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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

in "The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act,
1862," relative to the examination of and issue of
Certificates to Engineers are adapted to New Zealand :
And whereas it is expedient to make regulations for
such examinations :

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of all powers and authorities in
me vested in that behalf, do hereby make the Regula-
tions set forth in the Schedule hereto for the examin-
ation of and the issue of certificates to Engineers
within the Colony of New Zealand, and do order that
such Regulations shall come into force from the day
of the date hereof.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty's
Most Honorable Privy Council, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the
same, at the Government House, at
Wellington, this nineteenth day of Feb-
ruary, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.

SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS FOR THE EXAMINATION OF
ENGINEERS FOR CERTIFICATES OF COMPETENCY.

1. Certificates of two Grades. - Engineers' Certifi-
   cates are of two grades, namely, "First-class Engi-
   neers' Certificates," and "Second-class Engineers'
   Certificates."

2. Certificates of Competency granted to persons
   who pass requisite Examinations. - Certificates of Com-
   petency will be granted to those persons who pass
   the requisite examinations, and otherwise comply with
   the requisite conditions.

3. Application for Examination. - The application
   for examination is to be made in the prescribed form.
   The same rules are to be observed by Engineers in
   making application to be examined, in paying fees
   and in forwarding testimonials, as in the case of
   applications by Masters and Mates. Vide Regula-
   tions issued 12th July, 1873, and published in New
   Zealand Gazette No. 45, of 17th July, 1873.

QUALIFICATIONS FOR CERTIFICATES OF
COMPETENCY.

4. Qualification of Candidates for Second-class
   Engineer's Certificate. - A candidate for a Second-
   class Engineer's Certificate must be 21 years of
   age :

(a.) He must have served an apprenticeship to
an Engineer, and prove that during the
period of his apprenticeship he has been
employed on the making and repairing of
engines: Or if he has not served an appren-
ticeship, he must prove that for not less than
three years he has been employed in some
factory or workshop on the making or repair-
ing of engines. In either case he must also
have served one year at sea in the engine-
room; or

(b.) He must have served at least four years at
sea in the engine-room.

(c.) He must be able to give a description of
boilers, and the methods of staying them;
together with the use and management of
the different valves, cocks, pipes, and con-
nections.

(d.) He must understand how to correct defects
from accident, decay, &c., and the means of
repairing such defects.

(e.) He must understand the use of the baro-
meter, thermometer, hydrometer, and salino-
meter.

(f.) He must state the causes, effects, and usual
remedies for incrustation and corrosion.

(g.) He must be able to state how a temporary
or permanent repair could be effected in case
of derangement of a part of the machinery, or
total breakdown.

(h.) He must write a legible hand, and under-
stand the first five rules of arithmetic, and
decimals.

(i.) He must be able to pass a creditable exami-
nation as to the various constructions of
paddle and screw engines in general use;
as to the details of the different working
parts, external and internal, with the use of
each part.

5. Qualification of Candidate for First-class Engi-
   neer's Certificate. - A candidate for a First-class
   Engineer's Certificate must be twenty-two years of
   age.

In addition to the qualification required for a
Second-class Engineer—

(a.) He must have served for one year with a
Second-class Engineer's Certificate of Compe-
tency in the capacity of a Second Engineer,
and his name must have been entered in the
articles of agreement accordingly.

By this it is intended that the same rule shall be
observed in the examination of Engineers as
is observed in the examination of Masters and
Mates; viz., that before the certificate of a
higher grade is granted, certain service in the
lower grade must be performed.

The Examiner should therefore be satisfied that
applicants for the First-class Engineer's Cer-
tificate have not only been in possession of a
Second-class Certificate for twelve months,
but that they have actually served for a period
of not less than twelve months in the engine-
room with a Second-class Certificate.

(b.) He must be able to make rough working
drawings of the different parts of the engines
and boilers.

(c.) He must also be able to take off and calculate
indicator diagrams.

(d.) He must be able to calculate safety-valve
pressures, and the strength of the boiler.

(e.) He must be able to state the general pro-
portions borne by the principal parts of the
machinery to each other.

(f.) He must be able to explain the method of
testing and altering the setting of the slide
valves, and of testing the fairness of the
paddle and screw shafts, and of adjusting them.

(g.) He must be conversant with surface con-
densation, super-heating, and the working of
steam expansively.

(h.) His knowledge of arithmetic must include
the mensuration of superficies and solids, and
the extraction of the square root.

GENERAL RULES AS TO EXAMINATIONS AND
FEES.

6. Time allowed for Working Problems. - The
   examination will be partly viva voce, and partly by
   examination papers. It will be directed specially
   to the above points, and to the duties and business of
   an Engineer generally.