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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

ducing them no person will be examined. The
testimonials of servitude of foreigners, and of
British seamen serving in foreign vessels, which
cannot be verified, must be confirmed either by the
Consul of the country to which the ship belonged
in which the candidate served, or by some other
recognized official authority of that country,
'or by the testimony of some credible person on
the spot having personal knowledge of the facts
required to be established. Certificates procured
on false information will be cancelled.

6. Penalty on False Information.—If it shall
be found that any certificate has been issued under
these rules upon false or erroneous information,
such certificate may be cancelled.

7. Penalties for False Representations, &c.—
Every person who makes, or procures to be made,
or assists in making, any false representation for
the purpose of obtaining for himself or for any
other person a certificate either of competency
or service, or who forges, assists in forging, or
procures to be forged, or fraudulently alters,
assists in fraudulently altering, or procures to be
fraudulently altered, any such certificate or any
official copy of any such certificate, or who
fraudulently makes use of any such certificate or
any copy of any such certificate which is forged,
altered, cancelled, suspended, or to which he is
not justly entitled, or who fraudulently lends his
certificate to or allows the same to be used by any
other person, shall for each offence be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanour.

8. Verification of Services, &c., by Articles.—
Services which cannot be verified by proper entries
in the articles of the ships in which the candi-
dates have served cannot be counted. Thus, for
instance, a man will state his service to have been
as second or only mate, and to support his assertion
will produce a certificate of discharge or of em-
ployment by the master, stating that he served as
mate, when on reference to the articles it appears
that he has actually been rated as boatswain: the
service in such a case will not be regarded as
having been in the capacity of mate. Whenever
a man has, from any cause, been regularly pro-
moted on a vacancy in the course of a voyage
from the rank for which he first shipped, and such
promotion, with the ground on which it has been
made, is properly entered in the articles and in
the official log-book, he will, of course, receive
credit for his service in the higher grade for the
period subsequent to his promotion.

Certificates will only be granted to persons who
for a period of three years immediately pre-
ceding their applications, or for several periods
amounting together to three years, the earliest of
which shall have commenced within five years
prior to such application, have been domiciled in
or have served in a ship or ships registered in one
or more of the following Australasian Colonies,
—viz., the colonies on the continent of Australia,
New Zealand, and Tasmania. Certificates of
competency granted contrary to this rule shall be
regarded as improperly granted. Service in coast-
ing trade may be allowed to count.

9. In order to meet the case of persons not
having been domiciled in New Zealand for three
years, certificates will be issued to such persons
who shall pass the requisite examinations provided
for in these rules (with the exception of the ex-
aminations for extra master, extra first-class en-
gineer, or for the voluntary examination in the
deviation of the compass, or for masters' and
mates' voluntary examination in steam); but such
certificates will not be issued under the provisions
of Her Majesty's Order in Council of the 12th
February, 1876, and therefore will not be recog-
nised by the Board of Trade. These certificates
will differ in form from those issued under Her
Majesty's Order in Council.

10. All candidates for examination for masters'
or mates' certificates shall pass a test examination
as to their ability to distinguish the following
colours, which enter largely into the combinations
of signals by day or night used at sea—namely,
black, white, red, green, yellow, and blue.

In the event of his failing to do so, in even
one of these colours, the Examiners must decline
to proceed to the regular examination, and must
forward to the Marine Department a special
report of the case. In the event of such a case
arising, the whole of the fee paid by the candi-
date will be returned.

11. Where the Examiners are in every respect
satisfied with the testimonials of a candidate,
service in the coasting trade may be allowed to
count as service in order to qualify him for
examination for a certificate of competency for
foreign-going ships as a mate, and two years'
service as mate in the coasting trade may be
allowed to count as service for a Master's Certifi-
cate, provided the candidate's name has been
entered as mate on the coasting articles, and pro-
vided he has already passed an examination.

QUALIFICATION FOR CERTIFICATES OF COMPETENCY
FOR A FOREIGN-GOING SHIP.

12. The qualifications required for the several
ranks under-mentioned are as follow:—

Candidates for the ordinary Certificate of
Master ordinary, First Mate, only Mate, and
Second Mate, will be required to prove that they
have served at sea at least twelve months in square-
rigged sailing vessels.

In order that this rule may not press hardly
on those whose services have been confined to
"fore-and-aft rigged" vessels, it has been de-
cided to extend the issue of certificates for "fore-
and-aft rigged" vessels, which are now only
issued to masters, to the several grades of mates.

A certificate for "fore-and-aft rigged" vessels
will not entitle the holder to act in square-rigged
vessels.

A candidate possessing a certificate for "fore-
and-aft rigged" vessels, and desiring to obtain an
ordinary certificate of the same grade, must prove
that he has served at sea at least twelve months
in a square-rigged sailing vessel, and will be
examined in both navigation and seamanship.
He will be required to pay half the usual fee.

13. Second Mate.—A second mate must be
seventeen years of age, and must have been four
years at sea.

In Navigation: He must write a legible hand,
and understand the first five rules of arithmetic,
and the use of logarithms. He must be able to
work a day's work complete, including the bear-
ings and distance of the port he is bound to, by
Mercator's method; to correct the sun's declina-