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1907. NEW ZEALAND.

MARINE DEPARTMENT (ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1906-7).

Presented to both /louses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

My Lord,— Marine Department, Wellington, 31st July, 1907. 1 do myself the honour to transmit herewith, for Your Excellency's information, the report of the Marine Department of the colony for the financial year ended the 31st March last. I have, &c, J. A. Millar, Minister of Marine. His Excellency the Right Hon. Baron Plunket, Governor of New Zealand.

Sih,— Marine Department, Wellington, 25th May, 1907. I have the honour to make the following report on the work of this Department during the financial year ended the 31st March last. Engagement and Discharge of Seamen. —This work lias been carried out in a satisfactory manner at the various ports, and appended is a return showing the number of seamen engaged and discharged, and the fees received at the mercantile marine offices. The increase of work has necessitated the appointment of a clerk in the Dunedin office, and, owing to increased work, and to Captain Atwood, of the Auckland office, being appointed a Surveyor of Ships to enable him to attend to survey work, a clerk has been appointed in that office. Appended are returns showing the accidents to seamen, and the amounts paid to disabled seamen under section 119 of "The Shipping and Seamen Act, 1903." In order that there may be a record of accidents to persons other than seamen who are employed in connection with ships, the Superintendents of Mercantile Marine at the various ports have been instructed to report to this Department all that come under their notice, and the police have been instructed to advise the Superintendents of those of which they have knowledge. It is not at present compulsory on the employers of such persons to report these accidents to the Superintendents, and, in order that the record may be a complete one, it would be advisable to make it compulsory by makingprovision for it in the Bill which is being prepared to amend " The Shipping and Seamen Act 1903." Proceedings have been taken and fines imposed for breaches of the law relating to seamen in the following cases—viz., the master of the s.s. " Perthshire," the master of the s.s. " Ngunguru," the master of the s.s. " Rippingham Grange," the master of the s.s. "Tasman," and the master of the scow " Ngaru," for carrying seamen to sea without entering into an agreement with them. In a prosecution against the Union Steamship Company for employing two men on the " Wainui " without putting them on the articles a conviction was recorded, and the company was ordered to pay costs;, and in another case the master of the "Wainui" was fined for proceeding from Greymouth to Onehunga with one man short of the number required by the Act. The master of the s.s. ''Storm" was convicted and ordered to pay costs on a similar charge. A man named Robert Dixon attempted to ship at Auckland with a discharge which he had altered from ordinary to able seaman, and proceedings were taken against him for making the alteration, which resulted in his being convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. Examination of Masters and Mates. —The report of the Principal Examiner is appended hereto. For' certificates of competency 311 persons passed their examinations, and 137 failed. Of those who passed 175 were masters, mates, and engineers of sea-going ships; 64 were masters and engineers of steamships plying within restricted limits ; 5 were masters of fishing-boats and of cargo-boats up to 25 tons register ; 1 was master of a fishing-boat up to 5 tons register; 1 was master of a sailing-vessel plying within restricted limits; 20 were engineers of sea-going ships propelled by oil-engines; 40 were engineers of similar vessels plying within restricted limits; and 5 were marine engineers. Certificates of service have been granted to 387 masters and 22 engi-

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neers under section 27 of " The Shipping and Seamen Act, 1903," as amended by " The Shipping and Seamen Act Amendment Act, 1905." The time within which applications for these certificates could be made expired on the 18th July last, and therefore there will be no more of them issued. The regulations for the examination of masters and mates have been amended and consolidated, and the regulations for the examination of engineers are now under revision. Captain Atwood, Assistant Superintendent of Mercantile Marine at Auckland, has been appointed an Examiner of Masters and Mates to assist in the examination work at that port, and Captain Goertz has been appointed an Examiner of Masters of fishing-boats up to 5 tons register at Tauranga. There are a good many fishing-boats at that port, and this appointment will do away with the necessity of candidates having to go to Auckland for examination. It may be of interest to mention that one of the persons who obtained a certificate of competency during the year was a woman, Miss J. A. McKegg, of Henley, having passed the necessary examination, and obtained a certificate as engineer of a restricted-limit vessel propelled by gas, oil,-fluid, electricity, or other mechanical power than steam. This is the first instance in which the Department has granted a certificate to a woman. Tables showing the persons who have received certificates, and the classes and grades of the certificates, are appended. Registration of Shipping. —Appended are tables showing the vessels registered in New Zealand, and the number of men and boys employed in them. Survey of Ships.— Certificates have, during the year, been granted to 263 steamers, 52 oilengine vessels, and 14 intercolonial sailing-vessels. A return of such vessels is appended. As regards sailing-vessels, those engaged solely in the coastal trade are not subject to compulsory inspection, and I would again urge that the law should be altered to provide that all sailing-vessels shall be surveyed annually. This would tend to the safety of both life and property. Mr. Robert Duncan, who was previously Principal Engineer Surveyor, has been appointed Chief Surveyor of Ships under " The Shipping and Seamen Act, 1903," and it has been decided that the survey of the deck and deck equipments, &c, of steamers and sailing-ships which undergo periodical survey is to be carried out by the Superintendent of Mercantile Marine at Dunedin and by the Assistant Superintendents at Wellington and Auckland. The life-saving appliances rules have been amended to provide that it shall not be necessary to carry a lifeboat in the case of home-trade sailing-ships up to 100 tons gross, and steamers up to 200 tons gross which are employed in landing and shipping cargo on and from beaches and which carry a surf-boat properly equipped and provisioned. This alteration was necessary, as the vessels must carry surf-boats for their work, and it was found to be practically impossible for them to carry lifeboats as well. A further alteration has also been made, providing that fishing and trawling vessels which do not carry passengers need not carry a lifeboat if they carry an ordinary boat fit to carry all persons on board. Regulations have been made as to the equipments to be carried by home-trade sailing-ships and sailing-ships plying within restricted limits, and also to insure that sailing-ships bound to Australian ports shall carry sufficient provisions for the voyage. A warrant has been issued declaring that vessels propelled by oil, gas, fluid, electricity, or any mechanical power other than steam shall be subject to the provisions of the Act relating to steamships. It is sometimes found that there are flaws or other defects in the shafts of steamers which are not bad enough to require the shaft to be replaced by another. These can be watched by our Surveyors in the case of steamers trading within the colony, and in the case of those trading to oversea ports instructions have been given that Surveyors are to issue to the master a document setting forth the nature of the flaw, the method taken to repair it, and any conditions that should be observed at any port of call. This Department will, at the same time, be supplied with particulars, and advised of the vessel's destination, and of any intermediate ports of call in order that the authorities at these ports may be advised of the position to enable them to keep an eye on the shafts. Prosecutions have been instituted and fines imposed in the following cases—viz., the owner of the s.s. "Paiaka," for sending the vessel to sea without having her surveyed for a certificate: the owner of a launch at Hokianga, for not carrying life-belts ; the master of ihe s.s. " Rob Roy," for carrying sheep on deck without a license; the masters of the s.s. " Kopuru " and " Taiigihua," for going beyond the limits allowed by their certificates; the master of the schooner " Joseph Sims," for not furnishing a certificate that his vessel was ballasted, and the ballast stowed as required by the regulations; and the owners of the s.s. "Eagle" for carrying more passengers than allowed by her certificate. An inquiry was instiiuted under section 239 of "The Shipping and Seamen Act, 1903," into a charge made against the master of the s.s. " Squall " for a breach of subsection (4) of section 203 of the Act in not rendering assistance to the s.s. " Muritai " when the latter vessel was making distress-signals off Manukau Bar, but the case fell through because the " Squall " was not registered in New Zealand, and the Act only makes it an offence if the vessel which does not render assistance in such a case is registered in the colony. It would be advisable to alter the law so as to enable an inquiry to be held in the case of the master of any vessel who fails to render assistance to a vessel in distress. Deck-cargo. —The regulations have been amended as regards the quantity of cargo, especially timber, that may be carried on deck by sailing-vessels built for carrying large deck loads, and to enable home-trade steamships and steamships trading between New Zealand and the Chatham Islands to carry such a number of- live-stock on deck as a Surveyor, after inspection of the vessel, is satisfied may be carried with safety to the ship and the people on board. Billast. —Regulations have been made providing that the master of every British ship shall see that his vessel is properly ballasted, and that material likely to shift is secured by proper shifting-boards, and power is given to detain a ship which is improperly or insufficiently ballasted,

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Wool Fires Commission. —ln consequence of the occurrence of fires on ships loaded with wool and flax, a Commission was appointed in August last to inquire into and report on the cause of fires on ships whose cargo is wholly or partly composed of wool, flax, tow, or other combustible material. The Commission consisted of Dr. A. McArthur, Stipendiary Magistrate, Wellington, who was Chairman, and Mr. W. G. Foster and Captain H. S. Blackburne. The Commission made exhaustive inquiry and took a great deal of evidence in various parts of the colony, and its report has been received, and will be presented to Parliament. Coastal Dangers. —A vote was taken last session to establish a marine survey, and Commander Sinclair, R.1.M., of the Indian Marine Survey, was engaged for the work As he considered that the s.s. " Hinemoa " and " Tutanekai " were not suitable for the survey, application was made to the Admiralty for one of three naval sloops which were laid up at Hong Kong, but a reply was received expressing regret that there were no suitable vessels available. The only vessel in the colony which Commander Sinclair considered could be made suitable was the trainingship " Amokura," but as it would cost about £5,000 to make her fit, and as her use for the survey would have interfered with the training of boys for the sea, owing to there being no other suitable vessel for a training-ship available, the Government did not see its way to. allow her to be used for survey work. Under these circumstances it has been decided not to proceed with the establishment of the survey at present. The buoys marking coastal dangers have been overhauled and cleaned by the "Hinemoa," and are now in good condition. The W'igham light on Jackson's Head beacon went out on several occasions during the year, and the Department is now testing an acetylene-gas light to see whether it is reliable enough to justify its being substituted for the present light. The New Zealand Nautical Almanac was issued in December last, and has sold well. Its value is becoming so well known that booksellers in Australia now obtain copies for sale there. Wages and Effects of Deceased Seamen.— The estates of 52 seamen, amounting to £364 135., have been dealt with during the year, and the sum of £307 Is. 2d. has been paid to relatives and other claimants. A list of the estates is appended. Wrecks and Casualties. —Tables showing casualties to ships and an analysis thereof are attached. Those on the coasts of the colony numbered 90, representing 32,166 tons register, as compared with 55, of 29,601 tons register, in the previous year. The total wrecks within'the colony were 15, of 3,801 tons register, as compared with 6, of 1,686 tons, in the previous year. The total number of lives lost was 39, as compared with 22 last year. Of these 38 were within the colony—viz., " Ronga," 6; "Sir Henry," barquentine, 4; "Aotea," auxiliary schooner, 11 ; " Haeremai," scow, 5 ; " Rangi," scow, 1 ; "Sterling," s.s., 1 ; " Togo," s.s., 1;' " Akitio," oil-launch, 2; "Medora," J; "Waikonini," scow, 1; " Kotiti," s.s., 1; " Kahu," s.s., 1; " Kassa," scow, 1; "Tui," steam-launch, 1; and "Surrey," s.s., 1. The attached wreck chart shows where the casualties occurred. Weather and Meteorological Office. —The Meteorological Office, which had until then been connected with the Museum, was, on the Ist December last, amalgamated with the Weather Reporting Office, the work of both offices being placed under the control of Captain Edwin, with the Rev. Mr. Bates, who has been carrying on the meteorological work under the Museum Department, as his assistant. Weather forecasts are now sent to fishing ports, and are posted up for the information of fishermen. The question of issuing an evening weather forecast in addition to the morning forecast, and the publication of a monthly bulletin giving information as to rainfall and other meteorological information, is under consideration. This would involve an increase in the staff of the office, but I think that the benefit that would be derived from the publication of a second forecast and of such bulletin would justify the necessary expenditure. Government Steamers. —The "Hinemoa" has performed the work of attending to lighthouses and of overhauling and relaying buoys. She has also visited the Auckland, Campbell, Antipodes, Bounty, and Kermadec Islands to search for castaways, and to examine the depots of provisions and clothing. On her last northern trip a depot was built on the largest of the Three Kings, and a supply of provisions, &c, placed in it. A notice to mariners regarding its establishment and position has been published. The " Tutanekai " has been again placed under the control of this Department. In July last she made a search for the missing vessel " Haeremai," and was put into regular commission in October, since which time she has been employed on various services, including a trip to the Southern and Chatham Islands with the Governor, during which the depots for castaways were examined. A new oil-launch for her has been built by Logan Bros., of Auckland. A regulation has been made to govern the leave of absence to be granted to the masters and officers of the steamers, and an increase has been made in the remuneration of the deck officers, so as to give them the same rates as agreed upon between the Merchant Service Guild of Australasia and outside owners. Training-ship. —The Government having decided that the s.s. "Amokura," formerly H.M.S. ■■ Sparrow," which was purchased from the Admiralty for a training-ship, should be transferred from the Defence to this Department, this was done in February last, and the first boys were taken on board on the 12th March last. The first lot of boys selected numbered twenty-four, and these were all on board within a fortnight of the date the first one joined. Three of these have >ince left the ship. The ages of those on board are from 12 years 7 months to 15 years 11 months. Two are under 13$ years, five between 13$ and 14, one between 14 and 14$, seven between 14$ and 15, five between 15 and 15$, and one between 15$ and 16 years. The conduct of the boys is satisfactory ; they are willing and eager to learn, and are making good progress. There are at present four instructors on board, and the boys are taught everything necessary to qualify them to join the merchant service. They are also trained in the use of the rifle. His Excellency Admiral Sir Wilmot H. Fawkes visited the ship on the 7th instant, and inspected the boys and the arrangements on board.

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The vessel is rather small for a training-ship, as she will not accommodate more than about sixty boys. She is at present covered with awnings fore and aft, but even with these, when the weather is bad for several days, things become damp and remain so until the weather clears, as there is no proper drying-room. The want of a proper wash-house, a schoolroom, and a room in which boys could be isolated in case of sickness is much felt. It would, however, be difficult, if not impossible, to provide these conveniences owing to the size of the ship. Captain Hooper, R.N.R., is commander of the vessel, and it is proposed to appoint a chief officer and chief engineer shortly. The other officers and the seamen and firemen required to man the ship at sea will be employed when she is ready to go to sea. It is proposed that short trips shall be made after the winter, and when the boys, whose number will be considerablyincreased by that time, have had a little sea experience, it is intended to make longer trips, and visit other ports. Lighthouses—All the lighthouses have been maintained in an efficient manner. Ihey have been inspected by Captain Bollons when the "Hinemoa" called at them with oil and stores, and 1 have inspected'those at Cuvier Island, Bean Rock, Ponui Passage, Tiri Tiri, Moko Hmou, Cape Maria van Diemen, Kaipara, Manukau North and South Heads, Cape Egmont, Godley Head, Jack's Point, Nelson, and the leading-lights at Tory Channel. Considerable repairs have been found to be necessary to Ponui Passage tower, and these are now being carried out. A large landslip occurred at Cuvier Island in February last, burying part of the track, gardens, and fences, and injuring the outbuildings. Cape Egmont: New guttering. &c, has been put on the dwellinghouses. A new telephone has been put in the tower, and it has been decided to place the lighthouse in direct communication with New Plymouth after 5 p.m. Kaipara Head: The landing-store has been moved further back, a new cart and coal shed has been erected, and the telephone-line between the lighthouse and Pouto has been renewed. French Pass: A new boatshed has been erected. The beacon which marks the end of the reef opposite the lighthouse, and on which a light is shown, is in a bad condition, and should be rebuilt without delay. Cape Campbell: A new flagstaff has been erected. Akaroa Head: Telephones have been substituted for the electric bells between the tower and dwellings. Nugget Point: A contract has been let for the supply of timber for a new house. Dog Island: Telephones have been substituted for whistles between the tower and the dwellings. An incandescent burner has been installed at Pencarrow Head Lighthouse, which has greatly increased the power of the light on a less consumption of oil. A burner of this kind has been ordered for Stephens Island, and it would be advisable to make provision in this year's estimates for similar burners for some of the other lighthouses, as there is no doubt that they give a much better light, and enable a considerable saving to be made in the cost of oil. No new lighthouse has been erected since the completion of that at Kahurangi Point. To complete the proper lighting of the coasts of the colony several more will be required, and I recommend that provision for one should be made in this year's estimates. The North Cape, or Cape Brett, on the southern side of the Bay of Islands, appears to be the place where a light is most urgently required, as there is now no light between Cape Maria van Diemen and Moko Hinou. Of these two places I think the North Cape is the place where a light is most wanted. Owing to the impossibility of landing at Kahurangi Point when there is any sea on, the " Hinemoa " has often been delayed for some time when going there with oil and stores, and in order to obviate such delay, arrangements have been made for the small steamer which trades between Westport and Karainea to tender this lighthouse in future. Being near the place she can choose suitable weather for landing. During the year one lightkeeper lias retired on pension, one has retired on compensation for loss of office, one has been transferred to the harbour service, and five have resigned. Eight new appointments have been made. The amount of light dues collected during the year was £32,454 Is. 4d., as compared with £29,443 during the previous year. Attached is a statement showing the amount received at each port. Fog-signals. —The explosive signals at Pencarrow Head and Taiaroa Head have worked satisfactorily, but a good deal of repair has had to be made to the former. It has been decided to establish'signals at Godley Head and Cuvier Island, and the necessary apparatus, &c, has been ordered from England. That for Godley Head will be an automatic signal, similar to those at Pencarrow and Taiaroa Head, but the apparatus for Cuvier will be one for attachment to the tower, and each cartridge will be attached and fired by the keeper on wafch without his having to leave the tower. Harbours. —The harbours under the control of the Department have been worked in an efficient manner, and the buoys and beacons in them are in good order. Mr. W. A. Thorn, Clerk to the Court at Tauranga, who was appointed Harbourmaster at that place a few years ago to give him power to regulate the times and places of shipping and landing cargo, has resigned the latter position, as he has not time to perform certain other duties which it has become necessary should be carried out by the Harbourmaster, and Mr. A. F. Tunks has been appointed to the position. Mr. F. Edwards, Railway Manager, who was also Harbourmaster at Picton, having been moved from that place, the appointment of Harbourmaster has been conferred upon Mr. J. W. Jones, Railway Wharfinger.

