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The Marine Board of New Zealand, in virtue of all powers in any wise the Board in this behalf enabling, doth hereby also make and publish the foregoing Regulations.

CHAS. SHARP,
President of the Marine Board.
Wellington, 2nd August, 1866.

The foregoing Regulations, submitted to and approved of by the Governor in Council, this Fifteenth day of September, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

G. GREY,
Governor.

FORSTER GOING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

General Post Office,
Wellington, Sept. 19, 1866.

THE following Bye-Laws (Waterman’s Regulations) for the Port of Lyttelton, approved of by the Governor in Council, are published for general information.

JOHN HALL,
Postmaster-General.

BYE-LAWS (WATERMAN’S REGULATIONS),
PORT OF LYTTELTON.

1. Every person who wishes to ply as a waterman in the Port of Lyttelton must make application in writing to his Honor the Superintendent for a license, such application to be signed by two respectable residents in the said port.

2. Before a license is granted to any boat she must be inspected by two or more competent persons appointed by the Superintendent, who will, if approved of for a passenger boat, issue a certificate as to her dimensions and the number of passengers she is entitled to carry; such certificate must be produced before a license will be granted.

3. For every such license a fee of one pound sterling per annum must be paid at the time the applicant receives his license, and the said license must be renewed on or before the first day of July in each year, subject to the clauses one and two of these Regulations.

4. Every licensed waterman plying for hire must have his name legibly painted in letters two inches long together with his number on the inside part of the gunwale of the stern-sheets of his boat, also the number of passengers his boat is licensed to carry, and the name of his boat as inserted in his license legibly painted on the back-board.

5. Any person carrying passengers for hire without a license, or any person lending his license to another to make use of, or any licensed waterman charging more than the authorized rate of fares, or refusing to employ his boat when required to do so, shall forfeit his license, and will be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds. But any licensed waterman who from sickness is prevented from plying, may, on the production of a medical certificate, be permitted to transfer his license to a person approved of by the harbor authorities for a period not exceeding one month.

6. No boat shall be allowed to remain at any landing place after discharging her passengers or to make fast to any steps or handrails belonging thereto, or in any way obstruct the passage to and from the same, and no boats, casks, timber, bulky or heavy article of any description shall be hauled up or down the steps so as to obstruct passengers from landing or embarking, under a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

7. Watermen, boatmen, carters, porters, and all other persons engaged on the wharves in Port Lyttelton shall be under control of the harbour authorities. Any person resisting, impeding, or obstructing the said authorities in the execution of their duty, or using threatening, abusive, or obscene language, either when plying for hire, or on board or alongside of any vessel, or on or at any landing place, shall forfeit and pay a sum of not more than twenty pounds.

8. The house on the Government Wharf known as the "waterman’s house" will be set apart for the use of licensed watermen, and no other person will be allowed to occupy this building. Should any person persist in doing so, the watermen on duty are requested to report the same to the police, who will cause such intruders to be removed.

9. The authorized fares shall be as follows for the Port of Lyttelton:

s. d.
From any wharf or jetty to the steamers ............ 1 0

Single fare to or from—
From any wharf or jetty to any place or to any vessel other than steamers lying within a space bounded on the east by a line drawn from Stoddart’s to Sticking Point, and on the west by a line drawn from Naval Point to the eastern point of Church Bay ...... 1 6

From any wharf or jetty to any vessel lying to the eastward of Sticking and Stoddart’s Points, and to the westward of Battery Point and the buoy on Parsons’ Rock ............ 2 6

From any wharf or jetty to Church Bay ............ 4 6

From any wharf or jetty to Gollan’s Bay ......... 2 0

From any wharf or jetty to Rhodes Bay—
One passenger ...... 3 6
Two or more, each ...... 2 6

From any wharf or jetty to the Quarantine Station—
One passenger ...... 10 0
Two or more, each ...... 7 0

To the Heads or head of the Bay, as per agreement.