1760

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 101]

have fulfilled the requisite service, or are able to
produce satisfactory testimonials, as the case may be,
they will be allowed to again present themselves for
examination for a certificate of the same grade with-
out paying any further fee.
36. In any case in which a candidate offers
money to any other than the proper officer, and in
any place but in the proper office, the candidate so
offering money will be regarded as having committed
an act of misconduct, and will be rejected, and not
allowed to be examined for twelve months either
at the port where the offence was committed or at
any other port.

FEES.
37. The fees are as follow:—
Second-class engineer's certificate ... £1 0 0
First-class engineer's certificate ... 2 0 0
First-class engineer's certificate, if
already in possession of a second-
class certificate of competency ... 1 0 0
Extra first-class engineer's certificate,
first attempt ... Nil.
Extra first-class engineer's certificate,
for every subsequent attempt ... 1 0 0

GENERAL RULES AS TO EXAMINATIONS.
38. All books necessary for the use of candidates
under examination will be provided by the Marine
Department, and applicants will not be permitted to
take into the examining-room any book, paper, docu-
ment, or memoranda of any description whatever,
except in the case of examination for extra first-class
certificates (see paragraph 49), and subject to the
provisions referred to hereafter. They will also not
be allowed to work out their problems on a slate or
on waste paper.
39. Candidates will be allowed in the time allotted
to cancel any part of their work, and when required
additional papers will be supplied by the Examiner.
These additional sheets must be attached to and form
part of the examination papers.
40. Candidates for first-class certificates have to
pass an examination in rough working drawing,
which may be either hand sketches clearly dimen-
sioned and complete in the necessary views and
sections, or drawings to a scale. Drawing boards
and T squares will be provided by the Marine De-
partment, but the applicants will have to bring with
them any drawing instruments they may require.
41. In the event of any candidate being discovered
copying from another, or affording any assistance or
giving any information to another, or communicating
in any way with another during the time of examina-
tion, he will be regarded as having failed in his
examination, and will be turned back for three
months, in the same manner as if he had failed in the
practical part of the examination; and no part of
the fees he may have paid for examination will be
returned to him.
42. If a candidate leaves the room before answer-
ing any question which has been given to him, he
cannot afterwards be permitted to answer it, but the
Examiner may substitute other data or another
question.
43. All applicants presenting themselves for ex-
amination will be required to give written answers to
eight out of a list of ten questions selected from
Form Exn. 15 a, "Elementary questions for the first-
class examinations of engineers for certificates of com-
petency, and of masters and mates for certificates in
steam." These questions are intended to furnish a
record to some extent of the candidate's knowledge
at the time of his examination, and also to induce the
candidates to pay more attention to their handwriting
and spelling.
44. The Form Exn. 15b, on which these answers
will be written, contains also some questions as to
the experience of the applicant, to be answered by
him in writing.
45. Examiners may add to their vivâ voce questions
on the practical management of steam-engines and
boilers any of those contained in Exn. 15 a.
46. If at the expiration of the time allowed the
candidate has worked out correctly the whole of the
questions set to him, and given satisfactory answers
in the vivâ voce examination, he will be declared to
have passed.
47. If at the expiration of the time allowed he has
not worked out the whole of the questions set to
him, but if the result of the vivâ voce examination
taken in connexion with the answers to such of the
questions as he has worked out are sufficient to
satisfy the Examiner that the applicant is competent
to take charge of engines of 100 nominal horse-
power or upwards, he will be declared to have
passed.
48. In other cases he will be declared to have
failed.

FAILURE.
49. Candidates for examination for extra first-
class certificates may, when permitted, use their own
books, but these must be shown to the Examiner,
who will exclude any books of a character specially
prepared for candidates for these examinations.
50. A report of the examination, and the Exami-
nation Papers, will be forwarded to the Marine De-
partment on the Form Exn. 15.
51. If the candidate passes he will receive the
Form Exn. 16, which authorizes the Superintendent
of the Mercantile Marine Office to which it is
addressed by the Examiner to issue the certificate to
the candidate, whose testimonials, &c., will be re-
turned at the same time. It is therefore important
that the port of destination of the certificate should
be the same on both the Form Exn. 16 and the Form
Exn. 3. If circumstances should make any alteration
necessary, the Examiner should see that it is made
in both forms, otherwise delay in the issue of the
certificate may be caused.

FAILURE.
52. If the applicant fails in the vivâ voce or prac-
tical part of the examination he may not present
himself for re-examination until he can produce
proofs of three months' further service at sea as
engineer from the date of failure. If he fails in
arithmetic or drawing only, he may come up again at
any time.

RULES FOR THE EXAMINATION OF ENGINEERS FOR STEAMSHIPS FLYING WITHIN RESTRICTED LIMITS.

1. General.—Candidates for examination must
   make a proper application on a form which will be
   supplied on application at any Customhouse. This
   application, accompanied with the necessary testi-
   monials, must be lodged at the Customhouse for de-
   livery to the Examiners. Certificates procured on
   false information will be cancelled.
2. Engineer.—An engineer of a river steamer must
   be twenty-one years of age, and must have been
   employed about the machinery or boilers of a steamer,
   or in driving machinery and having charge of the
   boiler of a land engine, for at least one year. He must
   produce satisfactory testimonials of good conduct
   and sobriety. He must be able to read and write,
   and must understand the first five rules of arithmetic.
   He must understand the use of the salinometer,
   and vacuum and steam gauges.
   He must understand how to keep the boiler free
   from incrustation, and the method of regulating the
   density of the water in the boiler.