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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
selves should superintend the periodical or occa-
sional exercise of the Officers and crews of
stations under their command in the manage-
ment of the Rocket and Mortar Apparatus.
They will necessarily also see the advantage
of dividing and stationing the men on all occa-
sions in such a manner as to secure the utmost
order and promptness in the whole proceeding.

DIRECTIONS TO MASTERS AND CREWS OF
SHIPS.

In the event of your vessel stranding within
a short distance of the United Kingdom, and
the lives of the crew being placed in danger,
assistance will, if possible, he rendered from the
shore in the following manner; namely,

1. A rocket or shot, with a thin line attach-
   ed, will be fired across your vessel. Get hold
   of this line as soon as you can, and when you
   have secured it, let one of the crew be separated
   from the rest, and, if in the daytime, wave his
   hat or his hand, or a flag or handkerchief; or
   if at night, let a rocket, a blue light or a gun
   be fired, or let a light be displayed over the
   side of the ship, and be again concealed, as
   a signal to those on shore.
2. When you see one of the men on shore,
   separated from the rest, wave a red flag, or if
   at night), show a red light, and then conceal it,
   you are to haul upon the rocket line until you
   get a tailed block with an endless fall rove
   through it.
3. Make the tail of the block fast to the
   mast about 15 feet above the deck, or if your
   masts are gone, to the highest secure part of
   the vessel, and when the tail block is made fast
   let one of the crew, separated from the rest,
   make the signal required by Article 1 above.
4. As soon as the signal is seen on shore, a
   hawser will be bent to the whip line, and will
   be hauled off to the ship by those on shore.
5. When the hawser is got on board, the
   crew should at once make it fast to the same
   part of the ship as the tailed block is made fast to,
   only about eighteen inches higher, taking care
   that there are no turns of the whip line round
   the hawser.
6. When the hawser has been made fast on
   board, the signal directed by Article 1 above
   is to be repeated.
7. The men on shore will then pull the
   hawser taut, and by means of the whip line,
   will haul off to the ship a sling, cot, or life-
   buoy, into which the person to be hauled ashore
   is to get, and be made fast. When he is in and
   secure, one of the crew must be separated from
   the rest, and again signal to the shore, as di-
   rected in Article 1 above. The people on
   shore will then haul the person in the sling to
   the shore, and when he has landed, will haul
   back the empty sling to the ship for others.
   This operation will be repeated until all per-
   sons are hauled ashore from the shipwrecked
   vessel.
8. It may sometimes happen that the state
   of the weather and the condition of the ship
   will not admit of a hawser being set up, in
   which case a sling or life buoy will be hauled

off instead, and the persons to be rescued will
be hauled through the surf instead of along the
hawser.

Masters and crews of shipwrecked vessels
should bear in mind that the success in landing
them may in a great measure depend upon
their coolness, and attention to the rules here
laid down; and that by attending to them, many
lives are annually saved by the Mortar and
Rocket Apparatus, on the Coast of the United-
Kingdom.

The system of signalling must be strictly
adhered to; and all women, children, passengers,
and helpless persons should be landed before
the crew of the ship.

The illustrations will help to explain the
manner in which the Mortar and Rocket lines
are used.

T. H. FARRER,
Assistant Secretary,
Marine Department.
Board of Trade, Feb. 28th, 1857.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, September 22nd, 1857.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to approve of the appointment of
Mr. WILLIAM R. FINLEASON
as Accountant of the Auckland Savings' Bank,
vice Mr. F. E. Stewart, resigned.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Treasury,
Auckland, September 22nd, 1857.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
Mangonui, of Te Rawhiti.
Kingi Wiremu, of Te Ti, Mangonui.
Waikato, of Tepuna.
Rewi Hongi, of Te Ngaere.
Taupo, of Kerikeri.
Wiremu Hau, of Waimate.
Hira Pura, of Kaikohe.
Piripi Korongohi, of Tautoro.
Renata, of Te Kawakawa.
Te Warihi Kokowai, of Waikare.
Hoterene Tawatawa of Whangaruru.
Puariri, of Te Haumi and Paihia.
to be Native Assessors for the District of the
Bay of Islands.

E. W. STAFFORD,
In the absence of Mr. Richmond.

Treasury,
Auckland, September 22nd, 1857.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
TE RAIHE, of Matumatu,
to be a Native Assessor for the District of the
Thames.

E. W. STAFFORD,
In the absence of Mr. Richmond.