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The s.s. " Hinemoa " has overhauled most of the buoys, and has rebuilt the beacons on StonyPoint, Tauranga. A new mooring-buoy has had to be laid down in Milford Sound, as the one which was there broke adrift, and it was not large enough for the deeper water in which it became necessary to moor the buoy. Tenders were invited for the removal of some rocks which impede the navigation of Helensville Creek, Kaipara, but those received were too high, and fresh tenders have been called for. Tenders were also invited for the erection of a beacon in Kaipara River. One was received, but as it was much above the estimated cost it was declined, and the work is now being carried out by the Public Works Department. The deposit of nightsoil into the Wairoa Itiver at Dargaville has been stopped. The master of the barque "Casablanca" was proceeded against and fined for going up the Wairoa River without hoisting the powder flag. Regulations for fixing places for the landing and shipping of explosives in the harbour are now being prepared. The removal of the rocks from Manukau Harbour a short distance below the wharf has enabled vessels to leave and reach the wharf earlier and later on the tides. It having been found that flax-mill refuse which was put into the Manawatu River from the mills was becoming an impediment to navigation by causing the formation of shoals in the river, action has been taken to prevent the mills allowing the refuse to go into the river in future. A general harbour regulation has been made providing that no person shall place any tree, log, orother obstruction in any harbour, or navigable river or lake, or on the shore or bank thereof, in such a position or maimer as to cause or be liable to cause loss of life or injury to any person, or damage to any vessel or to impede navigation. The necessity for this regulation arose through persons felling trees on the banks of navigable waters, and leaving them in such a position that a part of them extended over the banks. A return showing the plans of harbour-works approved by the Governor in Council, and of the licenses granted for the occupation of sites for wharves and other works is appended. The sum of £2,206 os. Bd. has been collected for pilotage and port charges in respect of harbours under the control of the Department, as compared with £2,000 Is. 3d. collected during the previous year. Proceedings were taken against a flax-miller for putting tow into the Taheke River, and he was fined £1 and costs. Fisheries. —The regulations relating to fish and oysters have been consolidated, which is of great advantage to fishermen and fishery officers. A return showing the number of fishing and oyster boats registered and licensed at the various ports at the end of December last is appended. It will be seen that the number registered was 1,106, and licensed 995. In the previous year there were 1,085 registered and 1,068 licensed. Parliament having last year voted the sum of £2,500 for experimental trawling, arrangements have been made with the New Zealand Trawling and Fish Company, of Napier, for a threemonths charter of the new trawler "Nora Niven " for the work. Mr. Ayson, Chief Inspector of Fisheries, will be on board the vessel, and will direct where the trawling is to be done. The vessel is provided with a refrigeratiug-chamber, which will enable the fish caught to be kept until she comes into port, when they will be sold by the owners of the vessel, as the Department has arranged for then* to take them at the market price. During last year the Department collected a large number of brown and rainbow trout ova for acclimatisation societies. The manufacture of fertilisers from fish is now carried on at three places in the colonyviz., Whangamumu, Matakana, and Moeraki. This branch of industry is an important one, and is deserving of every encouragement. It also leads to the destruction of large numbers of sharks, dog-fish, &c, which now infest some of the fishing-grounds, and which, up to recently, have been allowed to increase unmolested to the great destruction of market fish. The Chief Inspector recommends that a substantial bonus should be given on all fish fertilisers of a standard quality which are manufactured in the colony. - The question of allowing the sale of sea trout, which in some parts inhabit the coastal waters in large numbers, is one that requires consideration. These fish are plentiful along the east coast of the°South Island, from Pegasus Bay to Tewaewae Bay, south of the Bluff, and there is no question that they are taken by fishermen when netting for indigenous fish, and that they are illegallysold. With restrictions as to locality, season, and size their sale might be authorised without leading to river-fish being illegally sold. Seals. —The close season for seals has been extended up to the 30th June next year. The Chief Inspector of Fisheries reports that the fish-supply obtained from the local fishingorounds in the Wellington District during the year has not on the whole been equal to the supply in 1905-6, and that it appears that the quantity of blue-cod obtainable is decreasing year by year. A new cod-ground which was discovered in Cook Strait less than two years ago, and which yielded a large quantity of fine fish for a time, is now giving a decreasing quantity. This fish is the one which is in the greatest demand for export to Australia, where there is a ready market for more than can be supplied. Trawling is being carried on in a small way in Cloudy Bay by means of oil-launches. The steam trawler " Phantom," which worked in that bay for a considerable time, has gone to Napier. There has been no trawling in Blind Bay for a considerable time, and the Chief Inspector considers that it is a matter of surprise and regret that such a large extent of splendid trawling-ground with a daily steam-service to Wellington should not be utilised. The following is the substance of reports received from local Inspectors of Fisheries: — At the Bay of Islands there has been a fair supply of fish, except mullet. The principal kinds of fish taken have been tchnapper, flounders, crayfish, and garfish. The Inspector reports that mullet are decreasing every year, and recommends that there should be a close season for this fish. In 1905 there were four mullet-canning factories between the Bay of Islands and the North Cape, and there is now only one. Sharks have been very numerous and troublesome to

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fishermen. There are fifty-one fishing-boats belonging to the Bay of Islands, which employ 164 men. In the Auckland District the supply of fish has been generally equal to the demand. Schnapper have been plentiful—in fact, they have been so plentiful since October last that dealers have had to limit the quantities taken from fishermen. Flounders were equal to the demand last winter, and have been very abundant during the summer and autumn. Mullet have been very scarce. It would appear that the time has now arrived when there should be a close season for this fish. Kahawai, trevalli, and gurnard have been abundant. There is now a good deal of fishing done from Tauranga, and there is a fish-curing establishment at that place. There are five such establishments at Auckland, and one at Kawau Island. In Manukau Harbour the principal fish caught are schnapper, flounders, and mullet, of which there has been a fair supply. At Hokiauga the principal fish caught are schnapper, mullet, kahawai, flounder, whitebait, kingfish, rock-cod, and herring, but they have been scarce during the year. The Waterfall Canning Factory has closed down during the year owing to the scarcity of fish. There are thirteen smokehouses in the district, every licensed fisherman having one. Since the closing of the oysterbeds there has been a marked improvement. The young oysters are coming on well. In Kaipara Harbour mullet, flounders, and schnapper are caught, and they have been veryplentiful during the year, mullet especially so. There is a canning-factory at Batley and a smokehouse at Sail Point. There are twenty-four licensed fishing-boats in the harbour, and four oyster licenses were issued. The industry in llawke's Bay is in a flourishing condition. There are ten trawlers engaged in fishing, and they give employment to forty men. The industry appears to be in a languishing state in Canterbury. Two trawlers have been withdrawn from fishing, and the number of fishing-boats is decreasing. The principal places from which fish are obtained arc Kaikoura, Lyttelton, Akaroa, and Kaiapoi. There is one smokehouse each at Christchurch, Lyttelton, and Kaikoura. The Inspector at Dunedin reports that in all old-known fishing-places the catches have been good. In all shallow bays flounders and small fish are obtained in large quantities, and groper, kingfish. schnapper, barraoouta, blue and red cod, tarakihi, trevalli, and moki are found along the coast from Oamaru to Chaslands. The difficulty of transport is a great drawback to the industry in out-of-the-way- places. There are 140 boats employed in the district, 59 of which are propelled by oil-engines. There are 367 persons actually employed in fishing ; there are 37 retail shops, which give employment to 193 persons; 120 persons are employed in fish curing and preserving works, 105 in fish-supper rooms, and there are 73 fish-hawkers. All the fish freezing and preserving works have been inspected, and found to be clean and sanitary in every respect. An oil and manure works has been established at Moeraki, where fish-offal is treated in a scientific manner, with the result that an extensive trade is carried on with farmers and others. The oil obtained is used by manufacturing chemists, and for feeding young cattle. The principal fish caught on the Bluff fishing-grounds, which include Foveaux Strait, Stewart Island, Ruapuke, and other islands in the strait, is blue-cod, which are taken with hook and line, and flounders, which are netted in the harbours and bays. Sixty boats, a good many of which are fitted with oil-engines, arc engaged in fishing, and some of them have refrigerators. There are five fish-freezing plants on the mainland and on Stewart Island, and 6,329 cwt. of frozen fish, valued at £9,552, was exported during the year. Mr. J. Munro, of Whangarei, and several members of the Police Force in various parts of the colony have been appointed Inspectors of Fisheries, so as to give them the necessary power to enforce the provisions of the Sea-fisheries Acts and regulations. As poisonous fibres of wool, &c., from a woollen-mill were killing the fish in the Cam River, the Department required the company owning the mill to take steps to prevent the poisonous matter going into the river, and this has been done by putting strainers in the mouths of the drains. ■Imported Fish. —Another shipment of 500,000 quinnat-salmon ova and 2,000,000 whitefish ova has been obtained from the United States. Mr. Ayson. Chief Inspector of Fisheries, proceeded to San Francisco and brought the ova to the colony, and, considering the delay and difficulties which occurred on the voyage from San Francisco owing to the breakdown of the steamer, the shipment was very successful. Appended is a report on it by Mr. Ayson. Whilst in California Mr. Ayson endeavoured to obtain a shipment of young striped bass, but was not able to do so. Tt is, however, hoped that on a future occasion we shall be able to obtain a shipment of this valuable food fish. There appears to be no doubt that the introduction of salmon into the colony- has been successful. .\-< stated in my last year's report, quinnat salmon had been caught in the Waitaki River. This year fish which are undoubtedly quinnat salmon have been caught in the Hakataramea River, up which they arc going to spawn, and the Manager of the Salmon Station reports that he lias seen large numbers of them in the river. Fish which were believed to be sockeye salmon (Oneorhynchus nerka) were taken in Lake Ohau. Specimens were sent to Sir James Hector, who reports that they are without doubt young sea-run sockeye. A copy of his report is appended. Three hundred thousand sockeye ova were imported from Canada in 1902, half of which were hatched and liberated in the streams flowing info the head of Lake Ohau, and the other half were hatched at the Hakataramea Salmon Station and liberated in the Hakataramea and Auhiriri Rivers, tributaries of the Waitaki. During the year the following fish have been liberated from the ponds at Hakataramea—viz., 11 five-year-old sockeye; 7 four-year Atlantic, and 62 three-year, 21,281 two-year, and 224,647 one-year quinnat salmon. At the end of March there were in the ponds 50 four-year Atlantic salmon, and the following quinnat salmon: 169 three-year, 398 two-year, 19,793 one-year, and 476,027 fry. Since that date 290,000 quinnat fry have been liberated.

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So far the Department has no proof that the attempt to introduce the American whitefish has proved successful, but there have been reports that persons have seen strange fish in the lakes in which they were liberated. It would be advisable to net the lakes during this year to see whether the fish are in them. Portobello Marine Hatchery. —A report received from the Hatchery Board shows that during the year two shipments of live lobsters were received from England by the s.s. " Kaipara," but that they have been only a partial success. The Board, however, considering the experience gained warranted such a course, has arranged for another shipment by the same vessel. There are now nine lobsters alive and healthy in the ponds at the hatchery. The Board has been in correspondence, direct and through the High Commissioner, with various authorities in the United Kingdom on the subject of sea fish, their mode of propagation, transport, &c, and Dr. Allen, Scientific Superintendent at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Plymouth, and Dr. T. Wemyss Fulton, Scientific Superintendent to the Scottish Fisheries Board, are now engaged in making experiments in regard to the above matters in the interests of the Board. Several millions of ova of New Zealand food fishes, principally soles and flounders, have been fertilised and hatched out at the station and liberated in Otago Harbour. In connection with this, the Board states that it is under considerable obligation to Mr. F. J. Sullivan, who has allowed the members of the Board and the hatchery curator the use of his trawling steamers and appliances, without which very little could have been done in the way of obtaining deep-sea fish and their ova for observation. The station has three large salt-water ponds, a concrete tank holding 17,000 gallons, a suitable building containing hatchery, laboratory, aquarium, workshop, and other conveniences, a cottage for the curator, and a jetty. There is also a full supply of the most modern hatching-boxes, jars, and other scientific and practical appliances, together with means for filling, emptying, and aerating the ponds and tanks, and a very complete system of water-supply. The laboratory has been fitted with the necessary apparatus for making and recording observations. The High Commissioner in London having been requested to make inquiry as to the feasibility of introducing herring and one other kind of fish, either cod, haddock, or turbot, into the colony, he has arranged with the Fishery Board of Scotland for Professor T. Wemyss Fulton, its scientific Superintendent, to make experiments as to whether the development of herring ova can be retarded sufficiently long to enable them to be brought to the colony. If possible he will also arrange for similar experiments to be made with either cod, haddock, or turbot ova. Proceedings were taken against a person for trawling within prohibited limits outside Lyttelton, when he was convicted, but no fine was imposed. The Magistrate stated that if the defendant came before him again on a similar charge, and with a similar defence, which was that he was not trawling, but was running into the bay to lift the trawl net, he would, if the offence was proved, impose the full penalty. Six persons have been prosecuted for not painting the numbers of their boats on their mainsails. Five of them were convicted and fined, and one case was dismissed owing to there being insufficient evidence. Six persons have been fined for using set-nets in the Aparima River. Two persons have been fined for assaulting an Inspector of Fisheries, and two for stalling. Oysters. —The oyster-beds in the Auckland and Northern fisheries have been inspected by the Chief Inspector of Fisheries in company with the local Inspectors, and as the result of his inspection and report it has been decided to keep all the beds in the Northern fishery, which extends from Whangaruru Harbour to the North Cape, closed this season, and open only a portion of the Auckland fishery. Some of the parts of the Auckland fishery which were opened last year were so denuded of oysters that it will take some years for the beds to recover. It is found practically impossible, under the present system of picking, to prevent the beds being overpicked, and the only effective way of preserving them appears to be for the Department to undertake the picking itself. If this were done the beds would be conserved, and a regular supply of oysters would be available for the public. The annual fee for a license to take oysters in the North Island has been increased from £110s. to £2. There have been a few prosecutions for illegally taking oysters in the Auckland and Northern fisheries, and fines have been imposed. The oyster-beds in Foveaux Strait are yielding a good supply of oysters. The quantity exported to Australia from these beds during the year ended the 31st December last was 326,655 dozen, valued at, £2,728. Aquarium. —The Department had an aquarium at the New Zealand International Exhibition at Christchurch. The building was constructed and fitted under the direction of Mr. L. F. Ayson, Chief Inspector of Fisheries, and was under his charge for three weeks after the opening, when, as he had to go to San Francisco for fish-ova, it was placed in charge of Mr. C. L. Ayson, Manager of the Hakataramea Salmon Station. It proved to be of great interest, and was visited daily by a large number of people. The main building was 24 ft. by 60 ft., with a manager's office and attendant's room attached. The accommodation for live fish consisted of sixteen wall tanks, two floor stand tanks, seven balanced fresh-water aquaria jars, floor pool, also hatching-boxes in which were exhibited trout and salmon fry. The aquarium wall tanks were designed and erected after the plan of the most recently constructed American aquaria, and consisted of ten with 60 in. by 30 in. glass front four 48 in. by 24 in., and two 42 in. by 24 in. respectively. In these were exhibited Atlantic quinnat, and landlocked salmon of'various ages; Lock Leven, English brown, rainbow, American brook, and Machinaw trout: perch, tench, carp (silver and golden), catfish, and eels. A variety of the beautiful Japanese goldfishes was kindly sent from Tokio by Dr. T. Nishi kawa, who visited the colony a few years ago, and these were exhibited in two large floor-stand

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tanks. There also came with these some beautiful specimens sent by Count Yanagisawa from his private ponds. In the floor pool (8 ft. by 15 ft., 2 ft. 6 in. deep) large brown and rainbow trout were exhibited. The water-supply was obtained from a deep strata artesian well (422$ ft.), which was put down specially for the aquarium by Messrs. J. W. Home and Co. The flow of water from the well was about 3,000 gallons per hour, and was delivered into a distributing-tank at a height of 22 ft. from the ground. The average temperature of the water was 54° Fahr., and it proved to be very suitable for aquarium work, as the fish remained in healthy condition throughout the term of the Exhibition. The other exhibits consisted of American whitefish and shad hatching jars, and tidal boxes for hatching sea-fish eggs, in operation; mounted specimens of English, American, and Canadian market and sport fishes, and also New Zealand trout; models of steam trawders, nets, &c, and a variety of fish products. In conjunction with the aquarium, three hair seals and a sea-lion, brought by the Government steamer "Hinemoa" from Campbell Islands, were on exhibition. They were confined in an enclosure which took in a portion of Victoria Lake, and, although they were kept entirely in fresh water, and at times subjected to a very high temperature, yet they continued healthy, and were liberated at the close of the Exhibition in better condition than when they arrived from their native home in the southern islands. I have, &c, George Allport. The Hon. the Minister of Marine, Wellington. Secretary.

