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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

42. If any vessel or boat be sunk, stranded, or run
    on shore, or if any baulk of timber or other bulky
    article be in the water in any port or harbour, and if
    the master of such vessel, or owner or part owner,
    or charterer or hirer thereof, or the person who shall
    have been in charge of such vessel or boat at the time
    of the sinking, stranding, or running on shore thereof,
    or the owner of such timber or bulky article, or the
    person who placed put or threw such timber or
    bulky article in the water, or the master of the vessel
    or boat from which such timber or other article may
    have fallen into the water shall not clear the port or
    harbour of such vessel, timber, or article as the
    case may be, within such time as the Harbour
    Master or other officer of the port shall require, by
    notice in writing, every such person shall be liable
    to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds; and every
    such person shall be liable to a further penalty not
    exceeding fifty pounds for every period of twenty-
    four hours after the expiration of the first twenty-
    four hours after the expiration of the time fixed in
    such notice, that he shall permit such vessel, boat,
    timber, or article to remain unremoved.

43. There must be at all times on board any vessel
    at anchor in any port, with the undermentioned
    exceptions, a sufficient number of men to perform
    any services required for the safety of such vessel,
    and the master or person in charge of any such
    vessel shall at all times in port, as well by day as
    by night, have at least one seaman in charge of the
    deck of such ship or vessel; and the person having
    such charge, and all persons having the charge of or
    being on board of any boat within any port, shall
    answer to the challenge of the water police, or other
    duly authorized public officer. Exceptions-Vessels
    laid up, coal hulks, ballast or other lighters, are
    exempt from this regulation but so long only as they
    are lying within such limits as the Harbour Master
    may authorize such exempted vessels to occupy.
    Any master or other person in charge of any vessel
    who shall offend against this regulation shall be liable
    to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.

44. Masters requiring to careen, heave down, or
    haul their vessels on shore for the purpose of inspec-
    tion or repairs, must apply to the Harbour Master
    of the port for permission.

45. Accidents involving personal injury, loss of
    life or property, or loss or collision of vessels or
    boats, are to be reported in writing by the person in
    charge to the nearest Harbour Master and principal
    officer of Customs, as soon as possible.

46. In the event of the death of any person on
    board of any vessel in port, the master of such vessel
    is to cause the body to be buried on shore, previously
    reporting the particulars to the police.

47. Any person drowning any animal in the
    harbour and leaving the carcase therein, or throwing
    a dead animal into the harbour, or placing any dead
    animal below high water mark therein, shall be liable
    to a penalty not exceeding five pounds, and 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 for any one offence.

48. Any person removing shingle, stone, shells,
    or driftwood, or any part of the soil below high water
    mark, from any lands belonging to the Crown, with-
    out permission from the Harbour Master, shall
    be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds;
    a rate of one shilling per ton may (at the discretion
    of the Superintendent) be charged for ballast removed
    by authority from within the limits of the Harbour.

49. No rubbish or filth is to be landed or deposited
    on any 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 the person
    landing or depositing such rubbish or filth.

50. No ballast, rubbish, gravel, earth, stones,
    earthenware, glass, or filth, is to be thrown overboard
    from any vessel or boat within any harbour, but is to
    be landed and placed where 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 high water mark
    within the harbour. Proper tarpaulins are to be
    used in discharging or taking in ballast, coals, rub-
    bish, gravel, earth, or filth of any kind, so as to
    prevent any part thereof falling into the harbour.
    Any person who shall offend against any of the
    provisions of this regulation shall be liable to a
    penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.

51. No pitch, tar, resin, or other combustible
    matter, shall be lighted or heated on board of any
    vessel or boat while lying alongside or near any
    wharf or vessel in the harbour, nor shall any vessel
    be fumigated or smoked for the extermination of
    vermin, without permission in writing from the
    Harbour Master; and any person who shall offend
    against this regulation shall be liable to a penalty
    not exceeding twenty pounds, nor less than five
    pounds.

52. All complaints against any person connected
    with the Harbour Department must be made in
    writing to the Harbour Master.

IV.—WHARVES AND JETTIES.

53. The time allowed to vessels to occupy berths at
    quays, jetties, or wharves, for the purpose of discharg-
    ing cargo shall be (exclusive of Sundays and holidays,
    and the day of removal) :-
    For ships under 100 tons ... 2 days
    For ships from 100 to 150 tons ... 4 "
    " 150 to 200 tons ... 5 "
    " 200 to 250 tons ... 6 "
    " 250 to 300 tons ... 7 "
    and so on at the rate of one day for every additional
    fifty tons register.

54. Ships discharging cargo at outside berths to
    be allowed two days for every one of the foregoing
    scale.

55. Cargo may, with the consent of the Harbour
    Master, be discharged from any ship lying outside,
    over and across the deck of any ship lying alongside
    any quay. Vessels taking in cargo to have an unoc-
    cupied berth, which is to be given up when required
    for any other purpose by the Harbour Master.

56. Tame cattle or thoroughbred stock imported
    for breeding purposes, may be landed or shipped on
    or from any wharf or jetty, subject to the approval
    of the Harbour or Pier Master, whose permission in
    writing must first be obtained, and who shall fix the
    time at which they must be landed or shipped. All
    other descriptions of cattle must be landed at such
    places and times as the Superintendent or other person
    appointed by him for that purpose, may from time to
    time direct, and any person landing or shipping
    cattle or other stock from or into any vessel or boat,
    except in accordance with this regulation, shall be
    liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.

57. The master of any vessel arriving at any wharf
    or jetty connected with any railway shall cause the
    discharge or loading of such vessel to be commenced
    and continued till completed by working at such hours
    as the person in charge of such wharf or jetty shall,
    with the approval of the Collector of Customs, direct,
    notwithstanding any clause in these regulations to
    the contrary.

58. In the event of there not being a sufficient
    number of hands on board any vessel loading or
    discharging at a pier or wharf where a steam crane