Superintendent’s Office,
Southland,
31st December 1861.

THE following Harbour Regulations, being those which are now in force within the Province of Southland, are republished for general information.

J. A. R. Menzies,
Superintendent.

At the Government House, at Auckland,
the 21st day of February 1861.

Present,
His Excellency the Governor,
The Attorney General, Mr Tancred,
The Colonial Treasurer.

WHEREAS by the Harbour Regulations Ordinance, No. 16 of Session 2, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to make all such Regulations respecting Pilots and Pilotage, Quarantine and Harbours, as in the said Ordinance provided:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby make the following Regulations for the Ports and Harbours in the Province of Otago.

F. G. STEWART.

REGULATIONS
FOR THE
PORTS AND HARBOURS OF
SOUTHLAND.

Pilots and Masters of Vessels.

1. No person shall be deemed a Pilot unless he be duly licensed by His Excellency the Governor.

2. All persons so licensed shall be provided with a License according to the form following:

Pilot’s License.

By virtue of the power vested in me, you are hereby authorised and directed to act as Pilot for the Port of ................, and you are enjoined to use your best skill and knowledge in all matters appertaining to that office, strictly conforming to the Regulations of the Harbour aforesaid, and obeying such orders and instructions as you may from time to time receive from me.

Given under my hand, this ...... day of ...... 18.., at the Government House, at Auckland, New Zealand.

3. Every Pilot shall carry his License with him, and shall produce it to the Master of any ship or vessel on its being demanded, or forfeit a sum not exceeding forty shillings.

4. The Master of any vessel employing other than a duly licensed pilot, if such shall have offered his services, shall forfeit the amount of pilotage.

5. Pilots are not bound to conduct any vessel to sea until the payment of pilotage has been satisfactorily secured.

6. Every Pilot detained on board a vessel longer than forty-eight hours, whether by stress of weather, quarantine, or otherwise, is to be paid eight shillings per day in addition to the regular pilotage.

7. The Master of any vessel requiring a Pilot to conduct her to sea, must make an application in writing, at least twenty-four hours previously, at the office of the Harbour Master.

8. Any Master who shall make such application for a Pilot to take his vessel to sea, and shall not, within twelve hours after the arrival of the Pilot on board such vessel, proceed to sea, shall forfeit and pay a sum at the rate of one pound per day for every day such Pilot may be detained on board such vessel, in addition to the regular pilotage, and the Pilot shall not be compellable to take such vessel to sea until such forfeiture and pilotage shall have been satisfactorily secured: Provided that no penalty or penalties under this regulation shall accumulate to a larger sum than twenty pounds.

9. Pilots refusing or neglecting their duty are to forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty pounds.

10. All vessels trading to or from the neighbouring colonies shall, upon the Master proving himself qualified, be furnished with a certificate of exemption from pilotage, but shall, in lieu thereof, pay one full pilotage inwards and outwards per annum.

11. The rate of pilotage into or out of harbour, from or to the distance of one league from the Pilot Station, is threepence per register ton, ten shillings per mile for every mile beyond one league from the Pilot Station, and twenty-one shillings upon each occasion that a vessel is shifted from one part of the harbour to another.

12. The Master of any vessel neglecting to heave to and take on board the first duly licensed Pilot who shall offer his services, or refusing to accept of his services when offered, shall be liable to the same amount of pilotage as if the services of such Pilot had been accepted, unless the Master of such vessel is provided with a certificate of exemption (which may be granted by the Governor of the Colony, or by the Superintendent of the Province) and shall have flown the exemption flag at the main from the time of his approaching within two leagues of any harbour in the Province, such exemption flag to consist of not less than six breadths of white bunting.

General Rules and Regulations.

13. The Master of every vessel shall anchor or moor where the Harbour Master or Pilot may direct, and he shall not unmoor or quit the anchorage until notice be given in writing at the Harbour Master’s office; and any Master offending against this regulation shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds.

14. All vessels must have buoys and buoy ropes to their anchors to show their position; and must hoist a conspicuous light at their peak end, and keep the same burning from sunset to sunrise, or forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds.

15. All vessels moored or at anchor are to have both cables clear, and in readiness to slack away when required, and any Master offending against this regulation shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds.

16. Pilots shall not be bound to take vessels to sea on Sunday.

17. Any person who shall board any vessel arriving from a foreign port, before such vessel shall have been boarded by some person duly authorised in that behalf, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

18. No timber or any other article shall be left on any public jetty, wharf, or landing-place, or the approach thereto, for a longer period than six hours, and any person offending against this regulation shall incur a penalty not exceeding ten pounds; and it shall be lawful for any person to remove the same.