798
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 35

land occupied by any pa, village, or cultivation, or any
buildings, gardens, orchards, plantations, or any burial or
ornamental grounds, without the previous consent of the
Governor in Council:
And whereas an application has been made by the Otama-
tea County Council for the issue of an Order in Council
under the said section consenting to the taking of land for a
road through the land described in the Schedule hereto,
a portion of which is occupied by an orchard in cultivation:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby
consent to the land described in the Schedule hereto being
taken by the said County Council for the purposes of a
road.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by
admeasurement 6 acres 3 roods 15 perches, more or less,
being part of Ohungarere No. 4 Block (3740), and being a
strip 100 links wide for a distance of 4334·2 links and there-
after of greater width, the north-eastern side of which com-
mences at the north-western corner of Ohungarere No. 1
Block (3681), and extends to the Wairau River, a distance of
4737 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; as the
same is particularly delineated upon a plan marked 7144,
deposited in the district office of the Lands and Survey
Department, at Auckland, in the Auckland Land District,
and thereon coloured red.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Life-saving Appliances for Ships.

GLASGOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this sixth day
of May, 1895.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section 20 of "The Shipping
and Seamen's Act Amendment Act, 1894," that the
Governor in Council may from time to time make, rescind,
and vary rules with respect to all or any of the matters men-
tioned in the Second Schedule of that Act:
And whereas it is desirable to make rules for defining the
boats, rafts, or other appliances for saving life to be carried
by ships, and otherwise as hereinafter appears:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority conferred upon him by the said Act, and acting by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
the said colony, doth hereby make the rules set forth in the
Schedule hereto, that is to say:—

SCHEDULE.

DIVISION A.—CLASS 1.

Rules and Table for Steamships carrying Emigrant Pas-
sengers subject to all the Provisions of the Acts of the
Imperial Parliament known as "the Passengers Acts."
(a.) Ships of Division A, Class 1, shall carry boats placed
under davits, fit and ready for use, and having proper
appliances for getting them into the water, in number and
capacity as prescribed by the table in the Appendix to these
rules; such boats shall be equipped in the manner required
by, and shall be of the description defined in, the general
rules appended hereto.
(b.) Masters or owners of ships of this class claiming to
carry fewer boats under davits than are given in the table
must declare before the Collector or other officer of Customs,
at the time of clearance, that the boats actually placed under
davits are sufficient to accommodate all persons on board,
allowing 10 cubic feet of boat-capacity for each adult person,
or "statute adult."
(c.) Not less than half the number of boats placed under
davits, having at least half the cubic capacity required by the
tables, shall be boats of Section A or Section B. The remain-
ing boats may also be of such description, or may, in the
option of the shipowner, conform to Section C or Section D,
provided that not more than two boats shall be of Section D.
(d.) If the boats placed under davits in accordance with
the table do not furnish sufficient accommodation for all
persons on board, then additional wood, metal, collapsible, or
other boats of approved description (whether placed under
davits or otherwise), or approved life-rafts, shall be carried.
One of these boats may be a steam-launch; but in that case
the space occupied by the engines and boilers is not to be
included in the estimated cubic capacity of the boat.
Subject to the provisions contained in paragraph (f) of
these rules, such additional boats or rafts shall be of at least
such carrying-capacity that they and the boats required to

be placed under davits by the table provide together in the
aggregate in vessels of 5,000 tons gross and upwards, three-
fourths, and in vessels of less than 5,000 tons gross, one-half,
more than the minimum cubic contents required by column 3
of that table. For this purpose 3 cubic feet of air-case in
the life-raft is to be estimated as 10 cubic feet of internal
capacity. Provided always that the rafts will accommodate
all the persons for which they are to be certified under the
rules, and also have 3 cubic feet of air-case for each person.
All such additional boats or rafts shall be placed as con-
veniently for being available as the ship's arrangements
admit of, having regard to the avoidance of undue encum-
brance of the ship's deck, and to the safety of the ship for
her voyage.
(e.) In addition to the life-saving appliances before men-
tioned, ships of this class shall carry not less than one
approved life-buoy for every boat placed under davits. They
shall also carry approved life-belts or other similar approved
articles of equal buoyancy suitable for being worn on the
person, so that there may be at least one for each person on
board the ship.
(f.) Provided, nevertheless, that no ship of this class shall
be required to carry more boats or rafts than will furnish
sufficient accommodation for all persons on board.

DIVISION A.—CLASS 2.

Rules for Foreign-going Steamships having Certificates of
Survey, under the Shipping and Seamen's Acts, authorising
them to carry Passengers, or having Passenger Certificates
issued by the Board of Trade or any British Colony.

Ships of this class shall be subject to the same require-
ments as those in Division A, Class 1.

DIVISION A.—CLASS 3.

Rules for Steamships having Certificates of Survey under the
Shipping and Seamen's Acts, authorising them to carry
Passengers anywhere within the Home-trade Limits, that is
to say, between any Ports or Places in New Zealand, but
not to or from the Chatham Islands, the Auckland Islands,
or Campbell Island, and Steamships holding Passenger
Certificates issued by the Board of Trade, or any British
Possession or Foreign Country, which have been exempted
from Survey under Section 200 of "The Shipping and
Seamen's Act, 1877," and which carry Passengers anywhere
within the Home-trade Limits aforesaid.

(a.) Ships of this class shall carry boats placed under
davits, in accordance with the table.
(b.) Masters or owners of ships of this class claiming to
carry fewer boats under davits than are given in the table
must declare before the Collector or other officer of Customs
that the boats actually placed under davits are sufficient to
accommodate all persons on board, allowing 10 cubic feet of
boat-capacity for each adult person, or "statute adult."
(c.) Not less than half the number of boats placed under
davits shall be boats of Section A or Section B. The re-
maining boats may also be of such description, or may, in
the option of the shipowner, conform to Section C or Sec-
tion D, provided that not more than two boats shall be of
Section D.
(d.) If the boats placed under davits in accordance with
this requirement do not furnish sufficient accommodation for
all persons on board, then additional wood, metal, collapsible,
or other boats of approved description (whether placed under
davits or otherwise), or approved life-rafts, or approved buoy-
ant deck-seats, or other approved buoyant deck-fittings, shall
be carried of at least such cubical capacity that they and
the boats required to be placed under davits by the table
provide together in the aggregate one-half more than the
minimum cubic contents provided by column 3 of that table.
For this purpose 3 cubic feet of air-case in the life-raft is to
be estimated as 10 cubic feet of internal capacity. Provided
always that the rafts will accommodate all the persons for
which they are to be certified under the rules, and also have
3 cubic feet of air-case for each person.
(e.) Ships of this class shall carry not less than six approved
life-buoys.
(f.) They shall also carry, in addition to the boats and
appliances required above, approved life-belts or other similar
approved articles of equal buoyancy suitable for being worn
on the person, so that there may be at least one for each
person on board the ship.
(g.) Provided, nevertheless, that no ship of this class shall
be required to carry more boats, rafts, and other buoyant
deck-fittings than will furnish sufficient accommodation for
all persons on board.

DIVISION A.—CLASS 4.

Rules for Foreign-going Steamships not certified to carry
Passengers.

(a.) Ships of this class shall carry, on each side, at least so
many and such boats of wood or metal placed under davits
(of which one on one side shall be a boat of Section A or
Section B, and on the other side shall be a boat of Section A,