The Chief Inspector op Fisheries to the Secretary, Marine Department. Slßj „ Wellington, 4th April, 1907. I have the honour to supply the following report on the recent of fish-eggs brought over by me from America. On arrival at San Francisco I communicated with the Commissioner for the Bureau of Fisheries at Washington, and within a few days information was received from him that all the fish-eggs would be forwarded to San Francisco in time to ship by the " Sierra," sailing from there on the 7th February. The whitefish eggs and also the lake-herring eggs were despatched from east on the 29th January, and arrived at San Francisco on the 4th February. Mr. Lambson arrived in San Francisco with the quinnat-salmon eggs on the morning of the 6th. The whitefish and salmon eggs were very nicely packed, and were in splendid condition on arrival. All the fish-eggs were placed in the upper starboard cool-chamber of the " Sierra "on the afternoon of the 6th February. At the same time I also put on board 1$ tons ice for use on the voyage. The shipment consisted of nine cases of quinnat-salmon eggs and nine cases of whitefish eggs for your Department, four cases lake-herring eggs for the Tourist Department, one case of 50,000 At!antic-salmon eggs for the Northern Tasmanian Anglers' Association, and one case Atlantic-salmon eggs for the Chr'istchurch Acclimatisation Society. The Commissioner of Fisheries at Washington wired on the 2nd February that he found that no landlocked-salmon eggs could be supplied in time to go by the " Sierra." The " Sierra " sailed from San Francisco at 12 a.m. on the Bth February. The temperature of the cool-chamber in which the eggs were stowed was kept at an average of 36° Fahr. until the 18th, when, owing to an accident to the steamer's boilers, the engines and refrigerating machinery were stopped for twelve hours. During this time the temperature of the chamber rose to 48°, but with the use of the ice I put on board at San Francisco I was able to keep the temperature of the inside of the egg-cases from rising above 42°. When the ship got under way again on the 19th I had the temperature of the chamber lowered to 34°, and this temperature was maintained until the steamer arrived at Auckland. Owing to the " Sierra " arriving at Auckland five days late a bad steamer connection was made to Wellington. The eggs had to be kept in cool-storage at the Auckland Freezing Company's Works until Monday, the 4th March, when they were shipped on board the " Takapuna " at Onehunga for Wellington. Arriving at Wellington on the 6th the salmon and half the whitefish eggs (a million) were transhipped on to the "Mararoa," which sailed for Lyttelton that evening. The other half of the whitefish eggs were put into a cool-room at the Fresh Food and Ice Company until the steamer for Greymouth sailed on the 9th. The quinnat salmon and whitefish eggs for Lake Tekapo went south by the 11.55 a.m ; train from Christchurch on the 7th. This train arriving in Oamaru too late to connect with the Hakataramea train, the salmon eggs had to remain at Oamaru until next day, and did not arrive at Hakataramea until the evening of the Bth. They were unpacked next morning, and turned out in first-rate condition (see Mr. Dean's report attached). The whitefish eggs sent to Lake Tekapo arrived at the hatchery at the head of the lake on the Bth March. They unpacked in very good condition, but a number of these were so close to hatching that they hatched out within an hour of being put into the jars. The whitefish eggs for Lake Kanieri were taken on by me from Wellington in the " Arahura " on the 9th March. Arrived at Greymouth on the morning: of the 11th, they were taken on to Hokitika by the morning train, and from there to Lake Kanieri the same afternoon by special conveyance. The next morning they were taken across the lake to the hatchery in the Acclimatisation Society's launch, and were all unpacked by 2 o'clock that afternoon. With the exception of three trays this lot unpacked in very good condition, but, like the Lake Tekapo lot, a number of the eggs commenced to hatch out almost as soon as they were placed in the hatching-jars.

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The quinnat-salmon eggs were thirty-two days on the journey from the hatchery where they were packed in California until they arrived at the hatchery in this colony. The whitefish eggs sent to Lake Tekapo were thirty-nine days from hatchery to hatchery, and the Lake Kanieri whitefish eggs forty-three days. The number of dead salmon eggs picked out from the time they arrived at San Francisco until their arrival at Auckland was 713, as against 1,072 from last season's shipment. The eggs being close up to hatching on their arrival at Auckland, the handling of the cases in transhipment and the warm weather prevailing on the journey south were responsible for a loss of 3,475. The loss with the whitefish eggs from San Francisco to Auckland was 5,900 this year, as against 9,000 in 1906. The loss from Auckland to the hatcheries was, however, greater than other years, amounting to about 5 per cent., and the loss in hatching would amount to about another 3 per cent., giving rather more than 90 per cent, of fish hatched and liberated from the shipment. Considering the delay and difficulties experienced on the voyage from San Francisco, and the hot weather experienced at Auckland and on the journey south, the result of this shipment of fish-eggs must be considered very satisfactory. When I visited the Hakataramea Salmon Station on the 26th the salmon eggs were all hatched out, and all the boxes were full of remarkably vigorous young fish. In America the Commissioner and other officers of the United States Bureau of Fisheries did everything in their power to assist me. The eggs were splendidly packed, and each lot was forwarded to San Francisco on time. Mr. H. Stephenson Smith, the New Zealand Government Agent at San Francisco, afforded me every courtesy, and gave me valuable assistance both with the fish-eggs and also in trying to procure a supply of striped bass. The Oceanic Steamship Company's officers at San Francisco and on board the " Sierra " gave me every assistance in their power, both at their dock-shed at San Francisco and on board the steamer. The lake-herring eggs for the Tourist Department arrived at San Francisco with a considerable percentage of loss. They gave a lot of trouble on the voyage, dying so fast that, although I worked four shifts a day, two hours a shift, in the cool-chamber, with an assistant, for a good part of the voyage, yet I was unable to remove all the dead eggs, and on arrival at Auckland about 40 per cent, were dead. The Atlantic-salmon eggs for the Christchurch Acclimatisation Society and the Northern Tasmanian Anglers' Association which I obtained from the Canadian Government were a very fine lot, and arrived in splendid condition. I have, &c, L. F. Ayson, Chief Inspector of Fisheries. The Secretary, Marine Department, Wellington.

Dear Sir,— Opoho, 26th March, 1907. Re Salmon Ova. I have very much pleasure in reporting the great success of another shipment of Cali-fornian-salmon ova. According to arrangements with Mr. Allport, I met the ova at Oamaru on the 7th March. It came down by the second express from Christchurch, which arrived about an hour late for the Kurow train. When it did not come by the first express I wired the General Manager of Railways, advising the delay of the Kurow train, but no action was taken in the matter so the ova lay in Oamaru until next afternoon. The weather was sultry, but there was a good' supply of ice. On the Bth Mr. Ronayne replied that he presumed that my wire was intended for the Secretary of Marine, who made all arrangements for the transit of the ova. When the train arrived at Hakataramea three out of the nine cases were, with a supply of ice, conveyed to the hatchery. The work of unpacking was commenced early next morning, and before evening the ova were all laid in the hatching-boxes, all of which were full, including twelve boxes erected temporarily outside. The next day the bad ones were all picked out, and numbered 1,158 On the 11th they commenced hatching, which showed they were put in water just in time ' On the 12th 3,475 bad ones were picked out, A large number of these died in hatching, with part of the sac protruding from the egg. The number of dead removed up to the 16th was 13 786 On this date I left, the ova being nearly all hatched and looking well. I should mention that on my arrival at the salmon station I found everything clean and in readiness as usual. T t-. t-, ,-„ .. T Yours, <fee, \j. h. Ayson, Esq., Chief Inspector of Fisheries. p Deans

Sir James Hector to the Secretary, Marine Department. mi ~ . „ Petone, 4th May, 1907. Ihe Secretary, Marine Department, Wellington. Re Four Fish from Lake Ohau. These fish are without doubt young sea-run specimens of the blue-back salmon sockeye (properly "saw-gui"), or redfish of Fraser River, and the krasnaia ryba of Japan—two males and two rtiiiiciics •

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Oncorhynehus nerka. Length. Height. Weight. at i In. In. Oz. Males- 19 „ 42 II '.'. ■■■ 18 4 36 Fema 28 4 28 IV " Z - 23 4 23 The colour in all the specimens is very dark, almost black with faint grey patches like bruises. The preservative was perhaps too strong. Fins much abraded, especially the tail fins of the males, mif they had been struggling in a rocky stream Teeth mucl» developed i„ the males, the snouts being turned upwards, but the hooked character of the adult fash has nojet shown itself. The females have smooth tumid snouts and moderate-sized regular teeth. All spots and markings are very obscure. Nos I and 111 were opened and examined internally. I Flesh dark-red in colour, and firm in texture, but without fat—in tact very lean. Stomach empty and shrivelled. Pylorics empty, all the store of fat haying been absorbed from them and aso from the rest of the abdominal viscera. The milts formed too well-developed lobes 5 in. in length, fin. largest diameter. They were quite soft and ripe for the spawning operations, which evidently had not commenced. II Flesh very dark red and dry, stomach and intestines empty, and membranous and pylorics hardly discernible, the whole of the store of fat which accumulates before the fish re-enters hie fresh water from the sea having been consumed during its arduous ascent from the mouth o the Waitaki River to Lake Ohau. The ovaries or roes are about one-third of their full size, and he eggs, though quite distinct, are less than one-fifth of the diameter they should have when fully developed, so that they are much less advanced than the milt in the companion male fish and ide Mother males arrive later on fecundation may not be effected. Moreover, unless he female fish obtain in the lake an abundance of suitable food they will not be able to recover from their exhausted condition sufficiently to develop the eggs. This latter process requires a large amount of nutritious food, as the roes when fully ripe are equal to about one-fifth o the weight of the fish (in this case would be 5 oz. if fully grown), whereas in their present stage they are only about a thirtieth of the total weight. . , , These fish are evidentiy out of their proper season for spawning, as they are too late to be a " fall run," and too early for a " spring run." There are two varieties of the blue-back salmon, the larger and the smaller. The smallest females of the larger at spawning-time weigh 37 oz while the largest of the smaller kind are only 8 oz. The fish under review though undersized, must be taken to belong to the larger variety. Great care should be exercisedin framing reguhv tions for the protection of these fish, founded on searching observation of their habits. These particular fish are so much out of condition that they are not fit either or food or sport; yet had Lev been allowed to mature, in the course of a few weeks they might have produced about 2,000 fertile eggs, which would have been quite sufficient to stock Ohau Lake. It is to be hoped that here are plenty more of them, and that they will not be disturbed, as I look on this take of fish as the most interesting and important event that has occurred in the prolonged effort that has been made to establish a sea-going salmon in New Zealand rivers. , , , I would like to get information as to the exact date when these fish were caught, and by what bait or otherwise, and also a description of the locality, and if any number of similar fish were seen at the same time. . . ■ , If any young salmon fry are available they should be released in the lakes and not in the , ", " J AMES xxECTOIv. rivers next season.

The Principal Examiner of Masters and Mates to the Secretary, Marine Department. Office of the Principal Examiner of Masters and Mates, Customhouse, Wellington, 3rd May, 1907. I have the honour to submit my annual report on the examination of masters and mates in New Zeal Tlie work has been carried out by the Examiners at the four principal ports in a satisfactory mani There has been an increase of about 40 per cent, in the number of examinations held in the colony during the last year, but only a small increase in the number of successful passes The principal increase has been in Auckland, where a number of candidates from local vessels have tried for the second mate's foreign-going certificate, owing probably to the increased value of this certificate since " The New Zealand Shipping and Seamen Act, 1903," came into force. This certificate now entitles the holder to serve as either second mate in a foreign-going ship, or as mate of a home-trade vessel; but the examination being considerably more difficult than that for hometrade mate, the number of failures for this grade has been large. So far no candidates have applied to be examined for the new grade of second mate, hometrade • the examination for mate, though somewhat more difficult, is still so easy that candidates unanimously decide to try for the higher-grade certificate, which does not require any previous officer's service. , . . , . . , There have been very few examinations for fishing-boat or cargo-vessel master or for restrictedlimits sailing-vessel master, a large number of masters having obtained service certificates immediately after the Act came into force compelling them to have certificates.

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The new and additional work in the home-trade examinations which came into force last year has made no appreciable difference either in the number of candidates applying for examination or in the number of passes; the effect of the new work in the examinations should lead to greater care on the part of the officers in determining their distance off different points of land, and will, 1 trust, tend to educate the home-trade master in the matter of checking the deviation of his own ship's compass by astronomical bearings, instead of trusting too implicitly to the annual adjustment, which is always liable to change. I would again draw attention to the fact that the law still allows a man with only a riverstearner certificate and one year's service in a harbour, lake, or river to command passengervessels running to all parts of the extended limits, such as between Auckland and Whangarei, and that to save expense an owner of a small passenger-steamer may occasionally be tempted to run in these limits without the requisite experience. The differences existing between the qualifications required for master of sailing-vessels under 25 tons register carrying passengers in river limits and that required for master of river steamers of any size is very marked. The former are required to have four years of service at sea or in extended river limits, and some knowledge of the ship's compass, deviation, and the chart, whereas the latter are only required to have one year's service in any river or harbour, and are not required to have any knowledge of the compass or chart. No candidates have applied during the last year to be examined in the compass syllabus, or for the certificate of extra master. One candidate for colonial pilot passed successfully, and one failed for oolour blindness. I have, <fee, Harold S. Blackburne.

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Return showing the Total Ordinary Expenditure of the Marine Department during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1907.

Nature of Expenditure. Details. Totals. Grand Totals. £ s. d. £ s. d. 1,809 9 11 £ s. d. 1,809 9 11 Salaries of Head Office Staff Harbours:— Manukau, — Salaries House-rent Wharves (Graham's Beach and Orua Bay) .. Stores and contingencies Russell, — Stores and contingencies Hokianga,— Salaries Oil-launch Tower for harbour-light Stores and contingencies Kaipara, — Salaries Leading beacons ... House-rent StoreB and contingencies Kawhia, — Attendance on lights Stores and contingencies Opunake, — Salary Stores and contingencies Foxton, — Salary Stores and contingencies Tauranga,— Contingencies Mokau, — Salary Grant for snagging river Wairau, — Salary Removal of snags Stores and contingencies Motueka, — Salary Waitapu,— Salary Maintenance of lights Puponga, — Stores and contingencies Collingwood,— Salary Stores and contingencies Karamea, — Salary Removal of snags Stores and contingencies .. .. - • • Okarito, — Salary Cutting channel through bar Clearing river of snags, &e. Stores and contingencies Okuru, — Salary for signalling Stores and contingencies Little Wanganui,— Signalling vessels, &o. Waikawa, — Salary Picton — Contingencies 484 0 0 24 0 0 10 11 5 98 4 1 328 0 0 200 15 0 39 0 0 102 3 1 581 6 8 254 13 8 35 0 0 171 11 2 180 0 0 60 8 11 50 0 0 3 2 4 31 5 0 15 0 50 0 0 80 0 0 616 15 6 22 4 7 669 18 1 1,042 11 6 53 2 4 32 10 0 240 8 11 7 9 5 130 0 0 155 0 0 12 0 0 50 4 11 217 4 11 5 0 0 25 0 0 75 3 9 100 3 9 9 1 7 35 0 0 22 3 9 57 3 9 92 9 0 83 19 6 36 5 3 212 13 9 90 0 0 23 0 0 40 0 0 45 16 4 198 16 4 50 0 0 9 10 19 2 0 10 0 0 8 6 6 Stores, repairs to buoys, and sundries 242 18 5 Lighthouses: — Salaries •Oil Stores and contingencies Keepers' travelling-expenses Lighthouse artificer Renewal of telephone-line to Kaipara Lighthouse 3,954 12 4 9,512 1 11 1,664 2 3 2,848 4 11 152 11 2 230 0 0 121 11 4 14,528 11 7 Carried forward £20,292 13 10 * Total cost of oil lurohased. For value of oil consumed see return of cost of maintenance of lighthouses.

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Return Showing the Total Ordinary Expenditure of the Marine Department— continued.

Nature of Expenditure. Details. Totals. Grand Totals. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 20,292 13 10 Brought forward.. superintendents of Mercantile Marine :— Salaries Assistance Contingencies— Rent Sundries 1,160 0 0 328 1 9 60 0 0 83 3 7 143 3 7 1,631 5 4 inspectors of Load-lines, &c. :— Salaries.. 86 18 4 (Veather-reporting:— Salaries Instruments Rent and Contingencies 433 6 8 67 1 7 43 8 8 86 18 4 Protection of Fish and Oysters :— Salaries of inspectors Collection, &c, of rainbow-trout ova .. Collection, &c, of brown-trout ova Grant to Portobello Fish-hatchery Board towards cost of importing lobsters Maintenance grant to Portobello Fish-hatchery Board .. Grant to Hokitika Fish-hatohery Import of salmon-ova Import of whitefish-ova Expenses of striped bass Acclimatisation of fish 305 19 10 134 17 4 644 1 2 543 16 11 50 0 0 250 0 0 66 6 6 197 15 0 272 7 7 60 3 1 8 7 0 Hakataramea Salmon-hatohery,— Salaries Contingencies 292 0 0 94 19 11 ! 1,345 16 4 386 19 11 2,622 18 10 Travelling-expenses Contingencies 112 8 6 I 133 12 11 246 1 5 Less credits to vote .. 25,177 13 3 237 6 9 jovernment steamers:— Working-expenses, s.s. " Hinemoa " .. Working-expenses, s.s. " Tutanekai " .. New shaft and propeller, s.s. " Tutanekai " 8,217 5 11 6,187 1 1 324 5 7 14,728 12 7 552 4 4 24,940 6 6 Less amount of freights, passages, &c. Miscellaneous services:— Departmental travelling-expenses Maintenance Jackson's Head beacon Coastal buoys and beacons Survey of coast by H.M.S. " Penguin," to 31st March, 1905 Aquarium at N.Z. International Exhibition Chatham Island wharf extension . Charts and books Cbeokmg overcrowding of steamers Legal expenses Copying weather plans for the Meteorologioal Office, London Expenses connected with inquiries into wreoks Survey of unseaworthy ships Relief of distressed seamen Expenses of Wool Fires Commission Fog-signals Subsidy to Shipwreck Relief Society Improving entrance to Waikouaiti River Marine survey—preliminary expenses " N.Z. Nautical Almanao " Postage and telegrams Printing engineers'log-books .. Refund examination fee, C. M. Inverarity Rent, &c., connected with examinations Searching for dismasted " Lutterworth " Sundries 37 0 4 58 15 3 17 1 5 8,008 18 0 1,710 1 5 44 0 0 229 18 6 310 5 11 121 11 3 I 14,176 8 3 123 3 6 153 18 11 44 16 0 89 18 5 928 9 2 197 13 10 400 0 0 27 0 0 330 13 3 251 2 11 437 14 9 119 8 0 10 0 51 0 1 34 0 0 524 16 11 13,624 18 0 Less recoveries 14,252 7 10 627 9 10 Training-ship " Amokura " .. ' .. •2,746 15 8 10 0 0 2,736 15 8 Grand Total 55,478 8 5 • Of this amount £2,662 16s. 4d. was expended by the Defend Marine Department on the Department before the vessel was ti Ith February, 1907. iken over by the

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Return showing the Cost of Maintenance of the New Zealand Lighthouses, and the Quantity of Oil consumed at each, during the Year ended 31st March, 1907.

