MAR. 5.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

31. APPLICATION OF BOARD OF TRADE REGULATIONS.

The appropriate regulations of the Board of Trade of the United Kingdom shall be deemed to be applicable to matters pertaining to the examination of engineers in the mercantile marine which are not covered by these rules.

CHAPTER II. - QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED FOR THIRD-CLASS, SECOND- AND FIRST-CLASS (ORDINARY AND MOTOR), AND EXTRA FIRST-CLASS CERTIFICATES OF COMPETENCY.

32. THIRD-CLASS ENGINEER.

(a) Age.

A candidate for a third-class engineer's certificate must be at least twenty years of age.

(b) Workshop Service.

A candidate should have served for a period of not less than five years as apprentice engineer at the making or repairing of steam or internal-combustion engines, or similar machinery, such as would be recognized as affording useful training for a marine engineer.

At least two and a half years of this period should have been devoted to fitting, erecting, or repairing such machinery, and the remaining two and a half years may have been spent on work of this nature or on work in other branches of the trade performed in connection with machinery of the nature indicated above, subject to the time allowances specified in section 42. Time spent at an approved technical school may be accepted in lieu of not more than two years of the latter period of workshop service, subject to the conditions specified in section 45. In the event of the total qualifying period of an applicant's apprenticeship, as computed by rule 42, being less than five years, the deficiency may be made up by service as journeyman on qualifying work. No time served before the age of fifteen will be accepted.

(c) Testimonial as to Character and Sobriety.

In addition to references to his workshop service a candidate must produce a testimonial as to character and sobriety covering a period of at least a year immediately prior to the date of his application to be examined.

33. THIRD-CLASS CERTIFICATE : SYLLABUS OF EXAMINATION.

A candidate for a third-class certificate is required—

(a) To be able to express himself in creditable English; and to possess sufficient knowledge of practical mathematics to enable him to work simple problems in mechanics, heat, and hydrostatics, and in other subjects related thereto:

(b) To be conversant with the use of logarithms; and to have a knowledge of elementary trigonometry, mensuration, and algebra, and the metric system:

(c) To possess a fair knowledge of the construction and management of the types of marine engines (steam and internal combustion) and boilers now adopted; and to understand the functions of each important part of the machinery:

(d) To understand the use and management of marine-boiler mountings and fittings; and to be familiar with the use of the ship's side valves usually fitted in way of the machinery spaces:

(e) To be able to explain the action of the slide valve; and to have a knowledge of the working of steam expansively:

(f) To understand the construction of force, bucket, and centrifugal pumps and the principles on which they act:

(g) To understand the construction and use of the meters commonly used by engineers on board ship, with special reference to the pressure gauge, thermometer, barometer, hydrometer, voltmeter, and ammeter, and also to have a knowledge of the principles governing their action:

(h) To have a knowledge of the nature and properties of the fuels and lubricants used in steam and motor vessels.

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