bers may at any monthly or special meeting appoint a
Chairman.
8. All questions shall be determined by the majority of
votes of the members of the Board present at a meeting.
And with the like advice and consent as aforesaid doth
hereby also order that this delegation shall take effect in
respect of the parcels of Crown land described in the Sche-
dule hereto.
SCHEDULE.
All that parcel of land in the Parish of Hautapu, Cam-
bridge Survey District, Auckland Land District, known as
the Cambridge East Town Belt, and comprising all the land
lying between the granted boundaries of Rural Sections
Nos. 161, 1, 18, 184, 195, 196, 209, 210, 215, 216, 230, and 235,
Parish of Hautapu, and the sections comprised in the Town
of Cambridge East proper, containing 426 acres, more or
less.
Also, all that parcel of land, containing by admeasurement
41 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Lot No. 576 of the Town
of Cambridge East, Parish of Hautapu, Cambridge Survey
District, Auckland Land District.
Also, all that parcel of land, containing by admeasurement
5 acres 1 rood 17 perches, more or less, known as Allot-
ments Nos. 359, 360, 361, 361A, 367, and 581 of the Town of
Cambridge East, Cambridge Survey District, Auckland
Land District.
Also, all that parcel of land in the Auckland Land Dis-
trict, being Allotment No. 578 of the Town of Cambridge
East, and containing by admeasurement 1 acre 3 roods
8 perches, more or less.
Also, all that parcel of land in the Auckland Land Dis-
trict, being Allotment No. 579 of the Town of Cambridge
East, and containing by admeasurement 2 acres and 30
perches, more or less.
Also, all that parcel of land in the Auckland Land Dis-
trict, being Allotments Nos. 363, 363A, 364, 365, 366, and 368
of the Town of Cambridge East, containing by admeasure-
ment 6 acres 1 rood 36 perches, more or less.
Also, all that parcel of land in the Auckland Land Dis-
trict, being Allotment No. 370 of the Town of Cambridge
East, containing by admeasurement 3 roods 36 perches.
As the several parcels of land are delineated on the official
maps deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland.
ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Rules for the Classification of Ships and as to Life-saving
Appliances for Ships.
RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixth day
of July, 1903.
Present:
His Excellency THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS it is enacted by section twenty 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 mentioned in the Second Schedule of that Act:
And whereas it is desirable to make rules for arranging
ships into classes, and for defining the boats, rafts, or other
appliances for saving life to be carried by ships of each class,
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, and doth order that such rules shall come
and be in force on and after the first day of October, one
thousand nine hundred and three, and shall then take the
place of the rules heretofore in force.
SCHEDULE.
RULES AND TABLE FOR SHIPS OF DIVISION A, CLASS 1.
Division A, Class 1, consists of Steamships carrying Emi-
grant Passengers subject to all the Provisions of the
Imperial Merchant Shipping Act relating to Emigrant
Ships.
(a.) Ships of this class 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 (here-
inafter referred to as "the table"); such boats shall be
equipped in the manner required by, and shall be of the
description defined in, the General Rules hereinafter set
forth.
(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
table, shall be boats of Section A or Section B of the General
Rules. The remaining 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.
RULES FOR SHIPS OF DIVISION A, CLASS 2.
Class 2 consists of Foreign-going Steamships having Certi-
ficates 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.
RULES FOR SHIPS OF DIVISION A, CLASS 3.
Class 3 consists of 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 Kermadec Islands,
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 Sea-
men'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-
main ing 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