Oil. Name of Lighthouse. Salaries. Gallons consumed. Value. Stores and Contingencies. Totals. Cape Maria van Diemen Moko Hinou Tiritiri Bean Rock Ponui Passage Cuvier Island East Gape Portland Island Cape Palliser Pencarrow Head Napier Bluff Somes Island Cape Egmont Manukau South Head Manukau South Head leading-lights Manukau North Head leading-lights Kaipara Head Cape Campbell Godley Head Akaroa Head Jack's Point Moeraki Taiaroa Head Cape Saunders Nugget Point Waipapapa Point Dog Island Centre Island Puysegur Point Cape Foulwind Kahurangi Point Farewell Spit Hokitika Nelson French Pass Brothers Stephen Island Tory Channel £ s. d. 358 15 9 348 13 1 252 14 4 201 5 10 160 0 0 312 5 8 311 7 5 337 5 9 277 1 10 252 2 0 20 0 0 155 16 8 267 9 5 203 18 6 101 16 0 224 11 11 244 11 8 262 5 8 270 0 0 160 0 0 240 0 0 244 5 6 244 7 4 387 5 7 251 0 7 337 19 5 344 2 3 355 18 11 259 16 8 342 9 5 385 0 0 12 0 0 350 0 0 166 9 0 415 16 11 363 8 10 90 0 0 Gals. 911 875 629 Kerosene 79 1,353 879 726 873 790 Gas 694 580 718 163 229 576 529 523 556 368 558 624 683 962 624 784 872 902 580 1,085 645 £ s. d. 62 12 7 60 3 2 43 4 10 4 8 0 5 8 8 92 19 4 60 5 8 49 18 3 60 0 5 54 6 3 10 10 0 47 14 3 39 17 6 49 7 3 11 4 2 15 14 10 39 12 0 36 7 5 35 19 2 38 4 6 25 6 0 38 7 3 42 18 0 46 19 1 66 2 9 42 18 0 53 18 0 59 19 0 62 0 3 39 17 6 74 11 10 44 6 10 12 4 0 17 17 11 12 2 0 48 19 0 117 1 7 10 18 8 £ s. d. (»)124 2 4 111 19 11 53 4 11 28 9 6 27 4 0 107 4 8 86 19 11 74 17 2 (>>)90 19 0 (o)196 17 2 2 15 10 44 17 4 51 0 2 69 10 11 2 17 9 14 18 5 (d)132 13 4 ( e )144 7 5 42 12 2 ( f )128 8 1 (8)138 2 10 0>)37 7 1 C)62 14 3 (")54 0 10 (1)137 15 2 (m)39 3 3 ( n )70 9 7 80 18 1 124 1 2 46 10 4 (°)91 17 5 (P)116 18 6 £ s. d. 545 10 8 520 16 2 349 4 1 234 3 4 192 12 8 512 9 8 458 13 0 462 1 2 428 1 3 503 5 5 33 5 10 248 8 3 358 7 1 322 16 8 14 1 11 132 9 3 396 17 3 425 6 6 340 17 0 436 12 7 323 8 10 315 14 4 349 17 9 345 7 3 591 3 6 333 1 10 462 7 0 484 19 4 542 0 4 346 4 6 508 18 8 546 5 4 24 4 0 427 12 8 194 15 10 609 5 2 569 7 1 103 19 7 Gas 253 176 712 1,703 159 59 14 9 (1)16 4 10 ( r )144 9 3 88 16 8 3 0 11 Totals 9,512 1 11 23,373 1,634 5 11 2,848 4 11 13,994 12 9 (») Includes £20 4s. 2d. cost of repairs. (I and £117 6s. Id. for incandescent installation. fla(?staff. (f) Includes £75 15s. lid. for repair (1) Includes £4 is. 4d. for repairs. CO Include £1 19s. lid. for repairs. ( n ) Includes £14 19s £119s. for repairs. (q) Includes £6 6s. for rep i>) Includes £6 4s.,' (d) Includes £46 rs. (8) Include es £3 6s. 2d. for re] 5. 3d. for electric >airs. (') Iuclu 5d. cost of repairs. (°) Ii for repairs and alterations. 38 £15 Is. 6d. for repairs. i pairs. (') Includes £18 15s, bells. (o) Includes £1 3s. ides £6 6s. 8d. for repairs and i lcludes £7 10s. 5d. (e) Includes . (1') Includes £1 Is. , 7d. for repairs. 4d. for repairs. !74 16s. 6d. for pre . cost of repairs £68 14s. for new i. 6d. for repairs, (m) Includes (P) Includes (visions.

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Return showing the Cost of Erection of the New Zealand Coastal Lighthouses.

Return showing the Fees, &c., received under the Shipping and Seamen Acts, the Merchant Shipping Act, the Harbours Acts, and the Seafisheries Acts, during the Year ended 31st March, 1907.

Return showing the Amount of Light Dues collected during the Year ended 31st March, 1907.

Return showing the Amount of Pilotage, Port Charges, &c., collected during the Year ended 31st March, 1907.

Name of Lighthouse. ' Cost of Erection. Pencarrow Head • 7.. Nelson Tiri tiri Mana Island* Taiaroa Head Godley Head Dog Island Farewell Spit Nugget Point Cape Campbell Manukau Head Cape Foulwind Brothers .. Portland Island Moeraki Centre Island Puysegur Point .. Cape Maria van Diemen Akaroa Head Cape Saunders Cape Egmontf Moko Hinou Waipapapa Point Ponui Passage J Kaipara Head French Pass Cuvier Island Stephen Island Cape Palliser East Cape Kahurangi Point Jack's Point Cost of telegraph cable to Tiritiri Miscellaneous and unallocated £ s. d. 6,422 0 4 2,824 8 9 5,747 7 2 5,513 0 1 4,923 14 11 4,705 16 4 10,480 12 8 6,139 11 8 6,597 3 7 5,619 2 6 4,975 2 4 6,955 9 1 6,241 0 0 6,554 14 5 4,288 13 2 5,785 19 0 9,958 19 5 7,028 14 8 7,150 6 5 6,066 6 3 3,353 17 11 8,186 5 0 5,969 18 11 5,571 8 0 1,427 17 5 7,406 16 11 9,349 9 11 6,243 16 1 7,594 8 8 9,145 18 1 1,204 10 9 1,085 19 6 1,322 2 2 Total .. £191,840 12 1 * Light discontinued; moved to Cape Egm< t Cost of iron tower, lantern, and apparai noved from Mana Island, is not included in 1 I Built by Provincial Government of A mown in Marine Department. LOnt. btus, which were rethia. Auckland; cost not

Nature of Receipts. Amount. Shipping and Seamen Acts :— Fees for engagement and discharge of seamen, and sale of forms, &c. Surveys of steamers and sailing-vessels .. Measurement, &c, of ships Examinations of masters, mates, and engineers Light dues Sundries Merchant Shipping Act Harbours Acts:— Pilotage and port charges Sundry receipts Sea-fisheries Acts £ s. d. 3,179 18 6 1,933 10 0 30 10 0 377 17 6 32,454 1 4 469 18 1 277 10 2 2,206 0 8 476 3 11 413 0 3 Total .. 41,818 10 5

Port. Amount collected. Auckland Onehunga Whangarei Russell .. Mangonui Whangaroa Hokianga Kaipara Thames Coromandel Tauranga Poverty Bay Napier New Plymouth Waitara Wanganui Patea Wellington Wairau Picton Nelson Westport Greymouth Hokitika Lyttelton Timaru Oamaru Dunedin Bluff and Invercargill £ s. d. 11,402 9 2 216 19 1 142 4 2 21 19 10 3 17 3 3 3 3 49 3 11 232 3 2 73 10 4 14 12 10 27 17 8 671 7 6 946 12 2 278 8 11 72 7 9 163 19 1 16 6 11 7,703 17 2 23 4 9 524 10 1 442 15 2 769 2 10 341 5 7 5 14 11 3,082 3 9 371 1 9 136 6 8 1,976 13 6 2,740 2 2 Total £32,454 1 4

Name of Port. Pilotage. Port Charges, Ao. Total. Auckland* Onehunga Hokianga Kaipara Thames* Gisborne* Wairoa* Napier* New Plymouth* Waitara* Wanganui* .. Patea* Foxton Wellington* .. Wairau .. j Nelson* .. , Hokitika* .. Lyttelton* Timaru* Oamaru* .. j Dunedin* .. Inveroargill ) and Bluff* [ Karamea Kaiapoi Westport* £ s. d. 1,223 4 3 £ s. d. : 8,852 3 5 245 14 0 £ s. d. '10,075 7 8 i 245 14 0 111 14 11 1,343 14 4 107 7 0 1,558 2 1 151 8 0 7,585 11 11 354 13 8 254 0 6 736 12 7 80 16 0 264 9 11 15,433 7 4 229 6 3 2,882 15 3 57 15 0 18,430 12 5 6,607 8 11 1,916 7 5 19,415 10 2 111 14 11 67 11 3 107 7 0 40 5 2 144 1 0 I 1,274 16 9 136 15 0 119 17 11 622 8 11 65 5 3 264 9 11 318 19 0 229 6 3 2,604 12 2 1,276* 3 1 i 1,517 16 11 7 7 0 6,310 15 2 217 18 8 134 2 7 114 3 8 15 10 9 15,114* 8 4 10,843'10 5 2,999 8 0 278 3 1 +57 15 0 7,587 2 0: 3,608 0 11 +1,916 7 5 8,494 18 9: 10,920 11 5 4,019 0 1 2,234 6 6 6,253 6 7 10 6 3 0 15 0 411 19 9 10 6 3 0 15 0 411 19 9 Totals .. 36,536 5 8 57,982 17 3 94,519 2 11 * Harbour Board revenue. t Tormai ;e ral ;e on car; [o.

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Return of Estates of Deceased Seamen received and administered in pursuance of the Provisions of "The Shipping and Seamen Act, 1903," during the Year ended 31st March, 1907.

Name of Seaman. Balance to Credit of Estate on 31st March, 1906. Amount received. Balance to Credit of Amount paid. Estate on 31st March, 1907. £ s. d. 2 16 4 14 17 10 1 16 11 10 0 6 5 8 6 £ s. d. £ s. d. 2 16 4 14 17 10 1 16 11 10 0 6 0 2 6 £ s. d. A. Taylor W. Carey J. Ferguson Bennet Lissing .. H. S. Molvig J. Peterson C. Olsen J. Johnston J. P. Coulson Edwin Robinson — Hodder C. Johnson J. G. Anderson .. Frederick J. Eiffelbein John H. Elwood Pierre Johann .. J. McPherson C. Foreman Christopher Shears Henry Keast K. Hansen Robert Wilson .. A. Tronson William J. Robb John Beer William Thomas Henry Loftus Thomas Thomas A. Sorrenson J. Wallen W.R.Morris .. J. E. Morris Edward Williams E. Hargreaves .. Daniel Davies .. A. Bagley O. Blanquist Rosso Concetto .. J. Iverson J. Cole .. N. Tansley Charles Clarke .. P. Fulda E. Quimar A. Richter A. Callas F. Walker A. W. Tait E. J. Harper Henry Payne T. W. Myers A. E. Watters .. 9 17 6 41 15 0 9 6 8 6 0 5 0 10 0 0 8 0 0 8 0 114 44 11 6 12 0 0 8 10 9 2 11 0 8 0 0 8 8 62 17 11 3 12 4 3 2 7 7 8 0 9 17 4 18 2 3 18 0 9 14 12 6 4 14 1 3 5 6 2 12 0 3 13 8 6 5 0 5 8 4 2 6 1 0 19 0 2 4 10 5 11 0 16 2 16 2 16 2 2 16 116 4 0 0 2 8 5 1 14 2 3 15 6 2 7 6 10 0 1 15 8 0 0 4 69 6 9 8 16 4 4 14 2 9 17 6 41 15 0 9 6 8 114 44 11 6 12 0 0 8 1 0 0 17 6 62 17 11 3 12 4 2 6 8 7 8 0 5 0 0 18 2 3 1412 6 2 10 0 11 6 5 0 10 0 0 8 0 0 8 0 8 5 5 0 8 0 0 8 8 015 11 417 4 18* 0 9 2 4 1 3 5 6 2 12 0 3 13 8 6 5 0 5 8 4 2 6 1 i "o 0 0 19 0 1 4 10 5 11 0 16 2 16 2 16 2 2 16 116 4 "o 0 2**8 5 1 14 2 3 15 6 2 *7 6 10 0 lis 8 0 "o 4 69 6 9 816 4 414 2 Totals 95 19 3 364 13 4 307 1 2 153 11 5

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Return showing Amounts paid to Disabled Seamen under Section 119 of "The Shipping and Seamen Act, 1903," for the Year ended 31st March, 1907.

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Name of Seaman. Name of Vessel. Nature of Injury or Illness. Amount paid tor Wages, Maintenance. Ac. Ambrose, F. Anderson, M. Anderton, H. Manuka, s.s. Kanieri, s.s. Kittawa, s.s. Bruises Injured ankle Appendicitis £ s. d. 7 18 4 5 10 Id Passage to port of discharge. Ditto. As pin, R. Atkins, W. H. .. Bade, E. Baker, T. Baker, T. Baker, W. Barrett, A. Batty, W. Beer, J. A. Barry, C. Brennan, T. Brown, E. Brown, H. Brown, W. F. Burns, J. H. Butler, W. Butt, G. A. Defender, s.s. Ripple, s.s; Defiance, ship Hauroto, s.s. Monowai, s.s. Clansman, s.s. Tongariro, s.s. Apanui, s.s. Canopus, s.s. Karawa, s.s. Everton Grange, s.s. Queen of the South, s.s. Kate Tatham, schooner Defender, s.s. .. ■* .. Clansman, s.s. Kaikoura, s.s. Warrimoo, s.s. Injured ankle Hemorrhage of lungs 1 Rheumatic fever Quinsy Rheumatic fever and rupture Injured back Broken leg .. Severe cold I Influenza • Injured arm | Rupture Rheumatism Duodenal ulcer Broken ribs Ricked back Broken thigh Broken ribs 25 15 4 11 0 3 45 5 0 12 4 6 10 17 6 11 18 0 7 16 6 14 5 0 Still in hospital. 5 9 0 6 3 0 28 5 2 8 10 6 18 19 6 Passage to port of discharge. 9 14 0 10 6 4 13 14 8 18 12 0 12 5 4 7 10 0 42 2 (i 4 5 0 8 3 4 Passage to port of discharge. 10 18 8 3 8 8 10 4 7 10 4 0 5 19 0 5 13 6 10 11 8 6 16 6 11 18 (i 7 II 10 9 18 6 12 11 6 7 19 0 8 5 0 9 18 0 38 5 6 22 11 4 5 10 8 10 2 10 2 6 8 Passage to port of discharge. 8 3 4 And passage to Wellington. 7 13 8 5 3 4 9 17 0 Passage to port of discharge. 6 10 0 17 11 0 7 19 8 14 18 8 18 9 4 8 3 8 Passage to port of discharge. 12 2 8 4 7 0 25 4 6 37 10 0 0 15 4 5 12 6 12 13 2 Cable, B. Callaghan, J. Campbell, T. Carstens, 0. Chambers, 0. Clark, E. A. Clark, W. Claydon, T. Coglan, .). Colbert, W. Waikare, s.s. Corinna, s.s. Canopus s.s. St. Kilda, schooner Moura, s.s. Atua, s.s. Moana, s.s. Taniwha, s.s. Waiotahi, s.s. Wakatrr, s.s. Bad leg Influenza Itch Gastritis Poisoned hand Crushed finger Injured head „ hand ,, spine Poisoned hand Collins',' C. Conway, J. Coombes, V. Crawford, W. Crawley, R. Crowden, J. Cunningham, W... v. i :: i Pateena, s.s. Mokoia, s.s. ; Tongariro, s.s. Talune, s.s. I Corinna, s.s. Queen of the South, s.s. ! Waimarie, s.s. Scalded face Measles Injured foot Poisoned hand Appendicitis Injured kneecap Injured fingers Cuthbert, S. Darroch, E. Dennis, P. Dirkx, A. Donald, W. Dromgoll, G. Dufferency, ,1. Eindersen, J. Ellston, H. Evans, T. Fandener, F. Finlayson, G. •• i i Mokoia, s.s. Mararoa, s.s. Moana, s.s. I Ruapehu, s.s. Clansman, s.s. Sardhana, barque Kia Ora, s.s. Manurewa, barque Haupiri, s.s. Gannet, scow j Canopus, s.s. i Hauroto, s.s. Burnt face and arms Injured foot Stomach trouble Fistula Sprained back Rheumatism Injured arm and leg Broken leg Piles Injured stomach foot Stomach trouble Fitzgerald, P. Taviuni, s.s. Poisoned hand Fitzpatrick, R. .. Fraser, G. Fulkes, J. Gable, G. Squall, s.s. Invercargill, s.s. ; Rarawa, s.s. Morning Light, s.s. Severe cold Injured back „ hand Quinsy Garr, ,1. M. Garrity, W. Gibbs, J. Greaves, J. A. Gunn, H. Hall, S... Hampshire, G. Clansman, s.s. Brunei, s.s. Maheno, s.s. Takapuna, s.s. Kennedy, s.s. Rarawa, s.s. Mokoia, s.s. Severe cold Rheumatism Injured hand Burnt eye Broken ribs Influenza Injured arm Hansen, P. Hardwick, H. Harris, W. Harrison, J. Harrison, W. C. .. Hawkins, C. Haydon, EKapanui, s.s. May, scow Tokomaru, s.s. Tarawera, s.s. . Takapuna, s.s. Rakaia. s.s. Moeraki, s.s leg ,, arm Pneumonia Burnt feet Synovitis of knee Effects of gas-fumes Fractured elbow

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Return showing Amounts paid to Disabled Seamen — continued.

