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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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(b.) He must be able to work out the capacity of bunkers,
tanks, area of flat surfaces, work done by simple
machines (such as lever, wedge, and screw) and
lever safety-valve; also questions relating to con-
sumption of stores and weight of materials.
(c.) He must understand the use and construction of the
salinometer, thermometer, hydrometer, and the
working of boilers with salt water.
(d.) He must explain the use of all cocks and valves on
boilers and connections generally on ship's side
and attached to engines.
(e.) He must understand the principle and construction
of feed, common, and auxiliary pumps.
(f.) He must explain the construction of boilers and
machinery used in simple, compound, triple, and
quadruple engines, how the steam does its work
in the engines, and the action of the slide and
link motion and single eccentric.
30. A third-class engineer's certificate will entitle the
holder to be engineer of any steamer authorised to ply
within restricted limits only, and having condensing or
high-pressure engines.
Qualification of candidate for second-class Engineer's Certificate.
31. Second-class Engineer.-A candidate for a second-class
engineer's certificate must be twenty-one years of age.
(a.) He must be possessed of or entitled to a third-class
engineer's certificate of competency, and have
served one year as engineer in the intercolonial or
foreign trade, or eighteen months in the home
trade in a capacity of not less than third or fourth
engineer, whilst in possession of a third-class
engineer's certificate, or a Minister's certificate of
exemption from examination.
(b.) He must be able to give a description of boilers, and
the methods of staying them, together with the
use and management of the different valves,
cocks, pipes, and connections.
(c.) He must understand how to correct defects from
accident, decay, &c., and the means of repairing
such defects.
(d.) He must understand the use of the barometer,
thermometer, and salinometer, and the principles
on which they are constructed.
(e.) He must state the causes, effects, and usual reme-
dies for incrustation and corrosion.
(f.) He must be able to state how a temporary or perma-
nent repair could be effected in case of derange-
ment of a part of the machinery, or a total
breakdown.
(g.) 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.
(h.) 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.
(i.) He must possess a creditable knowledge of the
prominent facts relating to combustion, heat, and
steam.
Qualification of candidate for first-class engineer's certificate.
32. First-class Engineer.-A candidate for a first-class
engineer's certificate must be twenty-two years of age.
33. 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 engi-
neer 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 engi-
neer 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.
(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 draw-
ing could be worked from.
(c.) He must also be able to take off and calculate indi-
cator 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 dia-
gram, and also the method of testing the fairness
of shafts, and of adjusting them.
(g.) He must be conversant with surface condensation,
superheating, and the working of steam expan-
sively.
(h.) His knowledge of arithmetic must include the
mensuration of superficies and solids and the
extraction of the square root, and the applica-
tion 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.
Fees to be paid by applicants for examination.-S. 133.
34. Candidates for examination, in making their applica-
tion on Form Exn. 3, will be required to pay the examina-
tion 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.
. The fee for examination must be paid to the Super-
intendent 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.
36. The fees are as follows:--
£ s. d.
Third-class engineer's certificate .. .. 1 0 0
Second-class engineer's certificate .. .. 1 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 compe-
tency, either granted by the Board of Trade or
by the Government of a British possession, and
recognised by the Board of Trade as valid in the
United Kingdom .. .. .. .. .. 1 0 0
In case of failure to pass the examination half the fee will
be returned.
GENERAL RULES AS TO EXAMINATIONS.
Candidates not to take books, &c., into examining-room.
37. 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.
38. 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 of the examination-papers.
39. 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 dimen-
sioned, and complete in the necessary views and sections, or
drawings to a scale. Drawing-boards and T-squares will be