REGULATIONS FOR THE HARBOUR

lands belonging to the Crown, except in such places as the Harbour Master may point out, under a penalty of five pounds, to be paid by any person landing such rubbish or filth.

28. No ballast, rubbish, gravel, earth, stones, 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, stones, earthenware, glass bottles, filth or rubbish, is to be placed by any other means at any place below the high water 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 twenty pounds.

29. 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 twenty pounds.

30. No wreck is to be left standing 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 twenty pounds.

31. Any person throwing a dead animal into the harbour, or placing any dead animal below high water mark within the limits of the anchorage, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds, and to an additional penalty of one pound for every day during which any such animal remains in the harbour, or below high water mark, or unburied on the beach above high water mark. Provided that no such penalty and additional penalty shall together exceed the sum of twenty pounds.

32. All vessels, unless specially permitted 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 against this regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

33. Any person removing shingle, stones, shells, or any part of the soil below high-water 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 five pounds.

34. No waterman, or other person in charge of any boat, shall go alongside, or board, or suffer or permit any person to board any vessel arriving at port from beyond sea, until such vessel is properly secured at her anchorage; and any person offending against this Regulation shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding five pounds. Provided that this regulation shall not be construed to prevent the boarding of any vessel by the owner or agent, or any other person having the written permission of the owner or agent.

35. All vessels carrying ballast for shipping shall have the stem and stern post of such vessel marked with a plate of iron in inches, shewing its tonnage, according to the draught of water when laden.

GUNPOWDER

37. The master of every vessel arriving with gunpowder on board, exceeding the quantity necessary as ship’s stores, shall give immediate notice thereof to the Pilot on his boarding the vessel, and shall land the same at the Powder Magazine before anchoring at the usual anchorage ground, or forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty pounds.

38. No gunpowder is to be either received or issued by the Keeper of the Magazine, except between the hours of seven in the morning and five in the afternoon.

39. The Master of every vessel shall cause all gunpowder to be conveyed to the Magazine immediately after its being landed, or forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds.

40. All gunpowder so landed to be packed in barrels containing not more than one cwt. each, closely joined and hooped, without any iron about the packages, and so secured that no portion of the gunpowder be in danger of being scattered in the passage; and any person offending against this regulation shall incur a penalty of any sum not exceeding ten pounds.

SIGNALS

To be made from all Vessels in Harbour when a Pilot is required—

Sea Pilot—Union Jack at the fore.
Police Boat—Ensign at the main.
Ditto ditto—At Night, two lights vertical at the peak, four feet between each.
Customs Boat—Union Jack at the peak.
Medical Assistance—Union Jack over the Ensign at the peak end.

PILOT’S LICENCE

By virtue of the power in me vested, you are hereby authorised and directed to act as Pilot for the Port of __, and you are enjoined to use your best skill and knowledge in all duties appertaining to that office, strictly conforming to the Regulations of the Harbour aforesaid, and obeying such Orders and Instructions as you may from time to time receive from me.

Given under my hand this twenty-fifth day of October, in the year of Our Lord 1859, at Government House, at Auckland, New Zealand.

T. GORE BROWNE,

LYTTELTON: PRINTED AT THE TIMES OFFICE.