Nov. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1561

Prizes for Collections of Noxious Weeds and Insects.—
Notice No. 368.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 9th May, 1893.

THE date for receiving the collections mentioned in
Gazette Notice No. 365, and dated the 7th April, 1893,
has been extended to the 31st March, 1894.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Agriculture.

Additional Regulations for the Examination of Masters
and Mates.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 27th October, 1893.

IN pursuance of the power vested in me by sections 24 and
25 of "The Shipping and Seamen's Act, 1877," I do
hereby make the following additional regulations for the
examination of masters and mates, the same being similar
to regulations issued by the Board of Trade, and do hereby
order that they shall come into force on the date of the pub-
lication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

J. G. WARD.

Qualifications for Certificates of Competency for
"Foreign-going Steamships only."

1. Certificates of competency will be issued, subject to the
   examinations hereinafter described, for officers who have
   served in steamships, and who, owing to absence of service in
   square-rigged sailing-ships, cannot, under the existing regu-
   lations, obtain certificates of competency to act in the capa-
   city of masters or mates of square-rigged steamships.

2. These certificates will entitle the holders to go to sea as
   masters and mates of foreign-going steamships, but will not
   entitle the holders to go to sea as masters or mates of foreign-
   going sailing-ships.

3. There will be no distinction in respect of "fore-and-aft"
   and "square-rigged" steamships.

4. All candidates for certificates of competency must pass
   the examination in colours.

5. A Second Mate must be seventeen years of age, and
   must have been four years at sea.

6. In Navigation, &c.—He must write a legible hand, and
   will be required to give in writing definitions of various
   astronomical and other terms used in navigation. He must
   have a competent knowledge of the first five rules of arith-
   metic and the use of logarithms. He must be able to work
   a day's work complete, correcting the courses for deviation,
   leeway, and variation. He will be required to find the lati-
   tude by meridian altitude of the sun, and the difference of
   longitude from a given departure by parallel sailing; also to
   find the course and distance from one position to another by
   Mercator's method. He will be required to find the time of
   high water at a given port, to observe and calculate the
   amplitude of the sun, and to find the error of the ship's com-
   pass therefrom, and also the deviation, the variation being
   given. He must be able to find the daily rate of the chrono-
   meter from error observed, and to find the longitude from
   altitude of the sun by the usual methods. He must under-
   stand the use of the sextant with its adjustments, and be
   able to observe with it, find the index error by the horizon,
   and read off and on the arc. He must also pass a satisfac-
   tory examination in the international code of signals.

7. In Seamanship, &c.—He must give satisfactory answers
   as to the standing and running rigging of steamships; as to
   bending, unbending, setting, reefing, taking in, and furling
   sail; as to sending masts and yards up and down, &c.; as
   to seeing everything in readiness and clear for getting under
   way, and as to the precautions to be then observed with
   regard to engines, propeller, &c.; as to the management of a
   steamship when under canvas, and of a ship's boat in heavy
   weather; and as to dunnaging and stowing cargo, &c. He
   must have a thorough knowledge of the rule of the road as
   regards both steamers and sailing-vessels, their regulation
   lights and fog and sound signals, and be able to describe the
   signals of distress and the signals to be made by ships
   wanting a pilot, and the liabilities and penalties incurred by
   the misuse of these signals. He must also be able to mark and
   use the lead- and log-lines. He must also understand the
   construction, use, and action of the sluices, and of the
   water-ballast tanks, engine-room telegraphs, &c.; the use
   and management of the rocket apparatus in the event of his
   vessel being stranded; and other questions of a like nature
   appertaining to the duties of the second mate of a steamship
   which the examiner may think necessary to put to him.

8. An Only or First Mate.—An only mate must be nine-
   teen years of age, and must have served five years at sea. A
   first mate must be nineteen years of age, and must have
   served five years at sea, of which one year must have been as
   second or only mate of a foreign-going steamship.

