May 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1475

21. Subject to these regulations deck cargo and live-stock must be placed or stowed in such a manner that it will not impair the stability and safety of the ship, and will not interfere with the spaces which are to be kept clear or the general working of the ship.

22. Fresh meat, poultry in coops or baskets, fresh butter, eggs, fruit, and vegetables in baskets or wooden packages, and vehicles, such as drays, carts, carriages, agricultural implements, timber, acids, or any dangerous combustibles, are to be considered measurement cargo.

23. Intercolonial and home-trade steamships will be allowed to carry bar-iron and iron piping on deck, provided the quantity does not exceed 2 per cent. of the net registered tonnage, or one-quarter of the percentage allowed as deck measurement, whichever may be the less, and it is kept sufficiently far from the compasses as not to impair the efficiency of the latter. Such cargo shall be deducted from the total quantity of measurement deck cargo allowed to be carried.

24. Intercolonial and home-trade steamships shall only carry as dead-weight deck cargo one-quarter of the percentage allowed as measurement deck cargo,—which is to be deducted from the total carrying tonnage allowed on deck.

25. Dead-weight — which includes iron, copper, lead, tin, or manganese ores, or railway-iron, iron boilers, or machinery, or locomotives, and coal—is not to be carried on deck without a separate license marked “Dead-weight.” Such license shall be either general or special.

26. For the purpose of ascertaining the number of or quantity of live-stock, horses, bullocks, cows, sheep, or pigs a ship shall be allowed to carry on deck, it will be necessary to assume or reckon that each horse, bullock, or cow measures 2 tons or weighs 1 ton.

27. Live-stock on deck are to be secured in boxes, stalls, or pens according to the following scale: One horse one stall, and not more than four bullocks or cows in one stall; sheep shall be divided into lots not exceeding twenty-five in one enclosure; and proper arrangements are to be made for the housing, maintenance, and cleanliness of the animals, and for the stowage of their fodder.

28. The quantity of live-stock to be carried on deck by steamships or sailing-ships solely employed in carrying live-stock will be defined by the Marine Department.

29. The tops of the hatches, when secured or battened down, are available for measurement deck cargo.

30. The alley-ways are always to be kept clear of cargo and live-stock, and there shall be a clear passage of not less than 3 ft. wide fore and aft the ship either on one side or the other, or part on one side and part on the other.

31. There must be free access to the steps or ladders leading to the deck or decks where the life-saving appliances, boats, rafts, &c., are kept.

32. Boats other than the ship’s boats may be carried hanging in the boat-davits, provided they come up to the requirements of the regulation boats and are equipped accordingly.

33. No exception will be taken to not more than one-half the number of the ship’s boats being swung out and secured, and their places taken on the chocks by other boats not regulation boats or equipped boats.

34. Intercolonial and home-trade steamships shall not be allowed to carry coal on deck for their use without a license marked “Dead-weight.”

35. Sailing-ships will not be allowed to carry live-stock on deck when the amount of measurement deck cargo on board exceeds 5 per cent. of the net registered tonnage of the ship.

36. Intercolonial trading ships, either steamships or sailing-ships, with or without passengers, shall be considered home-trade ships when going from one port to another on the coast of New Zealand.

37. All deck cargo is to be lashed or secured, and this is to be done before the ship leaves the wharf or proceeds to sea.

38. Ships carrying deck cargo, or live-stock, or coal on deck for ship’s use, will not be allowed to proceed to sea with a heavy list, or before the coal on deck is properly stowed or secured.

39. Timber on deck shall be stowed and secured in such a manner that the weight of the deck cargo does not or will not bear on the bulwarks when the ship is at sea.