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32. No timber or bulky article is to be mark: Provided that no such penalty and
left on any public wharf or landing place;
and any person infringing this regulation
shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding
five pounds; and any timber or other article
left on any public wharf or landing place, if
not removed at the request of the Harbour
Master, or person authorised by him, may be
removed at the risk and expense of the owner
or consignee thereof.
33. No rubbish or filth is to be landed on
any land belonging to the Crown except in
such places as the Harbour Master may point
out, under a penalty not exceeding five
pounds, to be paid by the person landing the
same.
34. No ballast, rubbish, gravel, earth,
stone, or filth is be thrown overboard from
any vessel or boat, but is to be landed at such
place as the Harbour Master may direct, and
proper tarpaulins are to be used in dis-
charging 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.
35. No pitch, tar, resin, or other com-
bustible matter, shall be lighted or heated on
board any vessel or boat while lying alongside
or near any wharf or vessel in the Harbour;
and any person who shall offend against this
regulation shall be liable to any penalty not
exceeding twenty pounds.
36. 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 twenty
pounds.
37. Any person who makes any vessel,
boat, timber, or other article fast to any buoy,
beacon, or sea mark, and any Master or owner
of a vessel being navigated without having a
Pilot on board, or the owner of any boat by
which any such buoy, beacon, or sea mark is
accidentally removed, injured, or destroyed,
who does not forthwith make good such
damage, or pay to the Harbour Master a sum
sufficient to cover the expenses of so doing,
shall, for every such offence, forfeit a penalty
not exceeding twenty pounds.
38. All Masters of vessels exceeding two
hundred tons register shall cause a sufficient
guard or watch to be kept on deck both by day
and night; all other descriptions of decked
vessels must have at least one person on
board by day and night, and in default
thereof shall be liable to a penalty of ten
pounds.
39. Any person throwing a dead animal
into the Harbour, or placing any dead animal
below high water mark, 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
additional penalty shall together exceed the
sum of twenty pounds.
40. 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
against this regulation shall be liable to a
penalty not exceeding five pounds.
41. Any person removing shingle, stone,
shells, or any part of the soil below high
water mark, without permission from the
Harbour Master, or in the absence of the
Harbour Master from a Resident Magistrate,
shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds,
42. No waterman or other person in
charge of any boat or craft, shall be allowed
to leave any such boat or craft in the way so
as to obstruct the accommodation for getting
to or from the steps of any vessel or public
landing place; and if such obstruction be not
removed by the person or persons so offending,
when requested to do so by the Harbour
Master, or officer deputed by him, such
person shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five
pounds.
43. All Masters or other persons in charge
of vessels are immediately to strike any yard,
or mast-top, or rig in any boom, and move or
clear hawse, when called upon by the Port
Master or Harbour Master, and are generally
to follow such directions as the state of the
weather or other circumstances may render
necessary or expedient in the judgment of
the Port Master, or Harbour Master, for the
safety and interest of the Shipping; and in
default thereof shall forfeit and pay any sum
not exceeding £10.
44. 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.
45. Any person landing or shipping cattle
from or into any Vessel or Boat, on the shores
of the harbour, within the limits of the White
Bluff and Onehunga (except as hereafter
mentioned) shall forfeit and pay £5 for each
head of cattle so landed or shipped, but no
penalty shall exceed £20 in the whole. Tame
cattle or thorough-bred stock imported for
breeding purposes may (subject to the ap-
proval of the Harbour Master or Officer in
charge of Police, whose permission in writing
must first be obtained) be landed or shipped
at such place as the before mentioned autho-
rities may direct.
Gunpowder.
46. All vessels arriving, having gunpowder
on board exceeding thirty pounds, shall
hoist the "Union Jack" at the main, and
remain clear of the shipping until such gun-
powder be landed; and any person offending
against this regulation shall be liable to a
penalty not exceeding £20.
47. Provided that the foregoing regulation