582
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 24

if it is found that each applicant is equally entitled to a bonus, the amount will be divided in proportion to the quantities produced by each applicant, but in no case shall any bonus be paid until at least one hundred thousand pounds (100,000 lb.) of quicksilver has been produced in the aggregate.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

Notice of the Laying-off of a Road over Native Land in the Tongariro and Pihanga Survey Districts.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under the authority of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” that the road described in the Schedule hereto was, on the 14th October, 1897, duly taken and laid off through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by a warrant dated the 7th November, 1896.

SCHEDULE.

KETETAHI ROAD (TONGARIRO AND PIHANGA DISTRICTS).

As the said area is delineated upon the plan marked as above mentioned, and deposited in the District Office of the Lands and Survey Department at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above noted.

Dated this 1st day of April, 1898.

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister of Lands.

Notice of the Laying-off of a Road through Rangitanuku No. 1b, Section 1 and Section 2, Tapapa Survey District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by his Deputy, James Prendergast, under the authority of section 92 of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” that the road described in the Schedule hereto was, on the 29th December, 1897, duly taken and laid off through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by a warrant dated the 23rd August, 1897.

SCHEDULE.

As the said areas are delineated upon the plan marked as above mentioned, deposited in the District Office of the Lands and Survey Department at Auckland, in the Auckland Land District, and thereon coloured as above stated.

Dated this 4th day of April, 1898.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 21st October, 1897.

IN pursuance of regulations under “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886,” notice is hereby given that for the Senior Examination of January, 1899, the period of literature will be the reign of Queen Anne, and the special books will be Shakespeare’s “King Henry V.” and Lamb’s “Essays of Elia.”

W. C. WALKER,
Minister of Education.

Regulations for Examination of Masters and Mates.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 2nd April, 1898.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in me by the 24th and 25th sections of “The Shipping and Seamen’s Act, 1877,” I do hereby make the following regulations for the conduct of examinations of masters and mates, and as to the qualifications of candidates; and direct that the fees specified therein shall be paid to the Collectors of Customs at the ports where the applications to be examined are made. These regulations shall come into force on the 1st day of May next, and shall then supersede any rules or regulations heretofore existing, and affecting such examinations, qualifications, and fees.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister having Charge of Marine Department.

PRELIMINARY AND GENERAL.

1. In accordance with the provisions of section 28 of “The Shipping and Seamen’s Act, 1877,” and section 34 of “The Shipping and Seamen’s Act Amendment Act, 1894,” every foreign-going ship and every home-trade passenger-ship, when going to sea from any place in New Zealand, and every sea-going vessel of 20 tons net register not included in the above designations, must be provided with officers duly certified according to the following scale:—
   (a.) In any case with a duly-certificated master.
   (b.) If the ship is of 100 tons burden or upwards, with at least one officer besides the master holding a certificate not lower than that of only mate in the case of a foreign-going ship, or of mate in the case of a home-trade passenger-ship.
   (c.) If the ship is a foreign-going ship, and carries more than one mate, with at least the first and second mate duly certificated.

If any person, having been engaged as one of the above-mentioned officers without being duly certificated, or employs a person as an officer, in contravention of these sections, without ascertaining that the person so serving is duly certificated, the person shall be liable for each offence to a fine not exceeding £50.

2. Certificates of competency will be granted to those persons who pass the requisite examination and otherwise comply with the requisite conditions. For this purpose Examiners have been appointed, and arrangements have been made for holding examinations. The time and places at which these examinations are held are shown in Appendix B.

3. Candidates for examination must fill up a form of application (Form Exn. 2) at a Mercantile Marine Office (Customhouse). The form, properly filled in, together with the candidate’s testimonials and discharges, must be lodged with the local Examiner not later than the day before the day of examination, and the candidate must conform to any regulations in this respect which may be laid down by the Marine Department. As discharges and testimonials may require verification, it is desirable that they should be handed in, together with the form of application, as many days as possible before the date of the examination which the candidate desires to attend. In the absence of the necessary verification the candidate cannot be examined.

4. In cases where the services of a candidate require verification, or where he is in doubt whether his service complies with the regulations and wishes to submit his case for special consideration, all certificates, discharges, and testimonials, together with the form of application,† properly filled in, should be submitted to the Examiner of Masters and Mates or to the Superintendent of the Mercantile Marine. If necessary, the officer will, after seeing that all the required information is clearly set forth in the papers, forward them, with his observations, to the Marine Department, who will deal with the case.

5. All other inquiries regarding examinations should be made and dealt with in the same way. The point on which information is sought should be clearly stated, and certificates, discharges, testimonials, &c., should be forwarded when they are material to the inquiry.

6. Services which cannot be verified by proper entries in the articles of the ships in which the candidates have served cannot be counted. For instance, a man may state that his service has been as second or only mate, and to support his assertion may produce a certificate of discharge or of employment from the master, to the effect that he served as mate, when on reference to the articles it appears that he has actually been rated as boatswain: the service in such a case will not be regarded as having been in the capacity of mate.

• By a “home-trade passenger-ship” is meant one which is employed in carrying passengers on the coasts of New Zealand, but not to or from the Chatham Islands, the Auckland Islands, or Campbell Island. By a “foreign-going ship” is meant every ship not included in the term “home-trade ship.”

† Form Exn. 2, which can be obtained at any Mercantile Marine Office.