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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47

Amending Rules for Examination of Masters and Mates.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 4th May, 1914.

WHEREAS by Warrant dated the 29th day of July, 1910,
and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 74, of
the 2nd day of the following month, rules were made govern-
ing the examination of candidates for certificates of com-
petency as masters and mates :

And whereas it is desired to amend the said regulations in
the manner hereinafter described :

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority conferred upon me by section 23 of the Shipping
and Seamen Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities
enabling me in that behalf, I do hereby make the following
regulations amending the hereinbefore - recited regulations ;
and I do hereby order that they shall come into force on the
1st day of June, 1914.

F. M. B. FISHER.

REGULATIONS.

REGULATION 6 is hereby amended by the insertion of the
words “in the foreign or home trade” after the word
“service” in the first line.

Regulations 11 to 13 inclusive are hereby revoked, and
the following regulations made in lieu thereof :-

SIGHT TESTS.

11. Every candidate for a certificate of competency must
    pass the prescribed sight tests before a certificate can be
    issued to him. If circumstances render it necessary for
    him to proceed with the examination in navigation and
    seamanship before undergoing the sight tests, he should be
    informed that the examination in navigation and seam-
    ship will be cancelled in the event of his failure to pass either
    of the sight tests.

(1.) Form Vision Test.—Every candidate for a certificate
must pass the form vision test. If he presents himself for
examination before 1st June, 1914, he will only be re-
quired to possess half normal vision—i.e., ability to read all
the letters correctly in the fifth line of the test sheet, using
both eyes together. A candidate who has obtained a certifi-
cate before that date will be allowed to obtain his higher
certificates on the same standard of vision.

Any candidate may, and every candidate presenting him-
self for examination for his first certificate on or after 1st
June, 1914, must pass a higher standard, viz., normal
vision, using both eyes or either eye separately.

Any candidate who has obtained his first certificate under
these conditions may obtain his higher certificates, provided
that he has normal vision, using both eyes or either eye
separately.

Detailed information with regard to the conduct of the
examination and the standards required is contained in
Appendix A.

(2.) Colour Vision Tests.—On and after the 1st day of
June, 1914, every candidate for a certificate of competency
of any grade must pass the colour vision test as prescribed
in these regulations in lieu of the colour vision test prescribed
in Appendix A of the hereinbefore-recited regulations. These
tests comprise a wool test and a lantern test, and full par-
ticulars with regard to the methods adopted are given in
Appendix A.

Every candidate must undergo the colour vision tests
on the first occasion on which he presents himself for ex-
amination for a certificate of competency; but if he then
passes he will not be required by the Marine Department
to undergo the colour vision tests on any subsequent occasion.
No person who holds a certificate of competency should be
allowed to be examined in colour vision.

(3.) A candidate who fails to pass the prescribed form
vision test may present himself for re-examination at inter-
vals of three months. A candidate who fails to pass the
colour vision test, or who is referred by the local Examiner
for further examination, is not allowed to be re-examined
locally. In the case of a candidate who is referred for further
examination the Marine Department will make arrangements
for a special examination, and it is also open to any candidate
who is adjudged to have failed in the local colour vision test
to appeal to the Department, who may, if it thinks fit, remit
the case to a special body of Examiners for decision.

The Marine Department will repay, at a rate which will
be notified to the candidate, the travelling-expenses of any
candidate who is referred for further examination, as well
as the travelling-expenses of any candidate who, having
appealed against local failure, is reported by the special
Examiners to have passed. No payment whatever will be
made towards the expenses of candidates who, upon their
own application, are examined by the special Examiners, and
are reported by them to have failed, unless the Marine De-
partment consider that the particular circumstances of the
case justify such payment.

The special examinations will be held in Auckland, Wel-
ington, Lyttelton (or Christchurch), and Dunedin.

When a candidate fails to pass the local colour vision test,
the Examiner will point out to him the conditions under
which he can appeal. Appeals are to be made through the
Examiner and forwarded to the Marine Department with
the Examiner’s remarks.

Only Examiners who have themselves passed the colour
vision tests are to undertake the local examinations.

The fee paid for examination for a certificate of competency
includes the fee of 2s. 6d. for examination in form and colour
vision, and if the candidate fails to pass those tests this fee
will, with the exception of 2s. 6d., be returned to him.

No additional fee will be charged to any candidate referred
by the local Examiner for special examination or for the
special examination allowed to a candidate who appeals
against failure locally. If, however, a candidate who has
been reported by the special Examiners as having failed is
still dissatisfied it will be open for him, if he so desires, to
present himself for a second special examination on payment
of a fee of five guineas, provided that he brings with him a
friend to witness the examination. This second examination
will, however, be entirely voluntary, and will form no part
of the Department’s examination for a certificate of com-
petency. The Marine Department will, however, give con-
sideration to the result of such examination in determining
whether a certificate shall be granted.

The sight tests are open to all persons serving, or intending
to serve, in the mercantile marine, and all such persons are
recommended to take the earliest opportunity of ascertaining
by means of these tests whether their vision is such as to
qualify them for service in that profession. Any such per-
son, if desirous of undergoing the tests, must make applica-
tion to the Superintendent of a Mercantile Marine Office on
the form Exn. 2B, and must pay a fee of 2s. 6d.

The fee will be payable on each occasion on which a candi-
date is examined.

Regulation 15 is amended by deleting the words “being
British subjects” in first line.

Paragraph 1 of Regulation 29 is hereby amended by the
deletion of the word “or” in the fourth line, and the inser-
tion of the words “the St. Patrick’s Ambulance Associa-
tion or other approved body” after the words “the London
County Council”; and paragraph 3 is amended by deleting
the words “the St. John or St. Andrew’s Ambulance Associa-
tion” and substituting therefor “one of the approved asso-
ciations.”

Clause (l) of Regulation 33 is hereby revoked, and the
following substituted in lieu thereof :-

(l.) To find on a chart or plan the course or courses to
steer and the distance or distances from one given
position to another; to find the ship’s position
together with the set and drift (if any) on the chart
or plan from cross-bearings of two objects; to find
the ship’s position from two bearings of the same
object, the course and distance run between taking
the bearings being given, making due allowance
for a given tide or current; also, the distance of
the ship from the object or any given position at
the time of taking the second bearing; and to
state what the small numbers and Roman numerals
found on a 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, page 112.

The following clauses are hereby added to Regulation 33 :-

(q.) The markings, signs, and abbreviations on Admiralty
charts or plans.

(r.) The general notices published in the Board of Trade
Summary of Notices to Mariners.

Clause (4) of Regulation 42 is hereby amended by the
insertion of the words “fifteen knots” for the words “sixteen
knots” in the sixth line thereof, and of the word “five” for
the word “six” in the eighth line thereof.

Regulation 66 (a) is amended by the addition of the words
“also to fix the ship’s position by horizontal angles, using a
station-pointer for plotting it on the chart or plan, &c.”

The following new regulation is inserted as Regulation
119A :-

119A. For all certificates of competency as master or mate
in the mercantile marine the qualifying service usually re-
quired is service performed in ordinary trading vessels. While
the regulations provide for the acceptance in part of certain
kinds of non-trading service (e.g., that performed in fishing-
boats, yachts, pilot-vessels, &c.), non-trading service not
specially provided for in the regulations cannot be accepted