Wellington Provincial Gazette – 1860 – No. 27

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✨ Harbour Regulations



NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.)

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT, PROVINCIAL SECRETARY.

VOL. VIII.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1860. [No. 27

At the Government House, at Auckland,
the 5th day of December, 1858.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council,

WHEREAS by the Harbour Regulations Ordinance, No. 15, 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 of his Executive Council, doth hereby make the following Regulations for the Port and Harbour of Wellington.

F. G. STEWARD.

HARBOUR REGULATIONS.

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 licence according to the form hereto annexed.

  3. Every Pilot shall carry his licence with him, and shall produce it to the Master of any Ship or Vessel on its being demanded.

    Every Pilot who refuses or neglects so to do, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding forty shillings, or forfeit a sum not exceeding forty shillings.

  4. The rates of pilotage into or out of the Port of Wellington, from or to the distance of one league from the Pilot Station, are as follows, viz.:

    • Vessels under 200 tons, 4d. per ton
    • Ditto 200 to 300 tons, 3½d. "
    • Ditto 300 to 400 tons, 3d. "
    • Ditto 400 to 600 tons, 2½d. "
    • Ditto 600 and upwards, 2d. "

    But no pilotage is to be chargeable on any vessel engaged in the Coasting trade, unless the assistance of a Pilot be required by the Master of the Vessel.

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

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

  7. Pilots on being appointed to outward bound Vessels, before taking charge, are to ascertain that their decks are clear, and that they are sufficiently manned, and in a proper state for working as regards masts, rigging, sails, and anchors.

  8. Every Pilot detained on board a Vessel longer than forty-eight hours, whether by stress of weather, quarantine, or otherwise,



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🏗️ Harbour Regulations for Wellington

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5 December 1858
Pilots, Pilotage, Harbour Regulations, Wellington, Port
  • F. G. Steward