JUNE 8.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 817

performed within home-trade limits, will not be
accepted towards qualifying a candidate for examina-
tion.

16. Service in pleasure yachts will not be accepted
    at all unless verified by satisfactory proofs, and it
    must be distinctly understood that accepted service
    is confined to actual sea-service, service in harbour
    or port being inadmissible.

17. Time for which indentures of apprenticeship
    are in force will be accepted as sea-service, provided
    that the apprentice has remained by the ship all the
    time, and the indentures of the applicant are indorsed
    by the owner or master to whom he has been bound,
    to the effect that he has performed his service faith-
    fully for the whole time ageeed upon, and provided
    also that the Examiners are satisfied that no undue
    amount of service has been performed on shore. In
    the event of the Examiners being of opinion that the
    amount of service performed by the candidate on
    shore has been excessive, they may determine how
    much further sea-service shall be required of him
    before he may present himself for examination.

18. Part of the time served on board a training-
    ship will be allowed to count as service at sea, pro-
    vided that the candidate can produce amongst his
    testimonials a certificate from the Committee that he
    has conducted himself creditably, and passed a good
    examination in seamanship so far as practised in the
    training-ship as well as in other matters down to the
    time of his leaving the ship.

19. No period of service on board a training-ship
    will be allowed to count for more than one year's
    sea-service, nor can it be accepted as equivalent to
    service in square-rigged vessels.

20. Service in auxiliary screw whaling-ships, and
    other vessels with auxiliary steam power, which use
    their screws only in calms or during light winds, is
    considered as service performed in sailing vessels.
    Such service is not to be accepted in cases where
    service on board foreign-going steamships is required.

21. Candidates whose services have been in capa-
    cities other than apprentice, ordinary seaman, or able
    seaman, e.g., cook, steward, carpenter, &c., will be
    required to satisfy the Marine Department or the
    Examiners that they have a good knowledge of sea-
    manship. This may possibly be proved by the pro-
    duction of satisfactory certificates from masters with
    whom the applicants have served. Failing satis-
    factory evidence, the applicant may be required to
    perform additional service, which must be in the
    capacity of ordinary seaman or able seaman.

22. Service in lightships, or in an engine-room,
    will not be accepted as sea-service for a master's or
    mate's certificate of competency.

23. In the case of service on board excursion
    steamers, only such service as has been performed
    actually at sea can be accepted.

24. Service as a first class pilot may be accepted
    as qualifying for examination for a master's cer-
    tificate for home-trade passenger certificates, not-
    withstanding that he may not have served in the
    capacity of mate, but only provided that his sea-ser-
    vices are sufficient. A first class pilot, with one
    year's sea-service since he obtained his pilot's certi-
    ficate, may also be examined for a first mate's certifi-
    cate for foreign-going ships.

25. Half the amount of service performed as an
    apprentice in a pilot-ship, propelled by sails, may
    count as actual sea-service to qualify for examination
    for a certificate of competency.

26. Service performed in tug-boats employed out-
    side port limits may be accepted as sea-service for
    qualifying for a mate's certificate for home-trade
    passenger ships.

27. 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.

28. These provisions will be strictly enforced by
    the Marine Department, and any candidate for a
    certificate of competency as master, or as first or
    second or only mate, in the merchant service, who
    shall, knowingly and fraudulently, for the purpose of
    obtaining any such certificate, present to the Ex-
    aminer any "application to be examined for a certi-
    ficate of competency" (Exn. 2), or statutory declara-
    tion containing any false or inaccurate statement of
    service, and any person who shall knowingly and
    fraudulently make or prepare, or assist in making or
    preparing, any such false or inaccurate statement
    will be prosecuted.

29. 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.

30. 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 wil-
    fully misrepresented the amount of his services, 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.

31. In such a case, when the applicant has, by fur-
    ther service, made up the amount in which he was
    found to be short, he must, before he can receive the
    higher certificate, be re-examined in all the subjects.

32. 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.

33. The examination of a candidate for a master's
    or mate's certificate will commence with the colour-
    test, and if he does not at the time of making appli-
    cation hold a certificate of competency of any grade,
    and he should fail to distinguish correctly any one of
    the colours used in that test, he will not be allowed
    to present himself for examination in navigation and
    seamanship, and the fee he has paid for examination
    for a certificate of competency will be returned to
    him.

34. A candidate who fails to pass the test may be
    re-examined after the lapse of three months from the
    date of his first failure. If he fails a second time he
    will be allowed a third trial at the expiration of