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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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APPENDIX O.
SEA SERVICE REQUIRED FOR THE VARIOUS GRADES.
TABLE SHOWING THE REQUIREMENTS AS TO SEA SERVICE NECESSARY TO QUALIFY FOR EXAMINATION FOR CERTIFICATES OF COMPETENCY.

Service in Square-rigged Sailing-vessels.

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.

Nature of Certificates.

Where foreign-going certificates are required to be held to qualify candidates for examination, they may be either the ordinary certificates, or those for fore-and-aft-rigged vessels or for foreign-going steamships.

ORDINARY CERTIFICATES FOR “FOREIGN-GOING” SHIPS.

Second mate 17 4 .. No officer’s services required .. None.
Only mate 19 5 .. No officer’s services required .. None.
First mate 19 5 1 Third or fourth mate in foreign trade in charge of watch Second mate (foreign-going).
1½ Only mate in home or coasting trade Second mate (foreign-going or home-trade mate).
1 Pilot with first-class pilot’s certificate None.
Master 21 6 1 Only mate in foreign trade Only mate (foreign-going).
1½ Only mate in home or coasting trade Only mate (foreign-going).
And in addition, unless the above service was performed with a first mate’s foreign-going certificate, he will also be required to prove one of the following services prescribed for that grade:
1 Third or fourth mate in foreign trade in charge of watch Second mate (foreign-going).
1½ Only mate in home or coasting trade Second mate (foreign-going) or home-trade mate.
1 Pilot with first-class pilot’s certificate None.
6½ 1 OR HE MUST HAVE SERVED Second mate in foreign trade .. First mate (foreign-going).
Provided that if this service as second mate was performed under an additional or auxiliary first mate, it will only be accepted if a third and fourth mate were also carried
And in addition
1½ Third or fourth mate in foreign trade in charge of watch Second mate (foreign-going).
9* 3 OR HE MUST HAVE SERVED Master in home or coasting trade Second mate (foreign-going) or master (home trade) for one year of such service.
1 Master in home or coasting trade Ditto.
3 Mate in home or coasting trade Same as master.
Extra master .. .. .. Same as master.

CERTIFICATES FOR “FOREIGN” FORE-AND-AFT-RIGGED VESSELS.

Second mate Same as for ordinary certificates; except that no service in square-rigged sailing-vessels is required.
Only mate
First mate
Master

CERTIFICATES FOR “FOREIGN-GOING” STEAMSHIPS.

Second mate Same as for foreign-going ships; except that the service as officer must have been performed in a steamship, and that no service in square-rigged sailing-vessels is required.
Only mate
First mate
Master
Extra master

• If all the service was in home or coasting trade.

CERTIFICATES FOR HOME-TRADE SHIPS.

Second mate 17 4 .. No officer’s service required .. None.
Mate 19 4 .. Only mate .. Mate (home trade), or second mate (foreign-going).
Master 20 5 1
Or
1½ Second mate in charge of watch Mate (home trade), or second mate (foreign-going).
Or
1 As pilot with first-class pilot’s certificate None.
1 As master of cargo-vessel Master of fishing-boat.
1 As master of a vessel of 50 tons or upwards Service certificate as master of vessel of 50 tons or upwards.
1½ As master of a vessel of under 50 tons Service certificate as master of vessel under 50 tons.

RIVER-STEAMER CERTIFICATE.

Master .. 21 1 Deck hand .. None.

RESTRICTED-LIMITS SAILING-VESSEL UP TO 25 TONS.

Master .. 21 4 One year of which in a somewhat similar class of sailing-vessel Deck hand .. None.

FISHING-BOAT OR CARGO-VESSEL UP TO 25 TONS REGISTER.

Master .. 21 4 One year in same class of vessel Deck hand .. None.

FISHING-BOAT UP TO 5 TONS REGISTER.

Master .. 19 One year .. Deck hand .. None.

APPENDIX P.
LIST OF MARKS OBTAINABLE IN THE EXTRA EXAMINATIONS.

(a.) Marks will be awarded according to the degree of precision with which a candidate does his work, no marks being given for any problem or work in which the candidate is wrong in principle.

(b.) An incorrect figure or incorrect formula will involve the loss of one-third of the marks allotted for the problem in question.

(c.) Marks, at the discretion of the Examiner, but not in any case to exceed fifty, will be given for orderly working and general method, &c.

(d.) Marks, at the discretion of the Examiner, but not in any case to exceed fifty, will be given for supplementary viva voce test on problems and written answers.

(e.) Thirty marks are allotted to each of the following “ordinary” problems. Only four will be set:—

Multiplication by logarithms.
Division by logarithms.
Day’s work.
Latitude by meridian altitude of sun.
Parallel sailing.
Mercator’s sailing.