Aug. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3067

For Yachts.
Master ... ... ... £ s. d. 2 0 0

NOTE.—No abatement will be made in the fee charged
to a candidate for a certificate for foreign-going ships
in consequence of his possessing a master's, mate's, or
second mate's certificate for home-trade ships.

FIRST AID TO THE INJURED.

29. (1.) Every candidate for a certificate of competency of any grade will be required to produce a
    certificate from the St. John Ambulance Association,
    the St. Andrew's Ambulance Association, or the London County Council, to the effect that he has passed an examination in first aid to the injured.

(2.) The certificate must be an adult certificate—i.e.,
obtained by the candidate when sixteen years of age or
more—and the examination for it must have been passed
not more than three years before the date of the examination for the certificate of competency.

(3.) If a candidate does not possess such a certificate
of proficiency in first aid, he should apply, some time
before he wishes to sit for examination for a certificate
as master or mate, to the local secretary of the St. John
or St. Andrew's Ambulance Association, who will inform
him of the available facilities for the instruction and
examination of candidates in first aid.

(4.) Besides the courses of instruction which are provided on shore at the ports at which examinations for
certificates as master and mate are held in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, &c., courses of instruction
given by qualified surgeons on board merchant vessels
will be accepted by the St. John Ambulance Association
as qualifying the candidate for examination for their
certificate of proficiency in first aid, provided the surgeon certifies that he has followed the syllabus of instruction laid down by the association.

(5.) The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association will also accept instruction by a ship's surgeon on board ship as
qualifying a candidate for examination for their certificate of proficiency in first aid, provided their syllabus is followed. In this case the candidate must previously have enrolled, and obtained an attendance card,
by applying to the local secretary of the association, or
to the head office at 176 West Regent Street, Glasgow.

(6.) It will not be necessary for the candidate for a certificate as master or mate in all cases to produce the formal certificate of proficiency in first aid issued by the associations. In order to prevent delay in proceeding
with the examination for the certificate as master or mate, and in the issue of the certificate to successful candidates, the special mercantile marine linen certificate
issued by the St. John Ambulance Association and duly signed by the lecturer, the surgeon examiner, and the association's local representative, or, in Scotland, a certificate signed by the local examiner of the St. Andrew's Ambulance Association, to the effect that the candidate has passed the examination for a certificate of proficiency, may be accepted as showing that the candidate possesses the required knowledge of first aid.

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED FOR THE VARIOUS GRADES.

[NOTE.—These are shown in a tabular form in Appendix O.]

Certificates for Foreign-going Ships, or Ordinary Certificates.

30. A candidate for an ordinary certificate of any grade who has not previously held an ordinary certificate
    of a lower grade must prove that he has served twelve
    months in the foreign trade, or eighteen months in the home or coasting trade, in a square-rigged sailing-vessel.

31. Ordinary certificates will entitle the holders to go
    to sea as mates or masters of any vessel, sailing or steam.

32. SECOND MATE.—A candidate must be not less than seventeen years of age, and must have served four years at sea.

33. Examination in Navigation.—A candidate for a second mate's certificate will be required,—
    (a.) To write a legible hand and spell correctly. This
    will be tested by not less than a quarter of an hour's dictation.
    (b.) To write a short definition of various astronomical and other terms, and to draw a rough sketch or diagram to illustrate their meaning.
    (See Appendix C and par. 166.)
    (c.) To show a competent knowledge of the first five rules of arithmetic and the use of logarithms.
    (d.) To work a day's work complete, correcting the courses for leeway, deviation, and variation.
    (e.) To find the latitude by the meridian altitude of the sun.
    (f.) To work any practical problem in parallel sailing.
    (g.) To find the true course and distance from one given position to another by Mercator's method; also the compass course, the variation and deviation being given.
    (h.) To find the time of high water at a given port.
    (i.) To find the true amplitude of the sun, and the error of the compass therefrom; also the deviation, the variation being given.
    (j.) To find the longitude by chronometer from altitude of the sun by the usual methods, computing the daily rate of chronometer from errors observed when required; also to find the true azimuth of the sun, and the error of the compass; and the deviation, the variation being given.
    (k.) To find the true azimuth of the sun by the ‘‘time azimuth’’ tables; the error of the compass; also the deviation, the variation being given.
    (l.) To find on either a “true” or “magnetic” chart* or plan the course to steer and the distance from one given position to another; to find the ship’s position on the chart or plan from cross-bearings of two objects; to find the ship’s position from two bearings of the same or different objects, the course and distance run between taking the bearings being given; also, the distance of the ship from the object at the time of taking the second bearing; and to state what the small numbers and Roman numerals found on the chart indicate, and give a method of finding approximately the time of high water at any given place without the aid of the Admiralty or other tide-tables. (See Appendix G.) He will be examined orally in the following subjects:—
    (m.) The Morse and British movable semaphore alphabets, the International Code of Signals, and the British Signal Manual.
    (n.) The use and adjustments of the sextant, read off and on the arc, and the mode of finding the index error by both horizon and sun.
    (o.) The construction, use and principle of the barometer, thermometer, and hydrometer. Also the use and care of a chronometer.
    (p.) Weights and measures.

34. Examination in Seamanship.—He must understand and give satisfactory answers on the following subjects:—
    (a.) The standing and running rigging of ships.
    (b.) Bending, unbending, setting, reefing, taking in, and furling sail.
    (c.) Sending masts and yards up and down, &c.
    (d.) Management of a ship when under canvas.

• The short terms “true” and “magnetic” are used for brevity and convenience throughout the regulations to indicate charts which have compasses engraved upon them showing the true or magnetic points of the compass respectively.