1672
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 52

may be accepted as sea service for the purpose of qualifying a candidate for a second mate’s, mate’s, or master’s certificate for home-trade ships.

Service performed in War Department vessels employed outside partially smooth-water limits (see para. 127) may be accepted as sea service to qualify a candidate for a mate’s or master’s certificate for home-trade ships only. This service cannot be accepted towards qualifying a candidate for a foreign-going certificate unless there should be some very exceptional circumstances, when the case, together with all the candidate’s papers, should be submitted to the Principal Examiner for consideration.

125. Service in Dredges.—Service in steam hopper-barges may, subject to the provisions of para. 127, be allowed to count towards qualifying a candidate for a second mate’s or mate’s certificate of competency for home-trade ships, provided the candidate can prove at least two years’ service in an ordinary trading-vessel in either the home, coasting, or foreign trade. Service in these steam-hoppers will not be accepted as officer’s service towards qualifying a candidate for a master’s certificate.

126. Service in Lightships or Engine-room.—Service in lightships or in an engine-room will not be accepted as sea service.

127. Service on Rivers.—Service performed on rivers, no matter of what size, and service performed within restricted limits will not be accepted, with the exception mentioned in note of para. 65.

Where any doubt whatever exists on this point the candidate will be required to produce a certificate from the master or owner of the vessel in which the service was performed before the service can be accepted.

128. Service in Training-ships. —Half the time served on board a training-ship will be allowed to count as service at sea up to a limit of one year (i.e., no length of service will be allowed to count as more than one year at sea), provided that the candidate can produce a certificate from the committee or Captain Superintendent that he has conducted himself creditably, and passed a good examination in seamanship so far as it is practised in the training-ship, as well as in other matters down to the time of his leaving the ship. Training-ship service will not be regarded as equivalent to service in square-rigged vessels.

129. Schools for Nautical Training. —Time spent at a school for nautical training conducted on premises ashore may be allowed to count in some proportion, not exceeding one-half, as service at sea, provided that—

(a.) The school is in receipt of a grant from the Board of Education under the Regulations for Schools of Nautical Training

(b.) After an inspection by one of their officers the Marine Department is satisfied that the school gives a training that justifies time spent there being reckoned as part of the necessary qualifying-time for a certificate of competency:

(c.) The candidate produces a satisfactory certificate as regards conduct and proficiency from the authorities of the school on leaving it.

The proportion in which time spent at a school conducted on premises ashore will be accepted as qualifying under the above provisions will be decided after inspection by one of the Marine Department’s officers, but time spent at the school will never be counted as equivalent to more than one-half of the same time spent at sea, nor will it in any circumstances be taken as equivalent to more than one year at sea.

130. Apprentices.—The whole of the time claimed under indentures of apprenticeship will be accepted as actual sea service to qualify under para. 30 for second mate’s certificate, provided—

(a) that the indentures have not been cancelled through some fault of the candidate, but are endorsed by the owner or master to whom he was bound to the effect that he has performed his service faithfully during the time he remained as apprentice; and (b) that the candidate had served at sea four-fifths of the time claimed—that is to say, has not spent more than one-fifth of the time in home ports.

In cases where an apprentice is qualified for examination before the expiration of his indentures—e.g., where he has had training-ship or other sea service prior to being bound which, together with his actual time as apprentice, makes up the required four years, or