Name of Seaman. Name of Vessel. Nature of Injury or Illness. Amount paid for Wages, Maintenance, &c. Hayes, T. Hays, J. Hewitt, R. Hosking, W. F. Howard, M. Hughes, F. Hume, .1. Hume, S. Iversen, K. ,1 ansen, C. Jansen, J. Jenkins, J. W. .. Jones, F. Johnson, C. Johnson, J. Kars, P. Kelly, T. Kelly, W. Kennedy, G. Klemp, W. Kettleson, G. Korter, W. Knowles, W. Lang, C. Larson, A. Lee,F. Leslie, W. Lie, C. .. Lind, H. Livingstone, .1. Livingstone, W. .. Lopez, F. Lynch, J. P. Mally, J. Malone, T. Mai quest, C. Marshall, R. Matthews, R. Maubin, J. Meadows, R. Millar, W. Mills, J. Mitchell, J. M. .. Moore, J. Morris, M. Muir, C. Mullaney, P. Murdoch, D. McArthur, J. Mc Arthur, J. MoCann, M. McCarthy, J. McCarthy, R. McDonald, J. McDonald, J. McDonald, J. McDonald, J. McDonald, T. McDonald, W. .. McLean, N. McLean, P. McNeil, R. McPherson, N. .. Wilson, A. Nelson, D. Nelson, Mrs. F. .. Nelson, F. Nilson, J. Norris, W. Oakes, J. Oliver, W. Olney, S. O'Neill, F. Osberg, C. F. Oughten, J. .. Talune, s.s. .. .. Injured ankle .. Clansman, s.s. .. .. j Rheumatism .. Manuka, s.s. .. .. Burnt foot .. Hawea, s.s. .. .. Cancer (fatal) Awanui, auxiliary schooner.. I Severe cold .. .. .. Victoria, s.s. .. • • Injured knee Takapuna, s.s. .. .. „ leg Whangape, s.s. .. .. „ eye Kennedy, s.s. .. .. „ back Waverley, s.s. .. .. Inflammation of neck Altair, scow .. .. Injured leg Warrimoo, s.s. .. .. j Rheumatic fever .. Pateena, s.s. .. .. Injured finger .. .. Aratapu, s.s. .. .. Fractured skull .. Kahu, s.s. .. .. Injured foot .. Auchencrag .. .. Typhoid fever .. .. Mangapapa, s.s. .. .. Injured finger Muritai, s.s. .. .. „ ankle Drayton Grange, s.s. .. Abscess in ear .. .. Manuka, s.s. . . .. Injured ankle Rarawa, s.s. .. .. Strained muscles of stomach Rotoiti, s.s. .. .. Inflammation of bladder .. .. Wai-iti, s.s. .. .. Kidney trouble .. .. Elizabeth, brigantine .. Rupture .. Rotoiti, s.s. .. .. Ulcerated leg .. ,, .. .. Injured leg .. Mapourika, s.s. .. .. Ricked knee .. Moeraki, s.s. .. .. Rheumatism .. May Howard .. .. Loss of arm Putiki, s.s.. aux. schooner .. Poisoned foot .. .. Mararoa, s.s. .. .. Sprained ankle .. .. Kini, s.s. .. .. Bruised arm .. Tarawera, s.s. .. .. Enteric fever .. .. ! Hirotha, barque .. .. Strained back .. .. Taniwha, s.s. .. .. Injured hand .. .. Taviuni, s.s. .. .. Burnt leg .. Stella, s.s. .. .. Injured legs Moeraki, s.s. .. .. Burnt foot .. i Senorito, ship .. .. Rheumatic fever .. I Rimu, s.s. .. .. j Erysipelas .. Wainui, s.s. .. .. ' Asthma .. | Ngapuhi, s.s. .. .. , Injured knee .. ; Rakaia, s.s. .. ... J Effects of gas-fumes Rarawa, s.s. .. ... ] Abscess .. j Charles Edward, s.s. .. ; Injured arm .. : Whangape, s.s. . . .. j „ eye .. ' Takapuna, s.s. .. ... j Burnt foot Rakanoa, s.s. .. .. Injured knee Warrimoo, s.s. .. .. j Rheumatic fever .. Takapuna, s.s. .. .. Injured leg Corinna, s.s. .. • • Broken collar-bone .. j Manuka, s.s. .. .. , Injured leg .. I Rotomahana, s.s. .. .. ; Rheumatism ,. i Arahura, s.s. .. .. Bruised leg Talune, s.s. .. .. „ thigh .. .. . Canopus, s.s. .. ... Influenza .. \ Mokoia, s.s. .. .. Congestion of lungs .. j Riverina, s.s. .. .. Injured head .. ; Kaituna, s.s. .. ...', Ulcerated leg .. .. : Eunice, scow .. .. Injured head .. i Mokoia, s.s. .. .. Bruised shoulder ,, .. ... Measles ,, .. .. I Injured fingers Mararoa, s.s. .. .. ! „ hand Pukaki, s.s. .. .. J Internal trouble Penguin, s.s. .. .. J Bruised back Atua, s.s. .. .. | Broken rib .. Kia Ora, s.s. .. .. Injured arm Queen Helena, s.s. .. Concussion of brain .. Penguin, s.s. .. .. j Bad leg .. Ruapehu, s.s. .. .. Dislocated hip .. .. Ngapuhi, s.s. .. ... J Injured foot .. Tasman, s.s. .. ... J „ finger .. Rarawa, s.s. .. .. „ knee Moana, s.s. .. ... . » hand Taviuni, sis. .. .. „ foot .. Mararoa, s.s. .. .. Broken rib £ s. d. 13 8 9 6 15 4 4 12 0 21 19 4 5 8 8 13 8 8 13 18 4 10 0 0 10 12 2 8 9 0 9 10 8 34 14 0 17 10 2 15 11 0 8 9 0 24 5 4 5 17 4 9 17 4 15 1 S 12 7 8 20 13 2 40 3 4 Passage to port of discharge. 30 0 0 5 18 7 9 16 0 11 0 0 6 16 0 49 18 4 8 10 0 6 15 II 6 7 4 26 1 0 47 7 0 8 1 6 13 19 7 35 17 6 12 5 0 36 0 0 9 9 6 5 18 4 11 13 4 24 18 0 17 19 8 22 18 8 6 3 0 13 12 2 7 2 6 7 19 8 5 10 0 6 18 9 9 6 4 Btill sick. 6 19 « 8 11 8 6 11 2 15 0 2 3 17 0 8 10 4 8 9 6 8 10 8 11 9 11 9 14 2 23 10 4 8 0 0 7 12 0 14 13 2 5 12 0 4 17 0 10 3 8 11 8 0 10 14 8 11 8 8 14 0 6 4 16 6 7 9 10 5 10 8

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Return showing Amounts paid to Disabled Seamen — continued.

Nanre of Seaman. Name of Vessel. Nature of Injury or Illness. Amount paid for Wages, Maintenance, &c. £ s. d. 7 3 0 Oxpring, G. Pace, A. W. Parker, E. Pea, J. .. Perham, T. Peterson, H. Arahura, s.s. Kent, s.s. Mamari, s.s. Rotomahana, s.s. Paparoa, s.s. Ripple, s.s. Pneumonia Whitlow Tumour Injured ankle Diseased elbow Injured heel Still sick. 13 11 0 13 14 8 23 19 (i Passage to port of discharge. 11 9 11 24 5 4 29 16 li 25 7 8 6 6 0 19 17 0 17 8 2 15 1 0 7 0 0 18 18 0 13 10 10 7 0 4 12 14 8 16 3 3 5 19 0 16 19 0 20 9 4 4 5 0 10 18 4 13 19 0 6 12 8 3 16 6 40 0 0 26 2 2 24 18 0 6 10 8 39 1 2 Still sick. 12 5 4 8 5 4 23 3 11 Passage to port of discharge. 12 16 6 21 9 2 22 13 6 42 0 0 Passage to port of discharge. Ditto. Peterson, T. Phillips, H. Pitt, C. Popps, A. Rand, J. Reilly, R. Rennie, D. Rice, C. Richmond, C. A. Ricketts, J. A. Rider, C. Roberts, G. Robertson, P. Robertson, Mrs. .. Ross, W. Rounce, A. Scott, J. W. Seckles, R. Shanagan, P. Sharp, A. Suva, G. Sims, P. Simmons, B. Skelton, H. J. Smallwood, C. Smith, F. Smith, J. M. Smith-Palmer, 0. Smith, W. Stenson, F. Stephens, H. Sullivan, W. Mokoia, s.s. Tarawera, s.s. Niwaru, s.s. Tarawera, s.s. Endeavour, auxiliary schoone Tarawera, s.s. Storm, s.s. Takapuna, s.s. Rarawa, s.s. Rakaia, s.s. Ngapuhi, s.s. Oreti, s.s. Chelmsford, s.s. Taviuni, s.s. Rakaia, s.s. Mangapapa, s.s. Wakanui, s.s. Canopus, s.s. Frank Guy, schooner Rimu, s.s. Delphic, s.s. Torgauten, s.s. Kini, s.s. Rakaia, s.s. ... Rimu, scow Wooton, s.s. Wakatu, s.s. Waihi, s.s. Manuka, s.s. Rotomahana, s.s. Wai-iti, s.s. Measles Aneurism Injured hand Appendicitis Injured shoulder ,, foot Pleurisy Poisoned foot Swollen neck Effect of gas-fumes Injured fingers .. ,, internally „ finger Severe cold Poisoned hand Bad eye Internal complaint Pneumonia (fatal) Strained heart Injured leg Pleurisy Scalded Loss of finger Injured leg Effect of gas-fumes Injured side „ fingers Pleurisy Broken rib Severe cold Loss of finger Stomach trouble Swanson, A. J. .. Syme, H. Taft, J... Teixeira, D. Teffler, H. R. Ysabel, schooner Victoria, s.s. Canopus, s.s. Aupouri Warrimoo, s.s. Crushed finger Injured wrist Sprained foot Injured internally Diphtheria Thomson, J. Thomson, T. Udall, J. Walsh, D. Walsh, D. Walter, J. A. Watkins, E. White, G. White, T. Will, A. Williams. 0. Willis, C. Wilson, F Winch, J. Wyatt, J. Emma Sims, auxiliary ketch Queen of the South, s.s. Canopus, s.s. Pareora, s.s. Himitangi, s.s. Poherua, s.s. Elizabeth Graham, barque .. Seagull, scow Ngapuhi, s.s. Victoria, s.s. Ripple, s.s. Waitangi, s.s. Clansman, s.s. Matatua, s.s. Rakaia, s.s. Injured hand „ finger Influenza Bruised ankle Injured finger Bruised arm Broken leg Injured back „ ankle Taken ill and sent to hospital Sprained ankle Injured groin ,, head Broken jaw Effect of gas-fumes 6 4 4 9 8 9 19 2 0 10 0 0 10 18 6 21 15 0 13 11 10 20 8 10 10 9 8 16 18 0 19 14 10 6 8 6 7 9 4 24 18 0 Total £2,623 16 7

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Return of Certificates of Service as Masters issued during the year ended 31st March, 1907

Name of Person. Class of Certificate. Date of Issue. No. William Robert McKinstry Mikel Wiknrann Walter Eastick Michael Moore Philip Henry Jenkins Thomas Munro Joseph O'Connell John Young Louis Patterson Joseph Hay Anderson Edward Parris Hugh Kasper George Samuel Lapwood Peter Nelson Henry Augustus Kasper William Brown Thomas William Lapwood Stephen Thomas Wells Ernest Athole Edgcumbe Thomas Bowden .. .. ... William James Lloydd George Adam Blackweh Joseph Hodgson Henry Vanderspeck Richard (Jill Tregrdga Thomas Edlington Gustav Mitchell Burnard David Hugh Evans John Ware Henry Francis Cook William Westrupp William Robert Newton Peter Christensen Henricksen James McCormick John Bowden Alfred Henry Lapwood Thomas Donovan John Osborn Ewing James Williamson Joseph Charles Wade Richard Organ Alfred Edward Hill Frank Wilson Pope Thomas David Wells John Wilson Brownlee Gabriel Gabrielsen George Henry Reeves Thomas Reeves George Peter Wilhams Joseph Williams Arthur Manuel Smith William John Tregidga John Leonard Athfield Edward Rytfel Harry G. Wilkinson John Kidson John Wyman Charles Ernest Scully Henry Archibald Going James Cullen Wilhams George White Frederick Mitchell Stanaway John H. Read Harry Wade William Reed Edward Louis Reed William Adams William Ysker Cuthbert Leathart Ernest Sutton Chatfield John Campbell Mclnnes Thomas Scott Wallace Thomas Webber Alfred Henry Morgan George Adams Edward Harrison Olaf Peterson Thomas Higham .. .. ... William Robert Elvin Pontus Albion Poison Percival Bernard Berndtson 1906. 20 April 2760 2761 2762 2763 2764 2765 2766 2767 2768 2769 2770 2771 2772 2773 2774 2775 2776 2777 2778 2779 2780 2781 2782 2783 2784 2785 2786 2787 2788 2789 2790 2791 2792 2793 2794 2795 2796 2797 2798 2799 2800 2801 2802 2803 2804 2805 2806 2807 2808 2809 2810 2811 2812 2812A 2813 2814 2815 2816 2817 2818 2819 2820 2821 2822 2823 2824 2825 2826 2827 2828 2829 2830 2831 2832 2833 2834 2835 2836 2837g 2838 2839 kj Restricted rap Home trade Restricted „ »» • * » ■ ■ Restricted Home trade Restricted ,, ,, . . . • it »» »» »» * Withdrawn. Certificate of coi rpeteucy since issued, 22nd Nove imber.

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Name of Person. Class of Certificate. Date of Issue. No. Henry Kerby William Edward Lowndes John Dean Albert Hansen William Sandin Archibald MeCallum Daniel Holland George Edgar Fields Herbert Arbon Couldrey Samuel Phipps Joseph Hoye Alfred Charles Wilhams John Michael Owen .. ■ .. Arthur George Robinson Mark Jackson Hargrave Christian Steffensen Charles Matheson Henry William Matheson Henry Kenton Robert Sutherland William Anderson .. .. - Michael Royal John Joseph RicKhard Doyle William Sherlock John Thomas Williams William Findlay Frederick William Grieken Peter Millett William Ward James Heileson Frederick George Wootton George Henry Barry John Thomas McWilhams Thomas Robert Williams Edwin James Winter Thomas William Nalder John Ross Wiremu Ututaonga Frank Allen Leonard Sydney Irving James Sutherland William McKay Francesca Travers Thomas Steadman Fletcher William Clapham Mountain George Howe Cook William Thomas Chant William Otto William Henry Cook George Nathaniel Wastrupp Robert Wares Matthew Walsh Henry Berg Thomas George Nicol Richard Cox George Manson Burfield Galland Andrew Marshall Somerville Lang .. John Johnson Albert Thomas George Dahl Bronlund Abraham Peter Bronlund John Eraser Herbert Thomas Sergeant Charles Anderson Alexander Bailey William Ralph Howell Henry Chapman James Stephens Henry Smith Hall John Wilhams George Wilkinson Edward Roderique Ernest Jurss Thomas Bradshaw Thomas Wheeler John Urban Smith George West Francis Oscar Lindquist Sylvester M. Cotter Carl Furstenberg Yunge James Mort Henry Cross Charles Goomes Restricted j I 1906. 20 April 2912 2841 2842 2843 2844 2845 2846 2847 2848 2849 2850 2851 2852 2853 2854 2855 2856 2857 2858 2859 2860 2861 2862 2863 2864 2865 2866 2867 2868 2869 2870 2871 2872 2873 2874 2875 2876 2877 2878 2879 2880 2881 2882 2883 2884 2885 2886 2887 2888 2889 2890 2891 2892 2893 2894 2895 2896 2897 2898 2899 2900 2901 2902 2903 2904 2905 2906 2907 2908 2909 2910 2911 2840 2913 2914 2915 2916 2918 2919 2920 2921 2923 2925 ti », • • »» >> ■ • >> ■ • Home trade .. Restricted " I »> • ■ »J »> • • »> • ■ a »> »» • ■ tt »» • • », • • ft

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Name of Person. Class of Certificate. Date of Issue. No. Restricted 1906. 20 April 2926 2927 2928 2929 2930 2931 2932 2933 2934 2935 2936 2937 2938 2939 2940 2941 2942 2943 2944 2945 2946 2947 2948 2949 2950 2951 2952 2953 2954 2955 .2956 2957 2958 2960 2961 2962 2963 2964 2965 2966 2967 2968 2969 2970 2971 2972 2973 2974 2976 2977 2978 2979 2980 2981 2982 2983 2984 2985 2986 2987 2988 2989 2990 2991 2992 2993 2994 2995 2996 2997 2998 2999 3000 3001 3002 3003 3004 3005 3006 3007 3008 3009 3010 William Spencer George Couper George Newton Ben Thomas Johnson Thomas Bragg John Bragg Alfred Towner Walter McNeil Clare Joseph Newton William McKenzie Samuel Austin Smith Lawrence Garrick James Dawson John Wesley George Fife Matthew Ericksen Wrig Newton Julius Jensen Frederick John Newsham West Henry Hansen Carl Smith William Alexander Philips .. Joseph A. Smith William Johnson Walter Douglas Joss John Is»ac Franklyn Nixey John William Tumarrama .. Louis Robert Arthur Henry Rouse Samson John Salamonson . . William Drake John Alexander Leask Henry Rita Charles Brown James McLellan .. Robert Frederick Bragg John Holland Mabille Wood William Henry Meddar John Alfred Hansen George Cross Joshua Lyes Carroll Christian Hansen .. James Joseph Harrold William Rolton Andrew Reitmann Arthur Morgan John Gray William Daniel Payne William Henry Fitzsimmons George Roden .. - .. Harold Owen Hayward Joseph Pitoni Eugenio Pitoni James John Gerrrsh William Eraser McCallunr .. Elijah Targett Angelo Santoro Niccolas Bentzon Guss Reitman James Leach Charles Vieri William James Donald Matheson James Lidgard Roy Huxley Frederick Jackson Rasario Scibilra Francis George Baker Mate Franetovich Edward Frederick Henry Craney Charles Nelson Orr Shepherd Thorvold August Johnson .. William Arthur Reddish Thomas Penno Duncan Murphy Albert George Patterson George Bennett Charles Rask Albert Julian White Frank Walter Robinson George Arthur Howe t* a ti a tt it it tt it tt a >j a 21 May ** 29 „ 30 „ 1 Juno 1 ,. tt it )» it tt it tt 6 „ it )» J» tt ti 9 „ ti tt ti a it tt ti »» 15 „ a 2f „ »» »» tt It tt

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iame ol 'erson. lass o: Certificate. Date of Issue. No. John Jamieson Alexander Joass George Lomas] Charles Simich Henry Bailey George Ollson Hugh Brown Charles Smith William James Lambert Charles Rolton Charles Walter TaylorVictor OliverJohn Richard Preeoe William Masefield Channon George Henry Cox Charles Humphries Alfred Mynn Bishop William Oliver Caldwell Charles Norman George McLean Thomas Madigan William TannerWilliam Jonathan Scott Frank Harrison Frederick Oliver Jean Marie Paitry Francis James Kirk Karlo Jugovitch Albert Sandford, jun, John Joseph Downes William Reid William James Bennett Albert Bray Charles McCarthy William Edwardes Thomas George Knox Henry Gallagher Frank White William Shepherd Joseph Cross Alexander Reid William Joass Frederick Morgan Joseph Winter James Staxihouse Peter Harold Lorenzo Patterson John Gallagher John Edward Reid William Reitmann George Carey William Barker William Henry Pernio John Smith David Simmons James Philip Bennett Alfred William Chapman .. Edward Clark Harry Williams George Edward King Johan Alexander Swanson .. James McEwan Ernest Charles Zachan Mark Nasanovich Joseph Gallagher Peter Malatios Arthur Berridge William Humphries John Fine McNabb Thomas Wade William Ballantyne Joseph Waterreus.. Henry Ohio Ivey William Stephens William Johnson Hicks James Henry Colquhoun .. James Adam Charles Frederick Rolton .. George Couldrey George Arthur Dix John Thomas Alexander Giles Richard Charles Elliott James Linton ... ' * I Restricted fl906. £26 June 3011 3012 3013 3014 3015 3016 3017 3018 3019 3020 3021 3022 3023 3023a 3024 3025 3020 3027 3028 3029 3030 3031 3032 3033 3034 3035 3036 3037 3038 3039 3040 3041 3042 3043 3044 3045 3046 3047 3048 3049 3050 3051 3052 3053 3054 3055 3056 3057 3058 3059 3060 3061 3062 3063 3064 3065 3066 3067 3068 3069 3070 3071 3072 3073 3074 3075 3076 3077 3078 3079 3080 3081 3082 3083 3084 3085 3086 3087 3088 3089 3090 3091 3092 2 July 7 „ 9 „ »J 13 „ 14 „ 19 „ 21 „ 23 „ 24 „ 26 „ *?

