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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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18. No master or person in charge of any ship shall within any harbour negligently or recklessly navigate such ship or cause it to be propelled at a speed or in a manner which, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, is or might be dangerous to the public generally or to any person or other ship or boat.

Dangers and Obstructions.

19. No person shall obstruct or impede the navigation of any harbour, channel, river, inlet, or creek, or obstruct any landing-place, by any vessel, cable, warp, or other article; and in case such obstruction or impediment be not removed when ordered by the Harbourmaster, he may cast off, cut, or remove any such obstruction at the risk and expense of the master or owner thereof.

20. If any balk of timber or other bulky article be in the water in any harbour, and if the owner of such timber or bulky article, or the person who placed, put, or threw such timber or bulky article in the water, or the master of the vessel from which such timber or other article may have fallen into the water, shall not clear the harbour of such timber or article, as the case may be, within such time as the Harbourmaster shall require by notice in writing, every such person shall be liable to a penalty for every period of twenty-four hours after the expiration of the time fixed in such notice that he shall permit such timber or article to remain unremoved.

21. No person shall place any tree, log, or other obstruction in any harbour or navigable river, or navigable lake, or on the shore or bank of any harbour, navigable river, or navigable lake, in such a position or manner as to cause, or be liable to cause, loss of life or injury to any person or damage to any vessels, or to impede navigation.

22. If any such obstruction exists at the time of the coming into force of these regulations it shall be the duty of the person who placed it where it is to remove it within fourteen days after notice in writing so to do from the Harbour Board, or, if the locality where the obstruction was placed is not within the jurisdiction of a Harbour Board, then from the Secretary of the Marine Department.

23. No person shall cast or deposit any rubbish or filth below high-water mark within any harbour, nor on any lands belonging to the Crown, except in such places as the Harbourmaster may in writing permit.

24. No person shall light or heat any pitch, tar, resin, or other combustible matter on board of any vessel while lying alongside or near any other vessel or wharf, nor shall any person fumigate or smoke any vessel for the extermination of vermin, without permission in writing from the Harbourmaster.

25. The master of every vessel shall use proper tarpaulins, or other approved appliances, in discharging or taking in ballast, coals, rubbish, gravel, earth, or filth of any kind, so as to prevent any part thereof falling into the harbour.

26. No person shall drown any animal in any harbour and leave the carcass therein, or throw a dead animal into the harbour, or place any dead animal below high-water mark therein.

Accidents and Collisions.

27. The master of every steamship navigating any narrow channel shall, whenever it is safe and practicable, keep to that side of the fairway or mid-channel which lies on the starboard hand of such steamship.

28. No master of any steamship shall attempt to cross any bar or negotiate any entrance to a breakwater harbour which has a confined channel should another ship, or a steamship having a ship in tow, be passing in or out at the time.

29. When steamships having ships in tow are steering opposite courses in a confined channel in a harbour, the master of each ship shall, before meeting, slacken speed, when practicable, until they have passed each other.

30. The master of every steamship shall at all times when under way have, in addition to the helmsman, a responsible person on the bridge in charge of the ship, and also a responsible