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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 11

Notice as to Day for closing under “The Shops and Shop-assistants Act, 1894.”

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 18th February, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that, in exercise of the powers conferred upon me in this behalf by “The Shops and Shop-assistants Act, 1894,” and in terms of notice in writing duly received by me from the Chairman of the conference of delegates appointed by all the local authorities comprised in the district constituted for the purpose of that Act by the Boroughs of Petone and Lower Hutt (being all the boroughs or town districts any part of any one of which is situate within a mile of any part of another), I, Richard John Seddon, Minister of Labour, hereby appoint Wednesday to be the day upon which all shops in the said district shall be closed as provided by that Act.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Labour.

Regulations for Adjustment of Compasses.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 13th February, 1896.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 4. of “The Shipping and Seamen’s Act Amendment Act, 1895,” I, Joseph George Ward, the Minister having charge of the Marine Department, do hereby make the following regulations for licensing properly-qualified persons to be adjusters of compasses, prescribing the examination to be passed by applicants for such licenses, fixing the fees to be paid for the adjustment of compasses; and do hereby also make the following regulations for the adjustment of compasses and the transmission of deviations tables.

J. G. WARD.

REGULATIONS.

1. Licenses without Examination.—Subject in each instance to satisfactory evidence of good character, and to the payment of a fee of £1, any person shall be entitled to receive a license as an adjuster, without examination, who—
   (1.) Holds a license as an adjuster from the Board of Trade or any other Board or authority recognised by the Minister as satisfactory; or
   (2.) Holds a certificate as extra master in the mercantile marine, or a commission not lower than lieutenant or navigating-lieutenant in the Royal navy; or
   (3.) Gives satisfactory evidence that, being the holder of a certificate as master (other than extra master) or as mate in the mercantile marine, or of a commission lower than lieutenant or navigating-lieutenant in the Royal navy, he has passed the examination prescribed by the Board of Trade, or any other Board or authority as aforesaid, in the syllabus of the laws of the deviation of the compass in iron ships, and in the means of compensating or correcting it.

2. Licenses by Examination.—Any person who holds a certificate as master (other than extra master) or as mate in the mercantile marine, or who holds a commission lower than lieutenant or navigating-lieutenant in the Royal navy, shall be entitled to receive a license as an adjuster upon passing the hereinafter-mentioned examination in the syllabus of the laws of the deviation of the compasses of iron ships.

3. Examination, Fee, &c.—Any such person as last aforesaid who wishes to pass an examination in the syllabus of examination in the laws of the deviation of the compasses of iron ships, and in the means of compensating or correcting it, can be examined at Wellington upon filling up the usual form of application and paying to the Superintendent of the Mercantile Marine Office the fee of £1. The examination shall be conducted by the Principal Examiner of Masters and Mates, and shall be held at such time and place as he appoints. If the candidate passes the examination successfully a note to that effect will be duly made upon the certificate held by him.

No part of the above-mentioned fee will be returned.

4. License, Fee, &c.—Every application for a license as an adjuster shall be made in writing to the Secretary of the Marine Department.

Every applicant must submit, with his application, his certificate, and satisfactory evidence of good conduct and sobriety during the twelve months immediately preceding the date of his application.

5. A fee of £1 will be charged for a license, and must be paid before the license is issued.

6. The license will be issued by the Secretary of the Marine Department at Wellington in the form numbered 1 in the Schedule hereto, and it shall not be lawful for any person to act as an adjuster unless he holds such license.

7. The holder of a license as an adjuster shall have authority to examine, adjust, and compute the error of compasses, and transmit tables of such errors to the masters, owners, or agents of vessels of which the compasses have been examined and adjusted as herein required, and such licenses may at any time be suspended or cancelled by the Minister.

8. Adjustment of Compasses, Fees, &c.—The master, agent, or owner of any vessel requiring that the compasses of such ship shall be examined and adjusted under the provisions of “The Shipping and Seamen’s Act Amendment Act, 1895,” or any Act amending the same, shall make application for such examination and adjustment to the Collector of Customs at the port in which the vessel is lying.

9. Every such application shall be in writing, and shall state the date and time when such examination and adjustment is desired, and also the place where the vessel will be lying immediately prior to proceeding to the swinging-buoys or place of adjustment.

Every such application must be lodged at the Custom-house at least twenty-four hours before the time therein specified for the examination and adjustment of the compasses of any vessel.

10. The amount of adjustment fee shall be based according to the net registered tonnage, and as prescribed in the table of fees numbered 2 in the Schedule hereto.

11. A list of names of the adjusters shall be compiled by the Collector of Customs at each port, and the names shall be arranged on such list in the alphabetical order of the surnames of such adjusters; and on the receipt by the Collector of Customs of any application for the services of an adjuster he shall, by notice in writing under his hand, require the adjuster standing next in order for duty on such list to attend on board the vessel in respect of which application is made, and such adjuster shall, on his being so notified, proceed on board in such time as shall cause no delay to such vessel, and duly examine and adjust the compasses thereof in accordance with the regulations for the time being in force.

12. In the event of any adjuster not attending on board any vessel in respect of which he may have received the notice prescribed in clause 11 in these regulations, or should any adjuster be unable from any cause to comply with any direction given in accordance with these regulations, it shall be competent for the Collector of Customs, as hereinbefore provided, to notify the adjuster next in order for duty, and such adjuster shall proceed and perform the services as by these regulations required.

13. Any adjuster receiving a notice from the Collector of Customs to adjust the compasses of any vessel, and being unable to do so, shall immediately notify the Collector of Customs to such effect.

14. Every adjuster shall register with the Collector of Customs the address to which notices may be forwarded in conformity with these regulations; and any subsequent change in any such address shall be immediately reported to the Collector of Customs by the adjuster.

15. The adjusters shall be paid such fees or remuneration by the master, owner, or agent as may be from time to time approved of by the Minister.

16. The error of the standard compass must not exceed one point on any given compass point.

17. Periodical Adjustment.—The compasses of every foreign-going vessel and home-trade vessel, either steam-vessel or sailing-vessel, built wholly or partly of steel or iron, shall, at least once in every twelve months, be properly examined, repaired (if necessary), and adjusted, and their errors ascertained by an adjuster: Provided that should the compasses of any such vessel have been previously examined and adjusted at any port or place, not being within the limits of the Colony of New Zealand, by any person (being duly authorised for that purpose by a competent authority recognised as such by the Minister) within the said period of twelve months, the certificate of such person may be accepted by the Engineer Surveyor as sufficient evidence of the correctness of such compasses; and satisfactory evidence of such examination and adjustment, and of the good condition of such compasses, shall be produced by the master of any vessel on demand being made by the Engineer Surveyor.

18. Exemptions.—The foregoing regulations shall not apply to vessels plying within restricted limits which the Minister may by warrant under his hand exempt.

19. Certificate by Officers.—At the periodical survey of any vessel the compasses of which have been examined and adjusted as herein provided within the six months immediately preceding the date of such survey, a certificate, in the form numbered 3 in the Schedule hereto, shall be forwarded to the Engineer Surveyor, signed by the master and mate, one of whom at least must have made the previous, and is going to make the next, voyage in the vessel. If, however, such certificate cannot be so signed, then the compasses of such vessel shall be readjusted, the errors ascertained, and evi-