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Name of Person. Class of Certificate. Date of Issue. No. Restricted 1906. 1 August 3093 3094 3095 3096 3097 3098 3100 3101 3102 3103 3104 3105 3106 3107 3108 3109 3110 3111 3112 3113 3114 3115 3116 3117 3118 3119 3120 3121 3122 3123 3124 3125 31211 3127 Romolo Scoponioh George Daniel Constable .. John Sweeney George Thomas Shoebridge Thomas Wills William James Barnes Montague Garnant Joseph Gorman William Robert Huff Augustine Lomey Jacob Valvoy Thomas George Walker Andrew Manfred McMahon James Lambert Henry James Simmons James Howard Wills Archibald Rykers Thomas Frederick Marston Arthur Raymond Frost Adam Albert Dawson Clarke Paikea David Paenganui George Henry Bennett, junior Joseph Loundes Arthur Francis Leader James Stewart John Griffith Anton Middendorf James Barnes William Hawes Isaac Hunt John Braslau Robert Richard White Joseph Tonge tt >> »» ,, >> ,» tt tt »> 3 „ ») »> 4 „ tt 14 „ 4 „ II tt II »> 7 „ 1907. 5 January 3128 3129 Nils Trylsson Nicholas Ketteho J) Peter Louie Con Marquis Peter Stereous Nicholas Kontos Peter Morlato Thomas Ross Andrew Hana Thomas J. Cook Richard Cook William Thomas Hansen .. Robert Wyles Farquhar Paul Julien Paitry John Grogan Charles William White Richard Gibb Lewis Gibb Daniel Barach Colin Campbell Norris Christian Jorgensen Eugenio Bedogni »» tl tt 1906. 18 October 1907. 5 January 1906. 10 September .. 12 December 18 October 9 August 10 „ 17 „ 3130 3131 3132 3133 3134 3135 3136 3138 3139 3140 3141 3142 3143 3144 3145 3146 3147 3148 3149 3150 tt tt It »> tt )) ,, 20 „ 29 „ 3 September .. 4 „ 12 „ 5 October 29 „ 13 „ 6 December 1907. 1 March Louis Francis J. P. De Farelle t. 3151

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Return of Certificates of Service as Engineers issued during the Year ended 31st March, 1907

Return of Licenses as Colonial Pilots issued in pursuance of Section 190 of "The Shipping and Seamen Act, 1903," during the Year ended 31st March, 1907.

Return of Licensed Adjusters of Compasses in New Zealand.

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Name of Person. Class of Certificate. Date of Issue. No. George Coupar .. Joseph Anson Smith Robert Andrew Georgeson .. Edward Roderigue William Phillips Joseph Burns William Fitzpatrick Peter Peterson .. William Bowers John McAUan Eadie Ebenezer Johnson William Burnett Jones Thomas Shepard Robert Preston Thomas Bragg Carl Furstenberg Yunge Thomas Bradshaw Peter Goomes Richard Hugh Dixon Thomas Fordham George Henry Preston Steam fishing-vessel a 1906. 3 July 4 „ 11 „ 4 „ 1048 1049 1050 1051 1052 1053 1054 1055 1056 1057 1058 1060 1061 1062 1065 1066 1067 1068 1069 1070 1071 tt Oil-engine vessel tt Steam vessel .. ti tt • • tt it • • Oil-engine vessel tt tt t* Steam vessel .. 7 „ 26 „ Oil-engine vessel 30 ,. it 3 August tt a 4 „ ti Alfred Ernest Aaron Fear .. tt 10 „ 1907. 4 January 1072

No. of License. Date of Issue. Name of Licensee. Port of Residence. Date of Expiry of License. 36 37 38 39 40 11 Aug., 3 April, 17 Dec., 28 , 19 Feb., 1906 Hugh Paterson .. John Grant „ Edward Wheeler .. Archibald Kennedy 1907 Charles Mo Arthur.. .. Dunedin .. Onehunga .. Wellington I .. 11 Aug., .. 3 April .. 12 Aug., .. 21 Dec, .. 18 Feb., 1907. * 1908.

Date of Issue. Name of Licensee. Address. 9 April, 1896 15 . 5 May, 11 Dec, 27 April, 1897 27 May, 27 July, 1 Sept., 13 Aug., 1898 26 April, 1899 26 June, 1900 27 July, 27 Nov., 27 March, 1903 19 Oct., 1 Nov., 1906 6 Feb., 1907 Frederick Macbeth Robert Strang George Urquhart Thomson .. William Bendall Frederick William Cox Thomas Fernandez Robert Hatchwell Arthur G. Gifford Herbert John Richardson Robert Heddleston Neville Charles Frederick Sundstrum John Adamson Thomas Basire George Samuel Hooper John McLennon McKenzie .. Frederick Pryce Evans David Todd Dunedin. u Wellington. Nelson. Auckland. Lyttelton. Wellington. Dunedin. Auckland. Port Chalmers. Wellington. Dunedin.

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Return of Masters, Mates, and Engineers to whom Certificates of Competency were issued during the Year ended 31st March, 1907.

Name of Person. Rank. Class of Certificate. Date of Issue. I No. William Doon Angus Murdoch Kenneth McGregor Hubert James Bridgen Henry Evelyn Howard Sandeman David Cromarty Thompson Alexander Reginald Pryde George Brotherton Morgan Thomas Henry Ellis Lane Alexander James Rowntree Barr .. Thomas Carmichael William Knowles William Gustav Deily William Donaldson Cameron Huntley Dryden William Sutton Gordon John Christian Robert Sinclair John Henry Dray Frederick Stanley Wainhouse Thomas James Skye William Percival Collis Herbert Ookenden John Bruoe William Nicholls Richard Christopher Cornwall Dyason John Kemp Mitchell Alexander Coe Smith William Bernard Robertson Robert James Underdown William Whiteford Henry Claydon Alfred William Drew Geoffrey William Airey William Robert Allen William Wilkinson Wood Hugh Hosking Williams Andrew Joseph Lockie Leonard Robertson Herbert Hogan Alfred Herbert Woodnutt Richard Garsdale Holmes William Kerian Morris Richard Gibson Axel Philip Lantz John Henry Nelson William Edward Barnes Richard Hart Robert John Hay Alfred Joseph Tointon Karl Oscar George Brinok Anton Johan Holm Hugh McDermit Hans Peter Sjolander Olson Harry Alexander Newmark Eversley Albert John Eden Axel McKinnon Frank Forbes Lowndes Henry Williams Gustav Herman Peterson Adolphus Parris Alexander Watchlin Henry Joseph Trewin John Connor Thomas Forsyth Oliver Frederick Mclntyre Desmonde Ryall Probert Nathaniel Morgan James Gilford Tait .. Thomas Matheson Jackson Robert Charles Quinn .. ... Thomas Henderson .. Hemen Walter Vile .. Frank Ship .. .. '.. " Henry Thomas Hart .. John Rosa .. .. ' Charles Staniland West .. Robert Pugh .. .. Bert Dean .. .. William Baker .. .. Owen Jones .. .. Henry Hermon Corleison .. '•' William Sutherland William Anderson Ivan Vasta John Benjamin Charles Dore Second mate Master, steam First mate „ steam .. Second mate * • • First mate Master First mate Master Second mate Master Second mate First mate Second mate First mate Master Second mate First mate Second mate FirBt mate Second mate Master Second mate Master First mate Second mate First mate Mate Master Mate Foreign trade Home trade 6 April, 1906 .. 11 „ „ •• 26 , „ .. 30 May, „ .. 29 June, 5 July, 2 Aug., „ .. 6 „ „ .. 9 „ 28 . „ .. 23 , „ .. 30 , „ .. 4 Sept., „ .. 6 „ „ .. 19 „ „ .. 28 „ „ .. 28 „ „ .. 4 Oct., „ .. 4 » „ .. 18 „ „ .. 20 „ „ .. 30 „ „ .. 7 Nov., „ .. 30 Oct., „ .. 3 Dec, „ .. 3 „ „ .. 13 „ „ .. 29 2 Jan., 1907 .. 28 „ „ .. 30 „ „ .. 4 Feb., „ .. 8 „ „ .. 8 „ „ .. 20 , „ .. 1 March, „ 8 „ „ .. 14 „ „ .. 22 „ „ .. 23 „ „ .. 28 „ „ .. 3 April, 1906 .. 11 „ „ ■■ 20 „ „ .. 3 May, „ .. 4 „ „ .. 11 „ „ .. 11 „ „ ■• 11 „ „ ■■ 31 „ „ .. 5 July, 2 Aug., „ .. 16 „ „ .. 25 „ „ .. 30 „ „ .. 30 „ „ .. 30 „ „ .. 31 „ ., .. 5 Sept., „ .. 6 „ „ .. 26 „ „ .. 9 Oct., „ .. 30 „ „ .. INov 16 „ 3 Dec, „ .. 8 „ „ .. 15 „ „ .. 30 Jan., 1907 .. 20 Feb., „ .. 20 „ „ .. 4 March „ 5 „ „ .. 20 . „ .. 20 April, 1906 .. 20 „ 23 May, „ .. 31 „ 31 „ „ .. 6 June, 14 „ „' .. 26 „ 26 „ „ .. 27 „ „ .. 12 July, „ .. 1003 1004 1005 942 1006 931 1007 1008 1009 967 983 798 1010 943 981 913 1011 1012 903 1013 1014 1015 1017 1016 959 1018 1019 984 1020 979 1021 957 1022 956 1023 929 953 986 1024 1025 978 5565 5513 5565 5567 5541 5568 5531 5528 5538 5569 5520 5570 5571 5507 5572 5573 5574 5575 5510 5576 5577 5524 5578 5579 5556 5580 5581 5582 5583 5584 5554 5585 5586 3435 3436 3437 3438 3439 3440 3441 3442 3443 3444 3445 Master Mate Master Mate Master Mate Master Mate Master Mate Master .. Mate .. First mate Master .. First mate Master Mate .. Master ' .. River trade

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Name of Person. Eank. Class of Certificate. Date of Issue. No. William Jago Glover Rudolph Schultze William Fincher Coutts William Mikkelson William Thomas Hooker Hans Peter Sjolander Olson Bertram Beighton McKenzie John Hamilton Joseph Joss Frank Forbes Lowndes John Penk Basil Wdliam Henning George Bennett Lionel Thomas Kitohing Harold Peace White Dudley Yate Fosbroke Robert Alexander McDonald Thomas George Dare William David Ruthe Charles Absolam Spencer William Francis Sandin Herbert Arbon Couldrey Philip Henry Jenkins Thomas Joseph Bogue Joseph William Tarry Gregory George Norris Douglas William Edward Henry Samuel Lowther William Harrison Thomas Edward Nixon Alfred Keane John Joseph Dromgool Richard Harold Newsham Andrew Craig Robert Drysdale Jack Isaao Harold Plimmer Augustus William Cameron Macdonald Alexander Inverarity Harry Francis Blaokie Frederick William Howell Davidson Laurence Godfrey Tuke Albert Walker Arthur Charles Carman John Stewart Henry Andrew Bower Arthur Russell Scott William Walter Spargo Andrew Smart Young Richard George Mackay Allen Leslie Gatland Louis Emanuel Cassrells David Theophilus Gilmour Thomas Douglas Milne .. Samuel Joseph Hodge John Hesp Burn Edgar William Andrews Herbert Gillespie Macniel Thomas John Rothe Cyril Hordern Macgeorge Cecil Willie Croll William Wood Wilson George Timms Eric David Warren Riohard John Leslie Bromley George Sydney Connor Andrew Stirling Forrester Sidney Black Crawford Charles Adam Michael Cunningham John Hamilton MoLean David William Shields Ross John Sydney Whittaker Allan Hugh Hunter James McBeath Calder Charles William Thomson Stanley William Max Collis Leonard Spencer Taylor Edward Wimperis Joachim Cecil Edwin Bryant James Arthur Brown James Reginald Armstrong Black .. William Frederick Cameron Gordon Maston Rennie Walter George Fraser Stephen Collier John Athol Niool I Master u . . . . 3rd-class engineer .. lst-olass engineer .. 3rd-c.ass engineer .. lst-class engineer .. 2nd-olass engineer.. 3rd-olass engineer .. lst-class engineer .. 3rd-olass engineer .. River trade Foreign trade ". 12 July, 1906 .. 12 , . .. 27 , , ".. 27 „ „ .. 9 Aug., . .. 16 „ „ .. 16 , „ .. 28 „ „ .. 28 . „ .. 31 „ , ,. 31 „ „ .. 5 Sept., „ 6 „ „ .. 6 „ „ .. 11 „ „ .. 11 . . .. u .i „ .. 11 . „ .-. 4 Oct., „ .. 16 „ „ .. 16 „ , - .. 16 . „ .. 23 14 Nov., "„ '.'. 14 , „ .. 8 Dec, „ .. 13 „ » .. 16 Jan., 1907 .. 28 , , ... 4 March, „ 14 „ „ .. 22 „ „ .. 6 April, 1906 .. 11 „ „ .. 11 . „ .. 25 „ „ .. 27 , . .. 4 May, „ .. in „ .. 9 „ „ .. 9 . , .. 17 . „ .. 23 „ „ .. 23 „ . .. 23 , „ .. 23 „ „ .. 23 „ . .. 23 „ „ .. 23 , . .. 23 „ „ .. 23 „ . .. 14 June, „ 14 . „ .. u . • . .. 14 „ „ .. 14 „ „ .. 14 „ . .. 26 , „ .. 26 „ , .. 29 10 July, "„ '.' 10 , „ .. 10 „ , .. 10 „ „ .. 14 „ „ .. 17 „ „ .. 20 „ „ .. 27 , . .. 2 Aug., . .. 8 „ „ .. 8 . „ .. 17 ,, „ .. 17 . „ .. 17 „ „ .. 17 „ . .. 17 . „ .. 17 „ . .. 17 „ „ .. 17 , . .. 17 . , .. 17 „ „ .. 17 „ „ .. 17 „ . .. 17 . „ .. 3446 3447 3448 3449 3450 3452 3451 3453 3454 3455 3456 3457 3458 3459 3460 3461 3462 3463 3464 3465 3466 3467 3468 3469 3470 3471 3472 3473 3474 3475 3476 3477 876 878 877 879 880 881 590 674 882 883 496 884 885 886 887 888 889 890 891 892 893 896 897 898 894 895 899 900 901 902 903 904 905 906 706 907 908 908a 909 525 911 912 913 910 914 915 916 917 918 919 920 921 922" lst-class engineer .. 3rd-class engineer .. •• i 1st class engineer .. 3rd-class engineer .. lst-class engineer .. 2nd-olass engineer.. 3rd-class engineer .. lst-class engineer .. 3rd-class engineer .. lst-class engineer .. 3rd-class engineer ..

