21

number of men to perform any services required for the safety of such vessel, and the master or person in charge of any such vessel shall at all times in port, as well by day as by night, have at least one seaman in charge of the deck of such ship or vessel; and the person having such charge and all persons having the charge of or being on board of any boat within any port, shall answer to the challenge of the water police, or other duly authorised public officer. Exceptions—Vessels laid up, coal hulks, ballast or other lighters, are exempt from this regulation but so long only as they are lying within such limits as the Harbour Master may authorise such exempted vessels to occupy. Any master or other person in charge of any vessel who shall offend against this regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.

44. Masters requiring to careen, heave down, or haul their vessels on shore for the purpose of inspection or repairs, must apply to the Harbour Master of the port for permission.

45. Accidents involving personal injury, loss of life or property, or loss or collision of vessels or boats, are to be reported in writing by the person in charge to the nearest Harbour Master and principal officer of Customs, as soon as possible.

46. In the event of the death of any person on board of any vessel in port, the master of such vessel is to cause the body to be buried on shore, previously reporting the particulars to the police.

47. Any person drowning any animal in the harbour and leaving the carcase therein, or throwing a dead animal into the harbour, or placing any dead animal below high water mark therein, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds, and an additional penalty of one pound for every day during which any such animal remains in the harbour, or below high water mark, or unburied on the beach above high water mark: Provided that no such penalty and additional penalty shall together exceed the sum of twenty pounds for any one offence.

48. Any person removing shingle, stone, shells, or driftwood, or any part of the soil below high water mark, from any lands belonging to the Crown, without permission from the Harbour Master, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds; a rate of one shilling per ton may (at the discretion of the Superintendent) be charged for ballast removed by authority from within the limits of the harbour.

49. No rubbish or filth is to be landed or deposited on any land belonging to the Crown except in such places as the Harbour Master may point out, under a penalty of five pounds to be paid by the person landing or depositing such rubbish or filth.

50. No ballast, rubbish, gravel, earth, stones, earthenware, glass, or filth, is to be thrown overboard from any vessel or boat within any harbour, but is to be landed and placed where the Harbour Master may direct; and no gravel, earth stones, earthenware, glass bottles, filth, or rubbish, is to be placed by any other means at any place below high water mark within the harbour. Proper tarpaulins are to be used in discharging and taking in ballast, coals, rubbish, gravel, earth, or filth of any kind, so as to prevent any part thereof falling into the harbour. Any person who shall offend against any of the provisions of this regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.

51. No pitch, tar, resin, or other combustible matter, shall be lighted or heated on board of any vessel or boat while lying alongside or near any wharf or vessel in the harbour, nor shall any vessel be fumigated or smoked for the extermination of vermin, without permission in writing from the Harbour Master; and any person who shall offend against this regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, nor less than five pounds.

52. All complaints against any person connected with the Harbour Department must be made in writing to the Harbour Master.

IV.—WHARVES AND JETTIES.

53. The time allowed to vessels to occupy berths at quays, jetties or wharves, for the purpose of discharging cargo shall be (exclusive of Sundays and holidays, and the day of removal):

For ships under 100 tons ... 2 days
For ships from 100 to 150 tons ... 4 days
For ships from 150 to 200 tons ... 5 days
For ships from 200 to 250 tons ... 6 days
For ships from 250 to 300 tons ... 7 days

and so on at the rate of one day for every additional fifty tons register.

54. Ships discharging cargo at outside berths to be allowed two days for every one of the foregoing scale.

55. Cargo may, with the consent of the Harbour Master, be discharged from any ship lying outside, over and across the deck of any ship lying alongside of any quay. Vessels taking in cargo to have an unoccupied berth, which is to be given up when required for any other purpose by the Harbour Master.

56. Tame cattle or thoroughbred stock imported for breeding purposes, may be landed or shipped on or from any wharf or jetty, subject to the approval of the Harbour or Pier Master, whose permission in writing must first be obtained, and who shall fix the time at which they must be landed or shipped. All other descriptions of cattle must be landed at such places and times as the Superintendent or other person appointed by him for that purpose, may from time to time direct, and any person landing or shipping cattle or other stock from or into any vessel or boat, except in accordance with this regulation, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.

57. The master of any vessel arriving at any wharf or jetty connected with any