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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 32

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Honour Mr. Justice Williams has this day appointed FREDERICK HAMMOND CLARK, of Wanstead, in the County of Essex, in England, Solicitor, to be and act as a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in England, for the purpose of taking oaths, affidavits, and affirmations under and within the meaning of “The Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875.”

Dated this 30th day of May, 1890.

COLIN McK. GORDON,
Registrar at Dunedin of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

Government Insurance Commissioner resigned.

Government Life Insurance Department,
Wellington, 7th June, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by

FREDERICK WILLIAM FRANKLAND, Esq., F.I.A., F.S.S.,
of his appointment as Government Insurance Commissioner, as from the 7th instant.

EDWIN MITCHELSON,
(For the Colonial Treasurer.)

Government Actuary and Statist resigned.

Government Life Insurance Department,
Wellington, 7th June, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by

FREDERICK WILLIAM FRANKLAND, Esq., F.I.A., F.S.S.,
of his appointment as Actuary and Statist to the Government of New Zealand, as from the 7th instant.

EDWIN MITCHELSON,
(For the Colonial Treasurer.)

Teacher’s Certificate cancelled.

Education Department,
Wellington, 10th June, 1890.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the certificate granted under “The Education Act, 1877,” to

HENRY CAPE-WILLIAMSON,
lately a Schoolmaster under the Education Board of North Canterbury, has been cancelled.

T. W. HISLOP.

Despatch.—Merchant Shipping Acts (Imperial), and Official Secrets Act (Imperial).

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 4th June, 1890.

THE following despatch, received from Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information.

W. R. RUSSELL.

(Circular.)
Downing Street, 20th January, 1890.

My LORD,—I have the honour to inform you that the usual number of copies of the statutes passed in the last session of Parliament (52 and 53 Vict.), which are supplied for the use of the colony under your Government, have been transmitted to you.

The Passengers Acts Amendment Act, c. 29, the Revenue Act, c. 42, and the Merchant Shipping (Colours) Act, c. 73, have been already communicated to you by my circular despatch of the 5th and 12th of September, and the 5th of October.

I have to call your attention to the Merchant Shipping (Tonnage) Act, c. 43, the Merchant Shipping Act, c. 46, and the Official Secrets Act, c. 52, which should be made known in the colony under your Government.

I have, &c.,

KNUTSFORD.

The Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand.

CHAPTER 43.

An Act to amend the Law relating to the Measurement of the Tonnage of Merchant Ships.

[26th August, 1889.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Amendment of rules for measurement of tonnage.

1. (1.) In the measurement of a ship for the purpose of ascertaining her register tonnage, no deduction shall be allowed in respect of any space which has not been first included in the measurement of her tonnage.

(2.) In section twenty-one, paragraph (4), of “The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854,” the words “First, that nothing shall be added for a closed-in space solely appropriated to the berthing of the crew, unless such space exceeds one-twentieth of the remaining tonnage of the ship, and in case of such excess the excess only shall be added ; and secondly” ; and in section twenty-two, paragraph (2), of the same Act the words “subject to the deduction for a closed-in space appropriated to the crew, as mentioned in Rule I.” shall be repealed.

Provided that this section shall not apply until after the expiration of five years from the date of the passing of this Act to any ship in the measurement or remeasurement of which the deductions prohibited by this section have been made before the tenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, or to any ship the building of which was commenced before the tenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and which is registered for the first time between that date and the last day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, unless in either case the ship is, before the expiration of the said five years, measured or remeasured in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and any such ship may be measured or remeasured at the request of the owner.

But this exemption shall not extend to any ship in the case of which the allowance for propelling-power space exceeds fifty per cent. of the gross tonnage of the ship.

Subject as aforesaid, the tonnage of every ship shall be estimated for all purposes as if any deduction prohibited by this section had not been made, and the particulars relating to the ship’s tonnage in the register-book and in her certificate of registry shall be corrected accordingly.

Rule as to allowance for engine room in steamers.

2. In the case of any ship built or measured after the passing of this Act, such portion of the space or spaces above the crown of the engine-room and above the upper deck as is framed in for the machinery or for the admission of light and air shall not be included in the measurement of the space occupied by the propelling power, except in pursuance of a request in writing to the Board of Trade by the owner of the ship, and shall not be included in pursuance of such request unless—

(a.) That portion is first included in the measurement of the gross tonnage ; and

(b.) A surveyor appointed under the Fourth Part of “The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854,” certifies that the portion so framed in is reasonable in extent and is so constructed as to be safe and seaworthy, and that it cannot be used for any purpose other than the machinery or for the admission of light and air to the machinery or boilers of the ship.

Deductions for navigation spaces, &c.

3. (1.) In measuring or remeasuring a ship for the purpose of ascertaining her register tonnage, the following deductions shall be made from the space included in the measurement of the tonnage :—

(a.) In the case of a ship wholly propelled by sails, any space set apart and used exclusively for the storage of sails :

(b.) In the case of any ship—

(i.) Any space used exclusively for the accommodation of the master ;

(ii.) Any space used exclusively for the working of the helm, the capstan, and the anchor-gear, or for keeping the charts, signals, and other instruments of navigation, and boatswain’s stores ; and

(iii.) The space occupied by the donkey-engine and boiler, if connected with the main pumps of the ship.

(2.) The deductions allowed under this section shall be subject to the following provisions, namely :—

(a.) The space deducted must be certified by a surveyor appointed by the Board of Trade as reasonable in extent and properly and efficiently constructed for the purpose for which it is intended ;

(b.) There must be permanently marked in or over every such space a notice stating the purpose to which it is to be applied, and that whilst so applied it is to be deducted from the tonnage of the ship ;

(c.) The deduction on account of space for storage of sails must not exceed 2½ per cent. of the tonnage of the ship.

Provisions as to deductions in case of certain steamships.

4. In the case of a screw steamship which, at the passing of this Act, has an engine-room allowance of 32 per cent. of the gross tonnage of the ship, and in which any crew-space