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cation in one of Her Majesty's vessels stationed in New Zealand in a capacity not lower than that of navigating sub-lieutenant.

4. The applicant must pass an examination before an Examiner of Masters and Mates in the following subjects:—
   (a.) In the colour test as prescribed in the regulations for the examination of masters and mates.
   (b.) Knowledge of the number, description, and characteristics of the New Zealand lights, and as to which of them are connected with the telegraph system of the colony.
   (c.) Knowledge of magnetic and true courses between all prominent headlands.
   (d.) Knowledge of dangers lying off the coasts, &c., and the anchorages, harbours of refuge, and roadsteads on the coasts.
   (e.) Knowledge of times of high water on the New Zealand coasts, the direction and set of the tides, ebb and flood, and of the currents.

5. The examinations shall be conducted by the Examiners of Masters and Mates at places where such Examiners are stationed.

General.

6. Every application for a colonial pilot's license shall be made in writing to the Secretary of the Marine Department.
7. Every applicant must submit, with his application, satisfactory evidence of his status and service, and also of good conduct and sobriety during the twelve months immediately preceding the date of his application.
8. A fee of £1 will be charged for each examination, half of which will be returned in case of failure to pass.
9. A fee of £2 will be charged on the first issue of a license.
10. The licenses shall be issued by the Secretary of the Marine Department at Wellington, and shall be in the form set forth in the Schedule hereto.
11. Every license shall continue in force for a term of twelve months only, but may be annually renewed on payment of a fee of 10s. for each annual renewal: Provided that if the renewal is not taken out within seven days after the expiration of the current term a fee of £2 will be charged, as in the case of a new license, in lieu of the ordinary renewal-fee of 10s., and the applicant may be required to produce a satisfactory certificate of good conduct and sobriety during the twelve months immediately preceding the date of his application for the renewal.
12. The renewal shall be by indorsement on the license of the following memorandum under the hand of the Secretary of the Marine Department:—
    “Renewed for a term of one year from the day of , 1 , being the day of the expiry of the previous term.
    Dated this day of , 1 . Secretary.”
13. All the provisions of “The Shipping and Seamen's Act, 1877,” relating to investigations under section 119 into alleged incompetency or misconduct, and to preliminary inquiries and formal investigations under sections 237 and 240, into shipping casualties, shall apply to colonial pilots as fully and effectively, to all intents and purposes, as to masters and mates.

SCHEDULE.

[Seal of Marine Department.]

License as Colonial Pilot.

Issued under “The Shipping and Seamen's Act Amendment Act, 1894.”

Pursuant to section 31 of “The Shipping and Seamen's Act Amendment Act, 1894,” A. B., of , born at , on the day of , 1 , is hereby licensed to be a colonial pilot whilst this license continues in force.

This license continues in force for twelve months only, and expires on the day of , 1 , but may be annually renewed.

This license is granted by examination [or, as the case may be, without examination].

, Secretary.

Marine Department, Wellington, , 1 .

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Rural Lands in the Wellington Land District open for Sale or Selection.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-thirty-sixth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the eighteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase or on lease in perpetuity, or, in respect of any land containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, be selected on lease in perpetuity only; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

Weighted with £26 for improvements.

The section is situated at the head of the Kaiwhata Stream. The access is from Masterton, which is about thirty miles distant via Tauерu and Brancepeth, by twenty miles formed and six miles cleared dray-road, the remainder surveyed only. The section comprises mostly hilly land, with about 20 acres flat. With the exception of about 52 acres which is grassed, and 100 acres of green bush, the land is mostly covered with low scrub, fern, with patches of light bush in gullies. The soil is mostly decomposed sandstone, good in places, but mostly poor and shallow on sandstone formation. The forest is medium, comprising rimu, birch, a few small totaras, with a thick undergrowth of konini, rangiora, akeake, &c. The section is well watered by a creek and Kaiwhata Stream. The elevation ranges from 1,000 ft. to 1,700 ft. above sea-level. The improvements comprise 52 acres grassed, valued at £26.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.