1758

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 101]

examined for a second-class certificate only, subject
to the usual regulations relating to failure.
22. It is provided by "The Shipping and Seamen's
Act, 1877," section 32, that 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 of
competency, shall, for each offence, be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanour, the punishment for which is
imprisonment for any period not exceeding twelve
months, with or without hard labour, or a penalty
not exceeding one hundred pounds.
23. These provisions will be strictly enforced by
the Marine Department, and any candidate for a
certificate of competency as first- or second-class
engineer in the merchant service, who shall, know-
ingly and fraudulently, for the purpose of obtaining
any such certificate, present to the Examiner any
"application to be examined for a certificate of
competency" (Exn. 3), or statutory declaration con-
taining any false or inaccurate statement of service,
and any person who shall knowingly and fraudu-
lently make or prepare, or assist in making or
preparing, any such false or inaccurate statement
will be prosecuted.
24. If, after a candidate has passed his examina-
tion, it is discovered on further investigation that his
services are insufficient to entitle him to receive a
certificate of the grade for which he has passed, it
will not be granted to him; but, if the Marine De-
partment is satisfied that the error in the calcu-
lation of his services did not occur through any fault
or wilful misrepresentation on his part, he will be
allowed to go up for re-examination without payment
of further fee when he has performed the amount
of service in which he was deficient.
25. If, in such a case, the applicant's services are
sufficient to entitle him to receive a certificate of a
lower grade, provided, as aforesaid, he has not
wilfully misrepresented the amount of his ser-
vices, an inferior certificate may be granted to him,
and the difference, if any, between the fee paid
by him for the superior certificate and the fee
payable for the inferior certificate may be placed
to his credit.
26. In such a case, when the applicant has, by fur-
ther service, made up the amount of service in which
he was found to be short, he must, before he can
receive the higher certificate, be re-examined in all
the subjects.
27. If any certificate of competency issued by the
Marine Department which has been defaced so as to
become illegible, or has been seriously injured by wear
or tear, is presented to a Superintendent of Mercantile
Marine in the course of duty, the same should at once
be transmitted by the Superintendent to the Secre-
tary of the Marine Department, together with the
usual form of application for renewal of certificate
duly filled up, in order that a renewed certificate may
be issued. This will be done free of charge in those
cases where it is satisfactorily shown to the Marine
Department that due care has been taken of the origi-
nal. This power will have to be exercised with great
discretion by the Superintendents of Mercantile
Marine, so as not to interfere with any engagement
for sea-service which the possessor of the injured
certificate may have entered into.

QUALIFICATIONS FOR CERTIFICATES OF COMPETENCY.
28. Second-class Engineer.—A candidate for a
second-class engineer's certificate must be twenty-
one years of age.
(a.) He must have served an apprenticeship to
an engineer for three years at least, 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 apprenticeship he must prove that for not
less than three years he has been employed as
a journeyman-mechanic in some factory or
workshop on the making or repairing of
engines. (These may be either land or marine
engines.) In either case he must also have
served one year at sea in the engine-room as
an engineer on the watch in the foreign or
home trade; or
(b.) He must have served at least four years at
sea in the engine-room as an engineer on the
watch in the foreign or home trade. (See
paragraph 16.)
(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 connexions.
(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, and salinometer, and the
principles on which they are constructed.
(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 break down,
(h.) He must write a legible hand, and under-
stand the first five rules of arithmetic and
decimals, and their application to questions
about consumption of stores and full capacities
of tanks and bunkers, the duty of pumps,
and the direct strains in engines and boilers.
(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, and the use of each part.
29. First-class Engineer.—A candidate for a first-
class engineer's certificate must be twenty-two years
of age.
30. In addition to the qualification required for a
second-class engineer,—
(a.) He must either possess, or be entitled to,
a first-class engineer's certificate of service;
or, in the event of his not being so possessed
or entitled, he must have served for one year
at sea as second engineer with a second-class
engineer's certificate of competency, or for
two years at sea as second engineer with a
second-class engineer's certificate of service;
or, having served one year at sea as second
engineer with a second-class engineer's cer-
tificate of service, he must show in addition
at least six months' service as chief engineer
in a vessel required by law to carry at least
one engineer holding a certificate. (See also
paragraph 16 as regards service as third
engineer).
The Examiner should therefore be satisfied that
an applicant for a first-class engineer's cer-
tificate has not only been in possession of a
second-class certificate for the periods above
stated, but that he has actually served for
such periods in the engine-room, at sea with a
second-class certificate, in the capacities re-
ferred to, and that his name has been entered
in the articles of agreement accordingly.
(See also paragraph 18.)
(b.) He will be required to make an intelligible
hand sketch, or a working drawing, of some
one or more of the principal parts of a steam-
engine; and to mark in, without a copy, all the