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127. In all other problems the logarithms to the
     nearest minute will be sufficiently correct for all
     grades except extra master, from whom a degree of
     precision will be required, both in the work and in the
     results, beyond that demanded from the inferior
     grades.

128. Any candidate who may be guilty of insolence
     to the Examiner, or of other misconduct, will render
     himself liable to the postponement of his examination,
     or, if he has passed, to the detention of his certificate
     for such period as the Marine Department may direct.

129. For rules as to amount of time allowed to
     perform the work, see "General Instructions to Ex-
     aminers and Candidates."

MASTERS' AND MATES' VOLUNTARY EXAMINATIONS IN
STEAM.

130. These examinations are limited to masters and
     first or only mates who are possessed of or entitled to
     certificates of competency, and were provided for the
     purpose of giving them an opportunity of undergoing
     a voluntary examination as to their practical know-
     ledge of the use and working of the steam-engine.

131. Any master or mate desiring to be examined
     in steam must deliver to the Superintendent of the
     Mercantile Marine Office a statement in writing to
     that effect, upon the form of application (Exn. 2),
     and the applicant's certificate of competency must be
     delivered to the Superintendent along with his state-
     ment. If he is about to pass an examination for a
     certificate of competency at the same time, the ap-
     plications should be sent in together.

132. A fee of £1. must be paid by the applicant
     for the examination in steam, and the Superin-
     tendent of the Mercantile Marine Office will there-
     upon inform him of the time and place at which he is
     to attend to be examined, and the examination will
     then and there proceed in the same manner as the
     other examinations. If the applicant fails, and has
     given in his certificate, it will at once be returned to
     him.

133. If the applicant passes, the report (Exn. 14)
     and the form (Exn. 2), with the certificate of com-
     petency, will be sent to the Marine Department. The
     words "Passed in steam," with the date and place of
     examination, will then be entered on the certificate
     and its counterpart, and the certificate will be sent
     to the Superintendent of the Mercantile Marine
     Office of the port named in the application (Exn. 2),
     to be delivered to the applicant in the usual manner.

134. If the applicant fails he may not present him-
     self for re-examination until the expiration of three
     months from the date of failure.

135. The examination is for the most part viva
     voce, and extends to a general knowledge of the
     practical use and working of the steam-engine, and
     of the various valves, fittings, and pieces of machinery
     connected with it. Intricate theoretical questions
     on calculations of horse-power, or areas of cylinders
     and valves, or any of the more difficult questions
     which appertain to steam-engines and boilers, will
     not be asked. The examination will in fact be con-
     fined to what a master of a steam-vessel may be
     called upon to perform in the case of the death,
     incapacity, or delinquency of the engineer.

136. Examiners are to be careful in their examina-
     tions to satisfy themselves that applicants really
     do know the names and uses of the various parts
     of engines and boilers, and their connecting pipes,
     valves, cocks, &c. Practical knowledge, as dis-
     tinguished from theories, abstruse calculations, and
     book-learning, is to be the test of the applicant's
     fitness to have his certificate indorsed.

137. The Examiner should arrange to conduct part
     of the examination in the engine-room of a steamship,
     unless from circumstances he finds it impossible to
     do so; and, if an opportunity offer, the applicant

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should be permitted, under the guidance of the
Examiner, to start and stop the engine of some vessel
which may have steam up.

138. The Examiner, in sending in his report of
     examinations of masters and mates in steam, should
     state where the examination has been held.

139. Candidates will be required to give written
     answers to sixteen out of twenty questions taken
     from a book of elementary questions published for
     the Marine Department. These questions will be
     altered from time to time without notice. The
     twenty questions are not to be difficult, theoretical,
     or book questions, but are to be such as any man of
     ordinary capacity ought to answer who has any prac-
     tical knowledge of the use and working of the steam-
     engine.

140. These questions, with the candidates' answers,
     should be sent to the Marine Department, with the
     reports, after each examination.

141. These answers will also assist in enabling the
     Marine Department to decide any question that
     may hereafter arise in cases where it is alleged that
     applicants have been improperly passed or improperly
     rejected.

142. The Examiners will be careful that if any
     candidate refers to any book or paper or memo-
     randum, or obtains information from another can-
     didate during the examination, he will be treated as
     having failed, will forfeit his fee, and will not be
     allowed to be re-examined for a period of three
     months.

143. The Examiners will report in the case of
     failure the nature of the question or questions that
     decided the failure, or the point in the management
     of the engine in which the candidate was deficient.

144. There is nothing in the regulations requiring
     that applicants for the voluntary examination shall
     have served on board steamships; all that is required
     is that they shall have a practical knowledge. Ex-
     aminers will, of course, not fail to appreciate the
     fact, when passing applicants, that practical know-
     ledge is best gained in the engine-room; and the
     examination of an officer who does not produce official
     evidence of service in steamships, and of experience
     of engines, must necessarily be more searching than
     in the case of one who produces evidence of such
     service and experience.

RULES FOR THE EXAMINATION OF MASTERS FOR
STEAMSHIPS PLYING WITHIN RESTRICTED LIMITS.

145. 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
     delivery to the Examiners. Certificates procured on
     false information will be cancelled.

146. All candidates for certificates must pass the
     examination in colours.

147. Master.-A master of a river steamer must be
     twenty-one years of age, and must have served at
     least one year at sea, or on board of a vessel plying
     within harbour limits. He must produce satis-
     factory testimonials of good conduct and sobriety.
     He must be able to read and write, and understand
     the first four rules of arithmetic. He must under-
     stand the rules of the road as regards both steamers
     and sailing vessels, their regulation lights, and fog
     and sound signals, International Code of Signals,
     harbour regulations, and the colonial bar and tidal
     signals.

148. Fees. The fee to be paid by the applicants
     for examination is one pound.

NOTE.-Time served in steamers plying within restricted
limits does not count as service at sea for the purpose of obtain-
ing a certificate of competency for a sea-going ship.