Jumb. 120.
1685

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1878.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1878.

Regulations for the Management of the Government
Wharf, Nelson, and Shipping alongside the same.

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-sixth day of November, 1878.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Marine Act 1867 Amend-
ment Act, 1877," it is, among other things,
enacted that the Governor in Council may from
time to time make regulations in respect of any
wharf affected by or subject to the provisions of the
said Act for the following purposes :—

(1.) Regulating the use of wharves, and the traffic
on the same;

(2.) Fixing scales of dues to be paid for the use of
such wharves;

(3.) Regulating the use of cranes and other con-
veniences or appliances belonging to any
wharf, and fixing charges to be paid for the
use of the same;

(4.) Fixing scales of dues for the storage of goods,
and charges to be paid for taking into and
delivering the same from warehouses or
buildings attached to or connected with such
wharves:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the colony, and in
exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me
by the said Act, do hereby make the following regu-
lations, as set forth in the First Schedule hereto;
and with the like advice and consent I do hereby fix
the following scales of wharfage and storage dues,
as also set forth in the Second and Third Schedules
hereto, for the use of the said wharf: Provided
always that the aforesaid regulations and dues, and
other the rights and privileges hereby conferred,
may from time to time be altered, revoked, or modi-
fied by the Governor in Council.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

1. The wharf and all vessels lying alongside the
   wharf shall be subject to the provisions of "The
   Marine Act, 1867," "The Marine Act 1867 Amend-
   ment Act, 1877," "The Harbours Act, 1878," or any
   Acts amending the same, "The Nelson Harbour Act,
   1878," the Harbour Regulations for the Port of Nel-
   son for the time being, and to these regulations.

2. The lessee, or a man to be provided by him,
   shall assist in making fast or casting off all vessels
   coming alongside or departing from the wharf.

3. The lessee shall, at his own expense, provide
   and keep a sufficient number of good and proper
   lamps at such places upon the wharf as shall be fixed
   upon for that purpose by the Minister administering
   the Marine Department, properly lighted with gas,
   from sunset to sunrise every night.

4. No boats or vessels of any kind will be allowed
   to be made fast to the steps or landing-place.

5. No vessels to be hauled alongside the wharf
   without first obtaining permission from the Harbour-
   master in writing.

6. No vessel to be hauled off the wharf without
   giving due notice thereof to the Harbourmaster.

7. The master of any vessel hauling alongside the
   wharf shall, if required, lay out an anchor or anchors
   (well buoyed), as directed by the Harbourmaster,
   and shall also make fast to the wharf, as directed by
   the Harbourmaster.

8. Masters of vessels to slack down any bower or
   stream chain, or any warp or line, or get in any
   anchor, or rig in any boom, strike any yard or top-
   mast, or top any yard, or furl or lower any sail, when
   ordered so to do by the Harbourmaster.

9. The lessee to see that proper fenders are put
   over to prevent damage to the wharf.

10. No fire shall be ignited, or allowed to burn on
    board any vessel lying alongside the wharf, between
    the hours of nine o'clock p.m. and five o'clock a.m.

11. No vessels to be fumigated or smoked for the
    extermination of vermin while lying alongside the
    wharf.

12. No pitch-boiling to be allowed near the wharf.