109. In addition to the above, every Pilot Station is to be provided with a set of Marryat’s signal flags, which will be used as required.

110. Night signals for open roadsteads, &c.:—

(a.) From Shore.

A boat will come off—Two white lights vertical (as to a steamer coming in.)

Boat cannot put off—Two lights vertical, upper red, lower white.

Wait till daylight, boat will put off then, weather permitting—Two lights vertical, upper white, lower red.

Keep to sea—put to sea—Two white lights horizontal with a red light between them (to be used for vessels approaching or at anchor.)

(b.) From Vessel.

Will wait till daylight—Two lights vertical, upper white, lower red.

Cannot wait—Two lights vertical, upper red, lower white.

Cannot keep to sea—cannot put to sea—Two white lights horizontal with a green light between them.

Waterman’s Signal.

111. A ball will be exhibited on a staff in some conspicuous place near the usual landing to signify when bad weather fares may be charged as per local regulations.

QUARANTINE REGULATIONS.

112. There shall for every port be a Health Officer, who shall from time to time be appointed and be removable by the Superintendent.

113. There shall for every Port be a Board of Health, which shall consist of the Resident Magistrate of the Port, one or more Justices of the Peace, to be appointed by the Superintendent, the principal Officer of Customs at the Port, the Health Officer at the Port, and, if the Health Officer be not a medical practitioner, one or more legally qualified medical practitioners, to be appointed by the Superintendent. The Resident Magistrate shall be Chairman of the Board.

114. It shall be lawful for the Superintendent, upon the recommendation of the Board of Health, to appoint any station or place within any port or harbour for the performance of quarantine, where all vessels liable to quarantine, and the crews, passengers, and other persons on board thereof shall perform the same, and also, if necessary, to appoint lazarets and other places where the crews, passengers, and other persons, and the goods, wares, and merchandise which shall or may be on board the said vessels shall and may be detained, landed, and kept for the performance of quarantine. Provided that any quarantine ground or lazaret, heretofore legally appointed by the Governor or by any Superintendent, shall be deemed to have been appointed under these regulations.

115. The master of any vessel arriving from any port in the Australian Colonies or New Zealand which may at any time, by a notice in the New Zealand Gazette, be duly declared an infected port, and the master of every vessel arriving from any port whatsoever not within the Australian Colonies or New Zealand, shall, on approaching any port in New Zealand, cause the Health Officer’s flag (No. 8 of Marryat’s code), to be hoisted at the mast or mainmast head of the said vessel, and shall keep the same flying until she has been communicated with by the Harbour Master, Pilot, or other officer of the port, after which, if the vessel be considered clean, the said flag may be hauled down. If any such vessel shall call at more than one New Zealand port the flag herein prescribed shall be hoisted on arrival at each port.

116. Should it be considered necessary by the Harbour Master, Pilot, or other officer as aforesaid, that such vessel shall be visited by the Health Officer, the master shall, on being directed so to do, cause the vessel to be anchored in the quarantine ground appointed for the harbour, and shall hoist the quarantine (or yellow) flag as hereinafter appointed.

117. The master of every vessel so anchored is to deliver to the Harbour Master, Pilot, or other person duly authorized by the Superintendent to receive the same, his bill of health, manifest, log book, and journal, and he is to fill up a report in the form and manner pointed out in the Schedule annexed.

118. No person shall go on board any vessel whilst the yellow quarantine flag is flying, and before she has been visited by the Health Officer, and if any person shall offend against this regulation he shall, in addition to other penalties which he may thereby incur, be liable to be compelled to remain on board or in the lazaret until the vessel or her passengers and crew be duly admitted to pratique, should they be thereafter placed in quarantine; and no person shall assist any one on board to leave such vessel or in any way assist to remove any goods, packages, or baggage soever, before such vessel has been duly visited by the Health Officer.

119. The Health Officer shall immediately visit any vessel which has hoisted the yellow flag, and has been brought up in the quarantine ground, and if he shall find that any sickness of an infectious or contagious nature exists or shall then recently have existed on board of her, he shall declare the vessel to be in quarantine, and shall submit full information in regard thereto to the Board of Health. But should he be satisfied that the sickness is not of a contagious nature he may authorize the hauling down of the yellow flag, and the removal of the vessel to the ordinary mooring ground.

120. The master of every vessel in quarantine is to hoist at the main a yellow flag...