ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.
To the Editor of the Otago Witness,
Sin, — May I beg of you for the benefit of Shipping visiting our Port to give publicity through your columns to the Code of Signals now in use at the Heads.
The Fag-staff is fixed on the Lighthouse standing on the summit of Tairoa's Head.
Flag No. 1, Blue Peter — keep to sea, the Bar is not fit to take. Flag No. 2, Red—take the Bar, there is no danger. Flag No. 3, Blue, with a white St. Andrew's CrossEbb Tide, and bar not fit to take. Flag No. 4, White— first quarter flood. Were you to publish them every three or four months under your Shipping news you would confer a boon on the Shipping interest, as also on the Underwriters, and thus on the settlement indirectly. I may just add, that of late several Captains have complained of the want of this information ; and it appears that even in the neighbouring settlements our Code of Signals (such as they are) are not known. It would also be well to intimate that a fixed light is kept burning from sunset to sunrise. I remain, &c. William H. Reynolds, Agent to Lloyd's.
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Otago Witness, Issue 54, 29 May 1852, Page 2
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