"
East longitude, as measured on the Ad-
miralty Chart.

The light will be a Fixed Dioptric
White Light, of the second order, is ele-
vated about 450 feet above the level of
the sea, and illuminating an arc of 200°.
It will be visible from seaward, in clear
weather, about 29 nautical miles, and at
lesser distances, according to the state of
the atmosphere, from E. ¼ S., round by
the north to about N. N. W. ¼ W.

The Tower will be thirty feet in height,
from base to vane.

This light is expected to be ready for
permanent exhibition about March, 1865.

Chas. Sharp,
President Marine Board.
Marine Board Office,
Wellington, 24th November, 1864.

Tairoa’s Head Light-house.

Tairoa’s Head Light-house is situated on
the headland bearing that name, on the
east or seaward side of the entrance to
Otago Harbour, in 45° 47’ South lati-
tude, and 170° 45’ East longitude, as
measured on the Admiralty Charts.

The light will be a Fixed Dioptric Red
Light of the 3rd order, and will be seen
to seaward from about E. ¼ N., round by
the north to about N.W.; and up the
Harbour it will show from about W. ½ S.
to about S.W. ¼ W., the latter line indi-
cating the turning-point of the Cross
Channel.

The light will be elevated about 196
feet above the level of the sea, and will
be visible in clear weather about 20
nautical miles, allowing 15 feet for the
height of the observer’s eye, and at lesser
distances, according to the state of the
atmosphere.

The Tower, which, together with the
dwelling houses, will be painted white,
will be 39½ feet high from the ground to
the top of the lantern.

This light is expected to be ready for
permanent exhibition on and after the
night of Monday, January 2nd, 1865.

Note.—All the bearings given in the
above notice, are compass bearings from
the Lighthouse.

Chas. Sharp,
President Marine Board.
Marine Board Office,
Wellington, 24th November, 1864.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

General Post Office,
Auckland, 16th November, 1864.

THE following Notices issued by the
Marine Board relative to the Light
to be exhibited on the Island of Tiri Tiri
Matangi, and the Buoy in the Shearer’s
Rock, are published for general infor-
mation.

Reader Wood,
For the Postmaster-General.

Light-house, Tiri Tiri Matangi, Hauraki Gulf.

The Lighthouse in course of construc-
tion on the S.E. end of Tiri Tiri, in lati-
tude 36° 36’ 30" S., longitude 174° 53’
15" E., will be lit from sun set to sun
rise, from and after 1st January, 1865.

The Tower is of iron, 48 feet high,
painted light red colour, and the focal
plane of the lantern is 300 feet above high
water mark.

The illuminating apparatus is Dioptric
of the 2nd order, showing a fixed light
all round the horizon, which may be seen
from the deck of a vessel in clear weather
at a distance of 23½ nautical miles.

Buoy on Shearer’s Rock.

Notice is also given that a red buoy has
been laid in 14 fathoms N.N.E. of, and
close to the Shearer’s Rock, distant from
the Lighthouse about one mile, with the
following magnetic bearings—Southern
extreme of Tiri Tiri, S. 52° W.; Northern
extreme of Tiri Tiri, N. 72° W.;
Lighthouse Tower, S. 67° W.

R. Johnson,
Warden.
Marine Board Office,
Auckland, 12th Nov. 1864.

Treasury, Auckland
17th November, 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to approve of the appointment of
Archibald Bonar, Esquire,