July 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1701

certificate under these regulations may be issued without examination under Regulation 96 hereof: Provided that the Minister may require such applicant to be examined in accordance with these regulations, or to pass such modified examination as he deems necessary.

(2) For the issue of a certificate without examination as provided in this regulation a fee of 5s. shall be charged.

103. Subject to the provisions of Regulation 24, wireless signallers’ certificates issued under the provisions of the Wireless-telegraph Regulations for Ship Stations shall remain in force until 31st December, 1933, and until that date shall be deemed to be identical with the third-class radio-telegraph operator’s certificate issued in pursuance of these regulations.

104. In the mobile service persons holding a radio-telephone operator’s certificate may be employed only at stations transmitting exclusively by means of radio-telephony, and having an initial input power not exceeding 300 watts.

105. In the mobile service persons holding a third-class radio-telegraph operator’s certificate may be employed only at stations moving exclusively within New Zealand or, in the case of ships, exclusively in the New Zealand coastal service, and shall be authorized to operate ship stations licensed for restricted public correspondence only as provided in the next succeeding regulation, or for private correspondence only.

106. The exchange of correspondence with ship stations licensed for restricted correspondence only shall be strictly confined to the following classes:—

(a) Messages relating to matters of maritime urgency (including messages relating to accident or illness on board ship).

(b) Messages relating to the hours of arrival and/or departure of vessels.

(c) Messages relating to berthing arrangements.

(d) Messages relating to the working of cargo.

(e) Messages relating to the transfer of officers.

107. In the event of the conversion of a ship station from general to restricted correspondence, or vice versa, the license of the station shall be endorsed accordingly upon payment by the licensee of a fee of 5s., provided the appropriate license fee has been paid.

108. The license fee for a mobile station shall be £3 3s. for each year or part of a year ending on the 31st day of December, payable in advance: Provided that in the case of mobile stations which are not compulsorily equipped and which are confined to the classes of correspondence detailed in Regulation 106, or to private correspondence only, the fee shall be £2 2s.

109. In addition to the radio-telegraph ship-station license, as provided in Regulation 32, every ship station to which a license is issued in terms of these regulations shall, unless otherwise authorized by the Minister, be provided with the following documents:—

(1) A copy of the Radio Regulations, 1932.

(2) List of ship stations issued by the International Bureau of the Telegraph Union, Berne.

(3) List of land and fixed stations issued by the International Bureau of the Telegraph Union, Berne.

(4) List of aircraft stations issued by the International Bureau of the Telegraph Union, Berne.

(5) The International Radio-telegraph Convention.

(6) The telegraph tariffs of the countries for which the station most frequently accepts radio-telegrams.

(7) Certificate(s) of operator(s).

(8) A copy of the Shipping and Seamen Act Wireless Regulations.

(9) All amendments and supplements from time to time issued and in force of any of the above-mentioned documents.

110. (1) The licensee of a mobile station open for public correspondence shall keep full accounts, records, and registers of all messages transmitted by means of the licensed apparatus; and in such registers each of such messages shall be accompanied by its identifying number and date, and full particulars of its place of origin and of ultimate destination, and such further particulars as the Minister shall from time to time reasonably require to be shown. The licensee shall preserve all used message-forms written and printed, and transcripts of messages, and all other papers, for such period as is from time to time prescribed by the International Radio-telegraph Convention, and,

Period of validity of wireless signaller’s certificate.

Scope of radio-telephone operator’s certificate.

Scope of third-class radio-telegraph operator’s certificate.

Traffic restrictions on ships licensed for restricted correspondence.

Change of status of ship station.

Fees for mobile station licenses.

Documents to be carried by ship station.

Accounting.