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tackle, and to purchase and put on board such vessel such other quantity of ballast, as to him seems requisite, at the cost or charge of the Master or owner of such vessel, and such costs and charges such Master or owner is required to pay to the Harbour Master, to be accounted for as aforesaid; and if any person without the consent or authority of the Harbour Master cuts or casts off any such rope or tackle so made fast and attached to any other vessel as aforesaid, or in any other manner infringes this regulation, such person shall forfeit a penalty not exceeding £20.

15. Any person, without due authority, resisting, impeding, or obstructing the Port Master, Harbour Master, Pilot, or other person deputed by either of them, in the execution of his duty, or using threatening or abusive language to them, or any of them, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding £20, nor less than £5.

16. No rubbish or filth is to be landed on any lands belonging to the Crown, except in such places as the Harbour Master may point out, under a penalty not exceeding £5, to be paid by any person landing such rubbish or filth.

17. No ballast, rubbish, gravel, earth, stone, earthenware, glass, or filth is to be thrown overboard from any vessel or boat, but is to be landed and placed at such place as the Harbour Master may direct, and no gravel, earth, stone, earthenware, glass, or filth, or rubbish, is to be placed by any other means at any place below the highwater mark within the harbour, and proper tarpaulins are to be used in discharging or taking in ballast, coals, rubbish, gravel, earth, or filth, of any kind so as to prevent any part thereof falling into the harbour; and any person who shall offend against any of the provisions of this regulation, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £20.

18. No pitch, tar, rosin, or other combustible matter shall be lighted or heated on board any vessel or boat, whilst lying alongside or near any wharf or vessel in the harbour, and any person who shall offend against this regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £20.

19. No wreck is to be left stranded in any part of the harbour but must be conveyed on shore, above high water mark, and if any wreck is so left the owner thereof shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £20.

20. Any person throwing a dead animal into the harbour or placing any dead animal below highwater mark within the limits of the anchorage, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £5, and to an additional penalty of £1 for every day, during which any such animal remains in the harbour, or below highwater mark, or unburied on the beach above highwater mark. Provided that no such penalty and any additional penalty shall together exceed the sum of £20.

21. Vessels, unless specially permitted in writing by the Harbour Master, are prohibited from firing guns between the hours of sunset and sunrise, and on Sunday (except in cases of

distress), and any person who shall offend this regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £5.

22. Any person removing shingle, stone, shells, or any part of the soil below highwater mark without the permission of the Harbour Master, or in the absence of the Harbour Master, of a Resident Magistrate, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding £10.

23. Any person landing or shipping cattle from or into any vessel or boat, on the shores of the harbour, within the limits of the City or Suburbs of Auckland, (except as hereinafter mentioned) shall forfeit and pay £5 for each head of cattle so landed or shipped, but no such penalty shall exceed £20 in the whole. Tame cattle or thoroughbred stock imported for breeding purposes may, subject to the approval of the Harbour Master or Inspector of Police, whose permission in writing must be first obtained, be shipped or landed at the Queen-street Wharf before eight o\'clock in the morning; and any description of cattle may be landed or shipped within the Suburbs between sunrise and sunset, subject as aforesaid to the approval of the before-mentioned authorities.

Note.—The third part of the Act of the Imperial Parliament, \"The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854,\" has been brought into operation in New Zealand, so far as the same is applicable.

Signals

to be made from vessels in harbour when required as under :—

Sea Pilot.—Union Jack at the fore.
Harbour Master.—Ensign at the fore.
Police Boat { Day Signal.—The Union Jack over Ensign at the main.
Night Signal.—Two lights vertical at the peak, four feet between each.
Custom House Boat.—Union Jack at the peak.
Medical Assistance.—Union Jack over Ensign at the peak.

Rules to be observed by vessels passing each other.

24. Whenever any vessel proceeding in one direction meets a vessel proceeding in another, and the Master or other person having charge of either such vessel perceives that if both vessels continue their respective courses they will pass so as to involve any risk of a collision, he shall put up the helm of his vessel to port so as to pass on the port side of the other vessel, due regard being had to the tide and to the position of each vessel with respect to the dangers of the channel, and as regards sailing vessels to the keeping of each vessel under command; and if the Master or any other person having charge of any vessel neglect to observe these regulations, he shall, for every such offence, be liable to a penalty not exceeding £20.

25. Steam vessels when passing or near to sailing vessels are always to be considered in the light of vessels navigating with a fair wind.