1498
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 98

(h.) He must write a legible hand, and understand the first five rules of arithmetic, and decimals, and their application to questions about consumption of stores, and full capacities of tanks and bunkers, the duty of pumps, and the direct strains in engines and boilers.

(i.) He must be able to pass a creditable examination as to the various constructions of paddle and screw engines in general use; as to the details of the different working parts, external and internal, and the use of each part.

(j.) He must possess a creditable knowledge of the prominent facts relating to combustion, heat, and steam.

35. First-class Engineer. — A Candidate for a First-class Engineer’s Certificate must be twenty-two years of age.

36. In addition to the qualification required for a Second-class Engineer—

(a.) He must either possess, or be entitled to, a First-class Engineer’s Certificate of Service; or, in the event of his not being so possessed or entitled, he must have served for one year at sea as Second Engineer in a Foreign-going Steamship or a Home Trade Passenger Steamship with a Second-class Engineer’s Certificate of Competency valid in New Zealand or for two years at sea as Second Engineer with a Second-class Engineer’s Certificate of Service; or having served one year at sea as Second Engineer with a Second-class Engineer’s Certificate of Service, he must show, in addition, at least six months’ service as Chief Engineer in a vessel required by law to carry at least one Engineer holding a Certificate. (See also par. 18 as regards service as Third and Fourth Engineer.)

The Examiner should therefore be satisfied that an applicant for a First-class Engineer’s Certificate has not only been in possession of a Second-class Certificate for the periods above stated, but that he has actually served for such periods in the Engine Room at sea with a Second-class Certificate, in the capacities referred to, and that his name has been entered in the articles of agreement accordingly. (See also par. 24.)

(b.) He will be required to make an intelligible hand sketch, or a working drawing of some one or more of the principal parts of a steam-engine; and to mark in, without a copy, all the necessary dimensions in figures, so that the sketch or drawing could be worked from.

(c.) He must also be able to take off and calculate indicator diagrams.

(d.) He must be able to calculate safety-valve pressures, and the strength of the boiler shell, stays, and riveting.

(e.) He must be able to state the general proportions borne by the principal parts of the machinery to each other, and to calculate the direct stress, the torsional stress, and the bending stress in round bars, and the direct stress and the bending stress in rectangular bars with given loads.

(f.) He must be able to explain the method of testing and altering the setting of the slide-valves, and to sketch about what difference any alteration in the slide-valve will make in the indicator diagram, and also the method of testing the fairness of shafts, and of adjusting them.

(g.) He must be conversant with surface condensation, super heating, and the working of steam expansively.

(h.) His knowledge of arithmetic must include the mensuration of superficies and solids and the extraction of the square root, and the application of these rules to questions relating to the power, duty, and economy of engines and boilers, and to the stresses in rods, shafts, and levers of the engine.

FEES.

37. Candidates for examination, in making their application on Form Exn. 3, will be required to pay the Examination Fees before any step is taken, whether by inquiring into their services or testing their qualifications, &c. No part of the fee will under any circumstances be returned to them, but should it be found that their service is not sufficient to entitle them to be examined, or that their testimonials are unsatisfactory, they will be allowed to present themselves for examination without paying any further fee, when they have fulfilled the requisite service, or are able to produce satisfactory testimonials, as the case may be.

38. The fee for examination must be paid to the Superintendent of the Mercantile Marine Office (Customhouse). In any case in which a Candidate offers money to any other officer than a Superintendent, and in any other place but at the Superintendent’s 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.

39. The fees are as follows:—

Second-class Engineer’s Certificate ... £ 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, either granted by the Board of Trade or by the Government of a British possession under section 8 of “The Merchant Shipping (Colonial) Act, 1869” ... ... 1 0 0

GENERAL RULES AS TO EXAMINATIONS.

40. All books necessary for the use of Candidates under examination will be provided by the Marine Department, and applicants are not permitted to take into the examining room any book, paper, document, or memoranda of any description whatever.

41. 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, but they will not be allowed to work out the problems on a slate or on waste paper. The additional sheets must be attached to and form part or the examination papers.

42. Candidates for First Class Certificates have to pass an examination in Rough Working Drawing, which may, in the Candidate’s option, be either hand sketches clearly dimensioned and complete in the necessary views and sections, or drawings to a scale. Drawing boards and T squares will be provided by the Marine Department, but the applicants will have to bring with them any drawing instruments they may require.