9. In Navigation, &c.—In addition to the qualifications
   required for a second mate, an only and first mate must be
   able to find the true bearing of the sun and the error of the
   ship's compass from an observed azimuth of the sun, both
   from an altitude and also from "The Time Azimuth Tables,"
   and with the variation given compute the deviation; to find
   the latitude from a single altitude of the sun off the meri-
   dian, and to be able to use and adjust the sextant, and to
   find the index error by the sun; and also to ascertain the
   true bearing of the sun, &c., and the ship's position by Sum-
   ner's method by projection. He must also be conversant
   with the use of Mercator's Chart, and be able to find, on
   either a "true" or "magnetic" chart, the course to steer
   and the distance from one given position to another; and
   find the ship's position on the chart from cross-bearings of
   two objects, from two bearings of the same object, the course
   and distance run between taking the bearings being given, and
   the distance of ship from the object at the time of taking the
   second bearing. He must also understand how to keep a
   ship's log-book. He will also be required to answer certain
   questions in writing and orally relating to cyclones or re-
   volving storms.

10. In Seamanship, &c.—In addition to the qualifications
    required for a second mate, a more extensive knowledge
    of seamanship will be required: as to shifting large spars,
    rigging shears, taking lower masts in and out, how to moor
    and unmoor ship and to keep a clear anchor, to carry out an
    anchor, how to manage a steamship in stormy weather, and
    how to rig purchases for getting heavy weights, anchors,
    machinery, &c., in and out. He must give satisfactory
    answers as to the ventilation of holds and the stowage of
    explosives. He must be able to describe the effects of the
    screw-race upon the rudder, and the effect produced on the
    direction of the head of the ship by going [ahead] [astern]
    with a [right-] [left-] handed screw when the rudder is
    [ported] [starboarded]. He must also know how to rig a
    sea-anchor, and what means to apply to keep a steamer
    with machinery disabled out of the trough of the sea, and
    lessen her lee drift; how to turn a steamship short round;
    how to get east of deep-sea lead in heavy weather; and other
    questions of a like nature appertaining to the duties of an
    only and first mate of a steamship which the examiner may
    think necessary to put to him.

11. A Master must be twenty-one years of age, and have
    been six years at sea, of which one year must have been as
    first or only mate in a foreign-going steamship, and one year
    as second or only mate; or he must have been six and a
    half years at sea, of which two and a half years must have
    been as second or only mate in a foreign-going steamship,
    during the last twelve months of which he must have been
    in possession of a first mate's certificate.

12. In Navigation, &c.—In addition to the qualifications
    required for a second, only, and first mate, he must be able
    to compute the latitude from the meridian altitude of a star;
    he must be able to find the magnetic bearing from equidistant
    compass bearings of any fixed object when at sea, and com-
    pute the deviation therefrom. He must construct a deviation
    curve upon a "Napier's" diagram, which will be furnished
    by the examiner, and understand the practical application
    of the same, and give satisfactory written (and oral) answers
    to certain practical questions on the effect of the ship's iron
    upon the compasses, the method of determining the deviation,
    and compensating same by magnets and soft iron. He will
    be required to find the course to steer by compass in order
    to counteract the effect of a given current, and find the dis-
    tance the ship will make good towards a given point in a
    certain time, and to work out practically the correction to
    apply to soundings taken at a given time and place, to com-
    pare with the depth marked on the chart.

13. In Seamanship, &c.—In addition to the qualifications
    required of a second, only, and first mate, he must be able to
    construct rafts and jury-rudders suitable for a screw steam-
    ship. He will be examined as to his resources for the pre-
    servation of the ship's crew in the event of wreck; as to the
    management of steamships in heavy weather; as to rescuing
    the crew of a disabled ship; as to steps to be taken when a
    ship is on her beam-ends, or if disabled and on a lee shore;
    how to use steam appliances in the event of fire, and the
    best arrangement for towing vessels under different circum-
    stances, placing ship in dry dock, directing repairs, and the
    mode of procedure if putting into port in distress with damage
    to cargo and ship. He must possess a sufficient knowledge
    of what he is required to do by law as to entry and discharge,
    and the management of his crew, and as to the penalties, and
    entries to be made in the official log, and a knowledge of the
    measures for preventing and checking the outbreak of scurvy
    on board ship, and the law as to load-line marks, and the
    entries and reports to be made respecting them. He will be
    questioned as to his knowledge of invoices, charter-party,
    bills of lading, Lloyd's agent, and as to the nature of bot-
    tomry, also bills of exchange, surveys, averages, &c., and
    answer any other questions of a like nature appertaining to
    the management of a steamship which the examiner may
    consider it necessary to touch upon.