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Name of Person. Bank. Class of Certificate. Date of Issue. No. Henry Louis Reeves David William Bennie Laurence Keilan McMurrich David Wilkinson Andrew Robert Swann Cruiokshank Edwin Harold Pengelly Paul Cuthbert Graham Arthur Reginald Howe Francis Frederick Walter Robinson Henry Dustin James John Jack Percy Edmund Brewer William George Thomson William Mowatt John William Neilsen Stephen Herbert Head Thomas Corr Charles Allan Watson John Heath Johnston Arthur Lister John Hambly Froom Naylor Ernest Edward Low Henry Cecil Heays Arthur Gretton Tomkies Frederick Henry Hopkins Frank Dunlop Malcolmson Vincent Rees Earnshaw David Gilmour Stephens .. Percy Robert Hunter James Anderson John Henry Prendeville Angus Charles Mclnnes Frederick Alfred Whitaker Henry Wooles Price Thomas Carrigan Harry Mills Waygood John Peter Burns Lars Gustieff Brundall Herbert Lukins James William Atkinson Arthur Robert Parker Sydney Sellers Wilson George Blackwall Thomas Beverley Rutter John Herman Hall Holm Jack Echardt Whittem Henry Alexander Luke William Lowrie Gray Edward Kiernan.. Fred Albert Oddie William Denham Geerge Andrews William McFarland Charles Ashby Elvey .. Harry French Ashcroft Charles Alexander Kirkwood Harry Phillips Peter George Kelly Joseph Suffield Huston William Rowley Entwistle Samuel Stevens Ernest Thornley Lancaster Gerald Edwin Sampson Reginald Edward Jefferies Scott .. John Martin James Berry Adam Gibson Robert Mann Williamson Leathart Charles Frederick Bell Edward McSweeney Albert James Broad Leonard McCarthy Richard Clemens Richard John Millar William Shirras William Henderson Murdook James Somerville Philip James Kunst Robert Gilmer Slade Leslie Claude Davies Henry Paston Hewson Arthur Marychurch Thomas Stout Maogregor William Richard Lookwood William Thwaites 3rd-class engineer .. H ■ ■ lst-class engineer .. 3rd-class engineer.. * • • 2nd-class engineer .. 3rd-class engineer .. lst-class engineer .. 3rd-class engineer .. 2nd-class engineer.. 3rd-olass engineer.. n • ■ 2nd-class engineer.. 3rd-class engineer .. 2nd-class engineer.. 3rd-cla8S engineer .. H • * 2nd-olass engineer.. 3rd-class engineer .. Foreign trade tt • . 17 Aug., 1906 .. 28 „ „ .. 6 Sept., , .. 18 „ „ .. 20 „ „ .. 20 „ „ .. 20 „ „ .. 20 . „ .. 20 „ „ .. 20 „ „ .. 20 „ „ .. 20 „ „ .. 21 „ . .. 4 Oct., , .. i „ „ ■■ i „ . .. 4 „ , ".. 4 „ „ .. 8 , „ .. 9 „ „ .. 1 Nov., „ .. 5 . . .. 7 „ . .. 7 . . .. 7 „ „ .. 13 „ „ .. 17 Dec, „ .. 17 „ . .. 17 „ „ .. 28 „ „ .. 5 Jan., 1907 .. 28 „ , .. 28 . . .. 28 „ „ .. 7 Feb., „ .. 28 Jan., „ .. 8 Feb., „ .. 11 . , .. 11 . . ... 11 . . .. 11 ,, „ .. 11 « . ".. 5 March, „ 9 „ „ .. 9 , . .. 19 . . .. 21 „ „ .. 21 „ „ .. 11 April, 1906 .. 26 „ „ .. 30 . „ .. 28 May, „ .. 28 „ . .. 28 . . .. 14 June, „ 20 Aug., , .. 18 Sept., „ .. 18 . „ .. 4 Oct., , .. 27 „ „ .. 24 Nov., , .. 24 „ . .. 28 Jan., 1907 .. 28 „ . .. 28 . , .. 8 Feb 8 „ w .. 29 . , .. 8 March, , .. 10 July, 1906 .. 30 . „ .. 8 Aug., , .. 28 Jan., 1907 .. 8 Feb., , .. 6 April, 1906 .. 11 . . .. 11 . . .. 16 May, „ .. 16 . „ .. 19 „ . .. 26 June, „ .. 20 Aug., „ .. 18 Sept., „ .. 1 Oct., „ .. 1 . . .. 923 924 925 926 927 928 929 930 931 932 531 587 933 934 935 936 937 938 564 939 940 769 941 942 943 944 945 946 947 776 948 784 949 950 952 951 953 954 955 956 957 958 673 959 960 961 962 963 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 2031 2032 2033 2034 2035 2036 2037 2038 136 137 138 139 140 61 62 63 65 64 39 66 67 68 69 70 Engineer River-trade (Steam) n . . it . • Marine engine-driver 2nd.class oil engineer Sea-going a •. lst-olass oil engineer 2nd-olass oil engineer 1st - class oil engineer 2nd-olass oil engineer

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Return showing the Number of Masters', Mates', and Engineers' Certificates issued in New Zealand during the Year ended the 31st March, 1907, showing the Number of Successful and Unsuccessful Candidates.

Same of Person. Rank. Class of Ceriiflcate. Date of Issue. No. William Edward Plank James William Hamilton Henry Hughes William Stewart Lookhead William Munro Watt Charles Alexander Kirkwood Cecil Gladstone Downey David Bruce Murdoch John Martin Henry Kerby William Fowler Christie William Henry Edmund Fenwick.. John Thomas Fenwick- .. George Bailey Craven John McKell Brown Robert Taylor Alexander Praser McCallum Alfred Jones William MeKenzio Thompson Prancis Joseph Rambaud John Philip Artha Thomas Bishton Turley Anders Godfrey Nordlinger James Hamilton Arthur Stephen Hyde .. .. _ William Alfred Bradley Archibald John Thorniecroft Charles David Graham Francis James Norris George Leonard Gregg Richard Lionel Kemp Teasdalo George Bennett William Thomas Goldie Peter Pearson Standish Knyvett Alexander James Colquhoun Edward Prior Louis Godfrey Herbert Hunt Edward Coker Jessie Armour McKegg Erio Arthur Langley William Moffatt Reginald Edward Jefferies Scott .. Alfred William Redman William David Ruthe Charles Staniland West Robert Alexander Johnston Oliver William Walter Edward Wilson 2nd-class oil engineer lst-class oil engineer 2nd-class oil engineer Oil engineer Sea-going.. River-trade 4 Oct., 1906 .. 8 „ „ .. 9 „ , .. 1 Nov., , .. 24 , , .. 17 Dec, „ .. 28 Jan., 1907 .. 28 , „ .. 20 Feb., , .. 2 April, 1906 .. 11 „ . .. 25 „ „ .. 25 , „ .. 16 May, , .. 25 „ „ .. 25 „ „ .. 25 „ „ .. 25 „ „ .. 25 , „ .. 25 „ , .. 25 „ 26 . „ .. 25 „ „ .. 25 „ „ .. 14 June 20 „ „ .. 2 Aug., „ .. 2 „ „ .. 20 „ ' „ .. 20 „ „ .. 20 „ „ .. 18 Sept 18 . „ .. 18 „ „ .. 18 „ „ .. 18 „ , .. 18 , . .. 18 „ „ .. 18 „ „ .. 8 Nov., „ .. 20 Dec, „ .. 28 Jan., 1907 .. 28 „ „ .. 28 „ „ .. 28 , „ .. 28 „ „ .. 28 . „ .. 28 „ „ .. 8 Feb., „ .. 29 Dec, „ .. 71 72 78 74 75 76 77 7H 79 50 51 52 58 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 02 (13 fit 63 66 (17 68 69 70 71 72 78 74 75 70 77 78 7!) 80 81 82 8:1 84 85 86 87 88 89 1 Axel Nilsson Master Fishing-boat up to 5 tons Fi shing-boat or cargo-vessel under 25-tons 19 May, , .. William Frederick Mayenberg John Macallan Eadie George Peter Williams William Edward Allen Charles Henry Gibson 28 Aug., „ .. 28 Sept., , .. 22 Nov., „ .. 14 March, 1907 .. 14 Nov., 1906 .. V, 7 8 9 2 Sailing-vessel, restricted limits

Auckland. illington. L; 'ttelti in. inedi in. Othi jrPL ices. 'otali Class of Certificate. ■o _• <n ~ H= CS tS O Ph I h H 1 3 31 Ph (8 O fe EH s B Ph d '3 "3 o EH s eg Ph g "3 o 00 a? a Ph id 5 "a o H id '3 o H Foreign - going masters and mates Home-trade masters and mates River-steamer masters Sea-going engineers (steam).. (other mechanical power than steam) River-steamer engineers River engineers (other mechanical power than steam) Marine-engine drivers Master, fishing-boat or cargovessel up to 25 tons register Master, fishing-boat up to 5 tons register Master, sailing vessel, restricted limits 22 38 55 2 9 11 8 9 17 9 7 16 41 58 99 ; 9 27 25 11 12 i 1 21 31 26 11 16 11 25 2 16 2 9 32 13 34 2 4 2 8 1 8 5 2 11 4 2 30 3 1 1 1 5 3 31 3 1 18 4 "l 1 20 4 33 43 101 20 30 7 21 63 50 122 20 12 27 5 3 17 30 5 1 4 9 1 1 1 2 1 7 1 2 7 2 5 1 1 3 6 21 40 12 4 33 44 1 2 1 1 2 3 2 2 1 1 3 3 i 1 2 2 5 5 2 2 7 7 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 Totals .. 137 60 197 67 11 27 9 311 137 448 43 110 23 14 37 57 68 86

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Return showing the Number of Seamen engaged and discharged in the Foreign and Intercolonial Trade, the Home Trade, and within restricted Limits respectively, together with the Amount of Fees received for the same, during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1907.

Engagements and Discharges in Foreign Trade. Engagements and Discharges in Home Trade. Engagements and Dischi Restricted .Limits larges for :s. Total Engagements. Total Discharges. Grand Totals. Port. °ad CD CD Fees a rf M received. a cd a 53 o d a ca a CD CD 3CG cd 53 S Fees received. }m ® CD •SIS' 55 ■HI -J C <D U CD Ofi Fees S S rf Fees received. a <°.a received. 302 co °ad © g Fees h rf sc received. 300 CD 55 U <D QD CD 3 |H Si "J rf a &S1 53 3 Fees received. a SB 55 Fees received. o . . a r, CD si 302 55 Fees received. ,, a U cd Fees received. Auckland Dunedin and Port Chalmers Greymouth Hokianga Hokitika Invercargill Kaipara Lyttelton Napier Nelson New Plymouth Oamaru.. Patea Picton Poverty Bay Russell Tauranga Thames.. Timaru Wairau Waitara Wanganui Wellington Westport 1,615 2,253 32 14 £ s. d. 117 12 6 167 2 6 ! 2 8 0 110 1,492 2,465 15 7 £ s. d. 107 0 6 180 8 0 12 6 0 10 6 3,037 ! 1,527 : 252 5 26 95 106 1,532 255 795 4 5 67 99 207 j £ s. d. 201 9 0 101 9 6 18 3 0 0 7 6 16 0 7 3 0 6 15 0 1115 3 6 12 1 6 53 5 6 0 6 0 0 7 6 4 9 6 6 18 6 13 6 0 3,066 : 1,411 185 25 69 98 1,476 : 249 729 8 2 60 101 195 £ s. d. 196 0 0 94 7 6 13 2 6 0 16 14 6 5 3 6 6 3 0 110 14 6 11 11 0 48 6 6 0 12 0 0 3 0 4 10 0 6 18 6 12 13 0 626 I £ s. d. 38 8 0 610 £ s. d. 35 11 0 5,278 3,780 284 19 26 199 200 2,323 334 810 4 14 67 100 222 £ s. d. 357 9 6 268 12 0 20 11 0 18 6 16 0 15 0 0 13 16 0 174 9 6 17 7 6 54 3 6 0 6 0 110 4 9 6 7 0 0 14 8 6 5,168 3,876 200 8 25 112 178 2,095 324 736 8 12 60 101 206 £ s. d. 338 11 6 : 274 15 6 14 5 0 0 12 0 14 6 8 8 0 12 3 0 157 3 6 16 2 0 48 17 0 0 12 0 0 18 0 4 10 0 6 18 6 13 9 6 10,446 7,656 484 27 51 311 378 4,418 658 1,546 12 26 127 201 428 £ s. d. 696 1 0 543 7 6 34 16 0 2 0 6 2 10 6 23 8 0 25 19 0 331 13 0 33 9 6 103 0 6 0 18 0 1 19 0 8 19 6 13 18 6 27 18 0 104 94 781 47 8 7 17 0 7 10 58 11 0 3 3 0 0 12 0 43 60 609 : 43 5 3 4 6 6 0 0 45 14 0 2 8 0 0 7 6 10 32 7 0 15 0 2 3 0 0 6 0 10 32 2 0 15 0 2 3 0 0 3 0 "9 0 13 6 'io 0 15 0 "l 15 0 16 12 6 ii ■• 0 16 6 *6 22 0 9 0 1 13 0 6 10 0 9 0 0 15 0 1 6 168 28 24 227 3,040 223 I 0 16 0 9 0 12 11 6 2 2 0 1 16 6 14 7 0 il82 15 0 I 15 19 6 1 6 136 35 26 209 3,179 191 0 16 0 7 3 10 3 6 2 12 6 2 0 0 13 3 0 200 17 6 13 11 6 14 1 i 0 *13 0 19 6 1 12 190 28 38 236 4,563 337 0 16 0 18 0 14 4 6 2 2 0 2 17 6 15 0 6 277 11 0 24 10 6 1 12 146 35 39 212 4,521 261 0 16 0 16 3 10 18 6 2 12 6 2 19 6 13 4 6 283 5 0 18 16 6 2 24 336 63 77 448 9,084 598 0 3 0 1 14 3 25 3 0 4 14 6 5 17 0 28 5 0 560 16 0 43 7 0 9 1,523 114 0 13 6 94 16 0 8 11 0 3 1,342 70 0 16 82 7 6 5 5 0 Totals 6,647 473 8 0 6,211 437 5 0 11,729 772 13 0 11,458 I !754 7 9 689 42 13 0 667 39 11 6 19,065 1,288 14 0 ,18,336 1,231 4 3 37,401 2,519 18 3

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Return of Steamers and Oil-engine Vessels to which Certificates of Survey were issued in New Zealand during the Year ended 31st March, 1907.

Name of Vessel. CD cf: tats 'A S O EH shit;** is! t> d u 0 r. ® ' a o JH d o> o S J2 _ iffl-S rtS « a ■pp ° OfflO r. u CD o . 5 a 3 «a CD rf rf " «■" a ° HH Nature of Bngiues. Nature of Propeller. Class of Certificate. Minimum Ni ber of follow Classes of C Law require be carried. umving Jrew ;s to Remarks. CD £ 03 CD a u r\ w JH CD if rf CD u O Admiral.. Advance Advanoe Ahuriri Akaroa Albany •Albatross Alexander Alice Anna Antelope Antrim Aotea Aorere Apanui Arahura Ariel 82 40 31 43 8 111 185 28 8 30 17 28 8 37J 72 34 10 24 17 33 16J 28 147 2J Compound Non-condensing Oil-engines Compound Screw River Extended river Home trade .. Extreme river Home trade .. River 2 2 2 1 1 98 Non-condensing Compound 307 Twin-sorew Screw Home trade .. River Home trade .. "i 'a 21 14 35 157 49 135 771 13 High-pressure .. Oil-engines 1 1 First survey. Fishing-vessel. Condensing Compound River Extended river Home trade .. 2 4 7 1 1 2 6 70 187 1,726 Triple-expansion First N.Z. survey. Twin-screw Screw 3 *8 Oil-engines High-pressure Triple-expansion River Foreign trade Home trade .. River Home trade .. First survey; fish-ing-vessel. .First survey. First N.Z. survey. Atom Atua Aupauri.. Awaroa Awarua Baden Powell Baroona Beatrioe Ben Lomond Blanche.. Blenheim Bonnie Jean 1895 220 211 100 92 79 8 33 18 85 5 1 329 55 62 32 30 24 10 15 9 50 24 :2,450 410 450 ! 212 162 Condensing Compound Twin-screw Screw Paddle .. Screw Extended river '9 5 i 2 9 3 a 2 '3 '3 Since wrecked. First N.Z. survey. Fishing-vessel. > " .. 209 Non-oondensing Compound Non-oondensing Compound Oil-engines River Extended river Home trade .. '2 1 '2 First survey; fish-ing-vessel. Fishing-vessel. Bravo Britannia (A'kland) Britannia (Bluff).. Canopus Canterbury Chelmsford Clansman Claymore Cobar Colleen 13 108 18 835 5 40 24 250 24 24 90 54 40 24 Non-oondensing Oil-engines Triple-expansion Non-condensing Compound Paddle .. Screw River Home trade .. 1 1 7 Fishing-vessel. 1,167 '3 2 '3 79 379 92 57 15 64 569 295 Twin-screw Screw Extended river Home trade .. 2 5 2 1 3 3 Oil-engines River Home trade .. i First survey; fish-ing-vessel. Condor Corinna CountesB Cygnet .. Daphne Defender Despatoh - Dolly Varden Doto DuoheBS Duco Durham Eagle Echo Edina Eliza Elsie Elsie Evans Emma Sims Endeavour Endon .. •Energy .. Enterprise Erskine Express Fairy Falcon Fanny Ferro Fingal Freetrader Gael Gannet (Picton) .. Gannet (Bluff) .. 122 820 84 66 117 24 19 19 95 25 54 138 98 4 24 141 28 43 1 36 20 30 13 81 60 24 70 60 6 3 8 20 32 30 5 16 24 35 25 15 6 30 20 11 30 20 6 5 1,067 170 144 1 Compound Non-condensing Compound River Home trade .. River Home trade .. River Home trade .. Extreme limits Home trade .. Extended river River Extended river 7 2 4 1 1 'a '2 '2 1 2 'a Yacht. Fishing-vessel. ... Oil-engines Compound Triple-expansion Compound Tug. Oil-engines Non-condensing Paddle '.'. Screw Home trade .. River a First survey. Towing only. 15 6 61 54 12 15 14 98 36 33 - 48 | Oil-engines Compound Extended limits Home trade .. Extendedlimits Home trade .. 2 2 i 1 i First survey. Oil-engines Compound Extended river Home trade .. Extended limits Fishing-vessel. 108 "2 '2 Fishing-vessel. Non-condensing 55 10 22 94 55 15 18 149 Compound Oil-engines Home trade .. River Home trade .. River Extended limits a 9 First survey. 48 Stern-wheel Screw i " Non-oondensing Compound Condensing - Oil-engines First survey; fish-ing-vessel. Home trade .. i * Surveyed twice.

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Return of Steamers and Oil-engine Vessels to which Certificates of Survey were issued, &c.— continued.

