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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 74

where to attend to be examined. If the candidate fails to pass, his certificate will be at once returned to him.

104. If he passes, the report (Exn. 14) will be sent to the Marine Department with the certificate of competency, together with the Form Exn. 2; and the words “Certified to have passed in steam,” with the date and place of examination, will then be entered on the certificate and its counterpart, and the certificate will be sent to the Superintendent of the Mercantile Marine Office of the port named in the Form Exn. 2, and be delivered to the candidate in the usual manner.

105. If a candidate fails he may not present himself for re-examination until the expiration of three months from the date of failure.

106. The examination is for the most part viva voce, and extends to a general knowledge of the practical use and working of the steam-engine, and of the various valves, fittings, and pieces of machinery connected with it; and of the way in which electric lighting is carried out on board ship. Intricate theoretical questions on calculations of horse-power or areas of cylinders and valves, or any of the more difficult questions relating to steam-engines and boilers, will not be asked. The examination will, in fact, be confined to the duties which a master of a steam-vessel may be called upon to perform in the case of the death, incapacity, or delinquency of the engineer.

107. Examiners are to satisfy themselves that the candidates know the names and understand the uses of the various parts of engines and boilers, and their connecting-pipes, valves, cocks, &c. Practical knowledge, as distinguished from theories and abstruse calculations, is to be the test of the candidate’s fitness to have his certificate indorsed.

108. The Examiner should arrange to conduct part of the examination in the engine-room of a steamship, unless from circumstances he finds it impossible to do so; but, in the event of the candidate passing, the Examiner should state in writing what circumstances prevented a visit to an engine-room. If an opportunity offer, the candidate should be permitted, under the guidance of the Examiner, to start and stop the engine of some vessel which may have her steam up.

109. The Examiner, in sending in his report of the examination, should state where the examination has been held.

110. Candidates will be required to give written answers to sixteen out of twenty questions taken from a book of elementary questions published for the Marine Department.* These questions will be altered from time to time without notice. The twenty questions are not to be difficult, theoretical, or book questions, but are to be such as any man of ordinary capacity who has any practical knowledge of the use and working of the steam-engine ought to answer.

111. These questions, with the candidate’s answers, should be sent to the Marine Department, with the reports, after each examination.

112. If a candidate refers to any book, or paper, or memorandum, or obtains information from another candidate during the examination, he will be treated as having failed, will forfeit his fee, and will not be allowed to be re-examined for a period of three months.

113. The examiners will report, in the case of failure, the nature of the question or questions that decided the failure, or the point in the management of the engine in which the candidate was deficient.

114. There is nothing in the regulations requiring that applicants for the voluntary examination shall have served on board steamships; all that is required is that they shall have practical knowledge of the use and working of the steam-engine. Examiners will not fail
     to appreciate the fact that practical knowledge is best gained in the engine-room; and the examination of an officer who does not produce official evidence of service in steamships and of experience of engines must necessarily be more searching than in the case of one who produces evidence of such service and experience.

Certificates of Service.

115. A person who has attained the rank of lieutenant, sub-lieutenant, navigating lieutenant, or navigating sub-lieutenant in His Majesty’s Navy, or of lieutenant in His Majesty’s Indian Marine Service, is entitled to a certificate of service as master of a foreign-going ship without examination.

116. Applications for certificates of service must be made on the proper printed form, to be obtained free of charge from the Superintendent of any Mercantile Marine Office.

117. Applications for certificates of service by officers of the Royal Navy on the active list must be made through their commanding officers, and applications from officers who have retired from the Royal Navy or who are on half-pay must be made to the Secretary of the Admiralty, who in either case will forward the application to the Marine Department.

Ambulance Certificates and Government Awards.

118. An officer in the mercantile marine who holds a certificate of proficiency in first aid to the injured from the St. John or St. Andrew’s Ambulance Association, or some equivalent certificate, can have the fact indorsed on his certificate of competency, provided the latter was issued before the 1st January, 1909, if the two certificates are forwarded to the Secretary, Marine Department, either directly or through the Superintendent of a Mercantile Marine Office.

Recipients of Government awards can also have the fact stamped on their certificates of competency, if they submit evidence of the award, together with their certificate in a similar manner.

Rules for Estimating Sea-service.

119. In these regulations sea-service is reckoned from the commencement to the termination of the voyage. The certificate of discharge will generally be accepted as proof of sea-service. Superintendents and Examiners will be careful to see that these discharges have not been in any way tampered with, and will report any suspicious cases to the Marine Department.

120. For foreign-going certificates the term “sea-service” means, unless otherwise stated, service performed in foreign-going vessels.

121. For home-trade certificates service in the home or coasting trade or in extended river limits is regarded as equivalent to service in the foreign trade; but for foreign-going certificates it is regarded as only equivalent to two-thirds of the time served in the foreign trade.

122. By the word “certificate” is meant a certificate of competency granted by the Board of Trade under the Merchant Shipping Act or by the Government of a British possession under an Order in Council issued in pursuance of “The Merchant Shipping Act, 1894,” and under “The Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908.”

A list of the colonial certificates referred to will be found in Appendix S. They are of the same force as the corresponding certificates granted by the Board of Trade.

123. Where a foreign-going certificate is required in order to qualify a candidate for examination, the certificate may be either an ordinary certificate, or a certificate for fore-and-aft-rigged vessels, or a certificate for foreign-going steamships.

• Printed at the end of the regulations relating to the examination of engineers.