THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 361

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.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. GREY,
Governor.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 19th September, 1866.

THE following Bye-Laws (Waterman's Regulations)
for the Port 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 respec-
   table residents in the said port.

2. Before a licence is granted to any boat she
   must be inspected by two or more competent persons
   appointed by the Superintendent, who will, if ap-
   proved 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 pro-
   duced 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 exceed-
   ing 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
   harbour 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 rsons 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
Single fare to or from- 1 0

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.

Every passenger shall be allowed to take 20 lbs.
weight of luggage free of extra charge, and for any
quantity over 20 lbs. and under 50 lbs. weight, a
charge of one shilling may be made, and for every
additional 50 lbs. or fraction of 50 lbs. weight a
further charge of one shilling may be made.

10. Any passenger detaining a boat for a period
    exceeding twenty minutes, shall be liable to an extra
    charge of sixpence for every quarter of an hour
    during which the boat shall be detained.

11. During the stormy weather, notice of which
    will be given by hoisting a blue flag half-mast at the
    Harbour Master's Office, and between the hours of
    sunset and sunrise, watermen holding a license are
    authorized to charge double fares, but only at those
    times above mentioned.

12. Passengers having any complaints to make
    must make them in writing to the head of the Harbour
    Department. Complaints made in any other way
    will not be acknowledged.

I, William Sefton Moorhouse, Superintendent of
the Province of Canterbury, by virtue of all powers
in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby
make and publish the foregoing Bye-laws and
Regulations for the Port of Lyttelton.

Given under my hand this twenty-first day of
July, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-six.

W. S. MOORHOUSE,
Superintendent.

The Marine Board of New Zealand in virtue of
all powers the Board in this behalf enabling, doth