June 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 747

ACCIDENTS AND COLLISIONS.

28. Every steamship when navigating any narrow channel shall, whenever it is safe and practicable, keep to that side of the fairway or mid-channel which lies on the starboard-hand of such steamship.

29. Steamships must not attempt to cross any bar having a confined channel should another ship or a steamship having a ship in tow be passing in or out at the time.

30. When steamships, having ships in tow, are steering opposite courses in a confined channel, the steamship bound down channel shall, before meeting the steamship coming up, slacken her speed when practicable, until the other has passed her.

31. Steamships at all times when under weigh must have, in addition to the helmsman, a responsible person on the bridge in charge of the ship, and also a responsible person in charge of and attending to the engine. The utmost care must be taken by the person or persons in charge to prevent accidents to other ships and boats.

32. Steamships shall, except in cases of emergency, only proceed at a moderate speed within any harbour after dark, and, if entering or leaving after dark, must sound the steam-whistle frequently.

33. Steamships shall, on nearing any ship aground, slacken their speed until safely passed.

34. Steamships about to pass any dredging machine at work in any harbour, river, or channel, or any licensed ferry, or public work in progress, must slow their engines to less than half speed for at least one hundred yards before arriving abreast of any such dredge, ferry, or work.

35. No lower square-sails shall be set on any steamship whilst navigating amongst the shipping in any harbour.

36. The master of any ship which is being navigated within any harbour of the colony, who shall neglect to observe the foregoing rules laid down for preventing collisions or other accidents, or any of the “Regulations for preventing Collisions at Sea” which may from time to time be made by Her Majesty’s Order in Council, which regulations are by section 172 of “The Shipping and Seamen’s Act, 1877,” brought into force in the colony, shall, in addition to any liabilities he may incur by so doing, be liable to a penalty under these regulations.

37. Accidents involving personal injury or loss of life or property within any harbour, and collisions of vessels with any harbour light, lightship, buoy, or beacon, are to be reported in writing by the person in charge to the Harbourmaster and Collector of Customs, as soon as possible.

38. In the event of the death of any person on board of any ship in harbour, the master of such ship shall cause the body to be buried on shore, previously reporting the particulars to the police.

GANGWAYS AND HATCHES.

39. The master of every ship, being or lying alongside of any wharf, and which ship shall have passengers on board, or be engaged in carrying passengers, or in which, if a steamship, passengers may by law be carried, shall keep, for the use of passengers or persons coming from or going on board such ship, a proper and secure gangway with double side-rails, or stanchions with ropes rove taut through the same, the top-rail or rope being not less than three feet three inches high, and shall cause such gangway to be securely fixed to and extend from one portion of the ship’s deck or side-rail to the wharf, with a good solid bearing at each end, and to be so kept fixed so long as such ship shall be alongside such wharf.

40. In the event of the outer end of any such gangway resting on the ship’s side-rail, the master of any such ship shall keep substantial steps fixed to lead from the end of the gangway to the ship’s deck.

41. In cases in which by the preceding regulations it is required that a ship shall have a gangway fixed, the master of such ship shall keep a proper bright light fixed, and burning bright and clear, over such gangway from sunset to sunrise in such a manner as to light the whole length of it properly.

42. After work has ceased for the day on board of any ship, all hatches shall be put on and properly secured to prevent accidents; and before closing the hatches an officer of the ship shall go into the hold and into the between decks and satisfy himself that there are no signs of fire.

43. In the event of fire occurring on board of a ship in harbour, all persons in charge of or otherwise belonging to any ship or boat are to afford such assistance towards extinguishing such fire, and towards the protection of other ships, as the Harbourmaster shall demand.

GENERAL.

44. Upon the arrival of any ship for the first time within any harbour, the Harbourmaster shall give, or cause to be given, to the master thereof a copy of the General Harbour Regulations, and of the Harbour By-laws then existing and in force within such harbour, unless he shall have previously received them; and it shall be the duty of each Harbourmaster to see that every master of a ship is in possession of such copies.

45. Every master of a ship to whom such copies shall be given shall sign a receipt for the same, and deliver it to the Harbourmaster.

46. It shall be the duty of each Harbourmaster to see that the General Harbour Regulations, Harbour By-laws and Regulations for the prevention of overloading and overcrowding of ships, so far as they are applicable to ships within the harbour at which he is stationed, are duly complied with, and to take such steps as may be necessary to prevent any breach, or for enforcing the provisions, thereof.

47. The Harbourmaster shall have a right of entry upon any ship or place within any harbour to search for and, if found, to extinguish any fire or light therein contrary to law, and to do all things that, and to give such orders as, he may consider necessary or expedient with a view to the safety and interest of the whole of the shipping and of the harbour.

48. If any person fails, refuses, or neglects to do anything required by these regulations, or in any manner obstructs, impedes, or interferes with the doing of anything enjoined or authorized to be done, or wilfully does anything prohibited by these regulations, every such person in any case so offending shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds.

49. Nothing contained in these regulations shall be deemed to apply to any ship, boat, or other property of Her Majesty, or to any ship of war of any foreign nation, or to any gunpowder or explosives in charge of officers in the service of the Government of the colony, during the performance of the duties of their office.

SCHEDULE B.
HARBOUR BY-LAWS.

INTERPRETATION.

In these By-laws the following terms, viz., “Gunpowder,” “Explosives,” “Harbourmaster,” and “Wharfinger,” shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the foregoing Regulations.

PILOTS AND PILOTAGE.

1. Pilots shall offer their services to the inward-bound ship nearest to them having a pilot-signal