Name of Vessel. I CD "de CD M CD a o EH l! Hrl O „ <D ft£Es 1 a ° E 0 mSss •§"■3? oomo rH i o . P. to g§ . n s ■aS V rf rf " d.a° Nature of Engines. Nature of Propeller. Class of Certificate. Mi] ber Cla Labe uimum Num. • of following of Crew w requires to carried. Remarks. CD 3 < a * M V, CD 5 a • a a 2 gas 6 £ O Gertie Glenelg Goldfinch Gosford Gordon Greyhound 'Hamurana Haupiri Hauroto Hawea Heathcote Heather Bell 119 156 59 75 12 30 12 50 3 88 253 104 35 12 332 288 Condensing Compound Non-oondensing Compound Twin-screw Screw Home trade .. 4 4 8 3 57 9 83 24 452 1,276 1,114 94 20 Oil-engines Non-condensing Compound River Extended river River Home trade .. River Home trade .. Foreign trade a Fishing-vessel. 493 1,241 929 6 8 7 8 3 3 '2 2 3 3 Triple expansion Compound Oil-engines Extended river Home trade .. 1 First survey; fishing-vessel. Himitangi Hinemoa Hirere Huia (Thames) .. Huia (Wellington) 'Huia (Wellington) Ida Ithaca Jane Douglas J.D.O. .. John Anderson .. John Townley Kaeo Kahu .. .. Kaituna Kaituna (Dunedin) Kamona Kanieri Kapanui Kapiti Karitane Karoro Kate Katikati Kawatiri Kawau (Auckland) Kennedy Kereru Kia Ora (Auckland) Kia Ora (Waikato) Kilmorev Kini Kiripaka Kittawa Koi Koonya Kopu Koputai Koroi 149 8 32 45 64 16 8 23 2 10 9 22 28 20 40 60 40 10 200 117 20 32 35 147 17 5 8 24 20 43 55 65 24 14 130 24 120 32 115 13 120 94 243 Compound Non-condensing Compound Non-condensing Compound Condensing Non-condensing Compound Twin-screw Screw River Extended river River Home trade .. River Extended river 4 2 69 126 'a a 12 13 75 88 36 85 147 99 6 1,246 903 115 75 80 848 52 71 193 Oil-engines ■Compound Oil-engines Triple expansion Twin-screw Sorew Home trade .. Extended river Extreme limits Extended Home trade River Foreign trade a '4 2 i a Tug and dredge. First survey. 1,063 723 162 7 6 4 3 3 2 '2 8 206 900 Compound Home trade .. Extended river Home trade .. Foreign trade Extended river a 6 a 3 a 'a First N.Z. survey. 27 Triple expansion Compound Non-condensing Condensing Non-condensing Compound 53 131 96 157 River Extended river Home trade .. 4 2 4 a First survey 187 Twin-screw 386 Oil-engines Compound Non-condensing Stern-wheel Screw River a 702 75 708 53 663 633 110 718 160 749 Triple expansion Compound Home trade .. 6 2 6 2 6 3 2 3 2 3 Triple expansion Non-oondensing Compound Quadruple expansion Oil-engines Compound Twin-sorew Single Paddle .. Extreme limits Home trade .. Extended river Home trade .. Extended river i '3 First survey. Tug. "5 490 Sorew Kotahi Kotare 9 79 18 20 130 Home trade .. 1 2 Formerly " Shirley Hassell." '21 Kotiti Kuaka Lady Barkly Little Jaok Loyalty Lyttelton Lyttelton Maheno 42 33 39 14 90 20 14 35 80 14 600 Oil-engines Compound Non-oondensing Compound Extended river *71 Home trade .. River Home trade .. Extreme river River Foreign trade *2 i Yaoht. Fishing-vessel. Tug. 68 39 175 191 Paddle .. Twin-sorew Triple-screw '2 2 a 2 3,277 r Non-oondensing Turbines 12 'i t + t 4 First N.Z. survey, turbines. Maheno Mahuta Makarora Mana (Westport).. Mana (Wellington) Manapouri Manaroa Manchester Mangaiti Mangapapa Manuka 24 11 45 51 77 1,288 78 366 60 13 13 90 25 300 24 160 6 28 357 126 1,535 156 Oil-engines Non-oondensing Compound Screw Paddle .. Screw River Extended river Home trade .. Foreign trade Home trade .. Extended river River Home trade .. Foreign trade 2 8 2 2 6 2 '3 8 Non-condensing Dredge. 87 2,784 199 4,102 Triple expansion Twin-screw a 9 6 *8 li! lurve; id twice. + Estimated 6,000. t No provision yet made for turbine steamers.

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Return of Steamers and Oil-engine Vessels to which Certificates of Survey were issued, &c. — continued.

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Name of Vessel. M £ i/. '§? « CO a o H r 5 «S *H O CD &£* ' a ° • So, n aS ■ ■h c8 w a ijcjo ■§«■-"? ° offlO S5 S E o . P. to £a «§ ■aS 2 * "CO a° KH Nature of Engines. Nature of Propeller. Class of Certificate. Mil bev ClB Lahe aimum Num- • of following ,sses of Crew w requires to carried. Kemarks. CD < CO a u E° 1 a s a a a i Manukau Manurere 45 15 34 80 Compound Quadruple expansion '.'Jil7 Non-condensing !j Triple expansion Screw Extreme limits River 2 1 Manuwai Mapourika Mararoa Mascotte (Auckl'd) Matarere Matuku May Howard Moana (Dunedin) Moana (Greymouth) Moeraki Moerangi Mokoia Motara Moturoa Mountaineer Moura .. Murihiku Muritai (Auckland) Naomi II. Napier Natone Naumai.. Nautilus Navua Ngapuhi Ngatiawa Ngunguru Nina No. 121 .. No. 222 .. No. 350 .. 94 718 1,381 55 2,414 6 2,715 16 2,154 10 66 1,247 369 133 9 48 50 29 29 1,813 299 220 68 7 394 502 488 30 130 530 3 2 4 45 372 7 357 27J 255 4 10 50 275 70 45 19 30 24 12 18 220 160 55 17 2 100 120 1,076 3,865 4,491 3,984 3,626 1,810 443 265 Non-condensing Compound <'. .. Non-condensing Oil-engines Triple expansion Non-condensing Triple expansion •Oil-engines Triple expansion Non-condensing Compound Triple expansion Stern wheel Screw Twin-screw Screw Paddle .. Twin-screw Home trade .. Foreign trade River Home trade .. Foreign trade River Foreign trade River Foreign trade River Foreign trade Home trade .. 8 2 10 li' 10 8 4 4 'a 9 '() 9 9 6 3 3 a 6 '('; 6 k "a "a 3 8 "a "a a Compound Oil engines Compound Screw Dredge. 87 Extended river Home trade .. .River Extended river a i Fishing-vessel. 2,206 663 355 Triple expansion Compound Compound Twin-screw Foreign trade Home trade .. 9 5 5 2 9 3 3 1 "a 3 First N.Z. survey. Screw River Extended river Home trade .. Twin-sorew Dredge. 528 750 5 5 8 3 'a First N.Z. survey dredge u . ■ Triple expansion Ohinemuri Ohura Opawa Oreti (Wellington) Oreti (Invercargill) Orewa Osprey Paeroa Pania Pareora Pateena Pelican Pelorus PeDguin Petone Phantom Phoenix.. Pilot (Dunedin) .. Pilot (Napier) Piraki Planet •Plucky Poherua Presto Progress Pukaki 73 34 64 117 14 37 138 46 97 355 550 1 18 517 388 18 6 27 11 10 13 29 749 26 60 18 50 3 17 70 15 11 71 250 57 12 180 82 11 5 15 13 4 8 40 128 3 50 110 120 Compound Condensing Compound Screw Twin-screw Screw Home trade .. River Home trade .. ■2 a 4 2 1 2 60 209 Lighter. 66 Non-condensing Compound Paddle '.. Screw River Extended river River Home trade .. Extended river Home trade .. *2 i FiBhing-vessei. 413 1,893 284 Triple expansion Compound Triple expansion Oil-engines Compound Triple expansion Compound Non-condensing Triple expansion Compound Non-condensing 4 6 1 3 6 3 8 Twin-screw Screw Home trade .. River Home trade .. 6 4 8 932 525 8 3 Fishing-vessel. Extended river River Extended river River Tug. 256 704 Compound Triple expansion Non-condensing Compound Quadruple expansion Compound Home trade .. "i 6 3 3 200 917 148 623 River Home trade .. '"i 6 a 3 Dredge. Purau Putiki Queen of Beauty Queen of the South Rakanoa •Rakiura (Dunedin) 38 157 9 121 1,393 81 18 60 37 40 200 35 370 195 939 125 Oil-engines Compound Triple expansion Compound Twin-screw Screw Extended river Home trade .. Extreme limits Home trade .. Foreign trade Home trade .. •■ 4 1 4 7 2 *3 2 3 2 2 3 Formerly " Rose Casey." First survey; fishing vessel. ..I Rakiura (Bluff) .. 13 ! 10 Oil-engines Rarawa Result Rimu •Ripple 460 18 144 187 140 10 95 60 1,055 Triple expansion Compound Triple expansion i IExtended river Home trade .. Foreign trade 3 8 3 6 Fishing-vessel. 459 290 *4 4 8 8 First N.Z. survey. * Surveyed twice.

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Return of Steamers and Oil-engine Vessels to which Certificates of Survey were issued, &c.— continued.

Name of Vessel. u CD CD ■a CD M a o H rin-J*. Is £ <& u ° * ® CD-r- 1 p4 CD M i *■* a ® . r2§£s W flc3a - SW-2 rj ri to 3.S ® a h.H OoWO b CD if o . a™ sS tty ■a a CD rf rfl d«H a° Nature of Engines. Nature of Propeller. Class of Certificate. Mil bet Cla Labe nimum Num- ' of following Lsees of Crew w requires to carried. Remarks. CD d S ° I a a | 2 a i ■« 'C tt •Rita Riwaka ♦Rob Roy Rosamond Rosetta 22 19 34 462 10 11 104 16 90 5 Compound screw Home trade .. River trade .. Home trade .. 2 5 1 1 1 3 Fishing-vessel. 422 First survey fishing vessel. Oil-engines •Rothesay Rotoiti (Auckland) Rotoiti (Dunedin) Rotomahana (Auckland) Rotomahana (Dunedin) Rotokohu •Rotorua Ruahine 8 630 139 915 ii 24 104 50 450 1,103 2,620 Compound Triple expansion Compound Twin-screw Screw River Home trade .. Extended river Home trade .. 1 "l 7 1 8 9 2 3 ■3 Yacht. 8 11 6 12 8 'k Oil-engines Extended river River Home trade .. i Rubi Seddon Rurahau Ruru (Auckland).. •Ruru (Napier) Savaii Scout 349 16 11 65 31 11 60 24 10 50 16 11 Triple expansion Oil-engines Compound Twin-screw Screw Extended river Home trade .. Extended river Home trade .. Extended river Home trade .. First survey; fish ing-vesBel. Dredge. Fishing-vessel. i 260 2 3 First survey. Fishing-vessel. Fishing-vessel; first survey. Condensing Oil-engines i Shamrock Sir Wm. Wallace.. 60 30 120 20 Compound Extreme limits Extended river 2 First N.Z. survey: fishing-vessel. Missionary vessel. Southern Cross .. Speedwell Squall Standard Stella Sterling Storm Stormbird Sumner Sunbeam Swan 403 31 133 9 157 26 186 137 94 117 10 60 10 90 39 70 40 35 5 1 545 243 Triple expansion Compound Oil-engines Compound Stern-wheel Screw Foreign trade River Home trade .. River Home trade .. 6 4 3 2 First survey. 227 197 292 206 4 1 4 4 2 2 3 2 Tug. a » • Oil-engines Steam rotary .. Extended river Home trade .. River i Fishing-vessel. First survey; yacht. Taieri Tainui Tainui Takapuna (Auckland) Takapuna (Dunedin) Talune .. Ta> garoa Taniwha (Auckland) Taniwha (Timaru) Tarakihi Tarawera Tarewai.. Taviuni 1,071 46 60 58 155 20 24 20 745 122 Triple expansion Non-condensing Compound Non-oondenBing Paddle .. Screw Paddle Home trade .. River Home trade .. River 7 2 3 2 ..! 472 165 1,493 Compound Screw Home trade .. 6 6 3 1,370 110 191 16 255 70 40 16 4 250 6 135 1,987 Triple expansion Compound Twin-screw Extended river 8 6 3 3 Non-oondensing Screw Dredge. 1,269 7 910 1,542 Compound Non-condensing Quadruple expan sion Non-oondensing Oil-engines Non-condensing Compound Oil-engines River Home trade .. River Foreign trade 8 G *8 .3 960 7 8 2 'a Tawera (Waikato) Tawera (Auckland) Tawera (Te Anau) Te Anau Te Waipounamu.. 44 1,028 20 8 40 25 250 24 1,245 River Extended river River Home trade .. 3 " 2 3 8 1 Tere Thistle .. Thomas King Timaru Togo •Tongariro Torgauten Toroa Traveller Tuakau.. Tuatea Tu Atu Tuhara .. Tuna (Gisborne) .. Uira Variance Victoria.. Vrvid Waiapu Waihi Waikato Waimarie (Auckland) 7 77 70 211 12 90 16 78 14 8 184 91 8 2 28 48 60 14 34 24 50 13 15 20 14 48 Oil-engines Non-condensing Compound Twin-screw Sorew Twin-screw River Extreme limits Extended river Home trade .. River •• First survey ; fishing-vessel. First survey. 2 295 4 3 Dredge. 4 197 174 i.08 494 Non-condensing Compound Triple expansion Compound Vertical Compound Oil-engines Screw Home trade 4 4 a 3 River 58 30 74 278 Home trade .. Extended river Home trade .. Extended river River Home trade .. River a 3 Twin-screw Compound Non-condensing Oil-engines Non-condensing a First survey. 19 92 6 57 63 56 159 Screw Fishing-vessel. Paddle .. Screw i 172 Oil-engines Compound Non-oondensing Compound Home trade .. Paddle .. Screw River Extended river 'a 2 • Sur ■ed twice.

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Return of Steamers and Oil-engine Vessels to which Certificates of Survey were issued, &c.— continued.

Return of Intercolonial Sailing-ships to which Survey Certificates were issued during the Year ended 31st March, 1907.

Return showing Number of Fishing-boats registered and licensed at each Port during Year ended 31st December, 1906.

Name of Vessel. w « to a o Eh »-<C*H £ ca 0 ~ ® &s * ' E ° 0).- p, P M > h pj « -|l-s ■soo-3 ¥ "■** S" 9 o K o O O M Nature of Engines. Nature of Propeller. Class of Certificate. Mini ber < Clas Law beci limum Numof following sses of Crew v requires to larried. Remarks. to ta a *h • S a I ft S 01 u a © O Waimarie (Wanganui) Wainui .. *Waione Waiora Waiotahi Waipori Wairere Wairua Wairuna Waitangi (Auckland) Waitangi (Kaipara) Waitohi Waiwera (Henley) Waiwiri.. Wakatere Wakatu.. WaEaka Warkworth Warrimoo Waverley Weka (Auokland) Weka (Napier) Westland Whakapara Whakarirc Wootton Yankee Doodle .. Young Bungaree.. 65 411 43 168 1,229 41 2,530 1 34 31 18 157 95 1,572 24 2,076 93 86 53 8 26 95 56 180 81 396 62 5 10 16 7| 140 23 280 10 490 25 27 20 64 2i 120 33 12 35 568 66 298 993 66 1,965 394 Non-condensing Compound Triple expansion Non-condensing Compound Triple expansion Compound Oil-engines Non-condensing Compound Paddle .. Screw Twin-sorew Screw Paddle .. Screw Twin-screw Screw Paddle .. Screw River Home trade .. River Home trade .. Foreign trade River Foreign trade Home trade .. River Extended river River Extended river 6 i 7 10 2 a 3 6 3 3 "2 ".3 8 '3 161 1,181 Triple expansion Oilengines Triple expansion Compound Home trade .. Foreign trade River Foreign trade Home trade .. River Home trade .. 2 7 2 3 '2 *8 3,713 105 Twin-screw 10 2 9 2 6 'a Condensing Compound Screw Paddle .. Screw Twin-screw Screw Stern-wheel Screw 2 2 1 3 449 90 630 180 Extended river Home trade .. 5 2 3 2 Tug. Yaoht. Dredge. First N.Z. survey. 47 199 Extended river Home trade .. 2 2 * Sur if the Act does not 'eyed twice. apply to steamers and oil-engii The compulsory-: sxtended-river limits tanni ng sohe< lule ■essi lis plyii ig within river and

Minimum Number of Seamen required by Law to be carried. Name of Vessel. Tons Register. Class of Certificate. Able Ordinary -r. nvB Seamen. Seamen. -""J 8 ' •Defiance Elverland Empreza Frank Guy .. , Helen Denny Hirotha James Craig .. Jessie Craig .. Onyx Pendle Hill .. St. Kilda Wai-iti Zelateur 199 361 236 191 695 499 646 653 396 222 189 690 524 Intercolonial .. 4 6 5, 4 8 7 8 8 6 5 4 8 7 i 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 i l l l l l 2 1 2 2 1 1 1 2 2 First survey New Zealand. Formerly "Clan McLeod." First New Zealand survey. First New Zealand survey. * Surveyed twice.

Port. Number Number registered, licensed. Port. Number Number registered. licensed. Auckland Blenheim Bluff Dunedin and Port Chalmers Greymouth Hokitika Hokianga Invercargill Kaipara Lyttelton Mangonui Napier Nelson 272 2 107 . 96 197 2 84 92 Brought forward.. New Plymouth Oamaru Patea Pioton Poverty Bay Russell Tauranga Thames Timaru Wanganui Wellington Westport 772 19 50 670 19 48 4 12 58 25 106 13 39 38 3 12 58 26 106 13 39 38 6 6 51 6 44 14 1 120 17 6 6 51 6 87 14 1 120 17 Carried forward .. 772 670 Totals 1,106 995

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Table showing, for the Year 1906, the Number and Tonnage of Registered Vessels (exclusive of River Steamers) of the Colony of New Zealand which were employed wholly in the Home Trade, partly in the Home and partly in the Foreign Trade, and wholly in the Foreign Trade, respectively; and the Number of Men and Boys (exclusive of Masters) employed thereon.

Under 50 Tons. 50 Tons and ■, 100 Tons and I 200 Tons and 300 Tons and under 100. j under 200. under 300. under 400. 400 Tons and under 500. 500 Tons and under 600. 600 Tons and 700 Tons and 800 Tons and 1,000 Tons and 'r,200Tonsandl, 500 Tonsand under 700. under Soo. under r,000. under 1.200. under 1,500. \ 'under 2,000. £. -, . , CO H CO EG ~ c: 10 £ Ceo co C'co CO .. J CO ,-JtO co „ > i- S > H S > h S :> H S,> (2 g > cS, g 2,oooTons and under 3,000. Over 3,000 Tons. Totals. Class of Vessels. o PQ R S C ! crt d D 2 , > c' rt i S 2 > o CO T- Cfi CO S > H c r£ s (fl PQ C C 2 1 o CO -a en C 8-2 >\ x z i c. to . a c co c co rt -3 ■ rf I -5 •J. o a a! s 1 coco c O T3 s c CQ H3 rf § J! CO B 2 ■f. > Cfl B C u > if. o B O (H C -J > 0 > p I hJ en C In the Home (Coastal) Trade only — Sailing Steam 171 333 60 67 4.4971 4.827] 8| 1,185 4,621 8 139 .. I 46 2 4°! 3 614 1,293 836 2,667 9! 82,509 2,132 235 453 688 31 541 426[ 1 217 !.7°5J 5 1,857 1,857 68 7' 3.193 278 278 2 1 2 66 3,6481 140 1 1 1 1 1,190 1,028 2,218 5 5° 2 2,650 2,650 ••! •• •' "I ■• j 170 2I 5 11,048! 30,640 41,688 476 ,2,231 1,019 5 5 101 131 " Totals 181 4,641 504 — 127 9.324 39 5,806 4 8o| 8 1,922 147 H 5 68 7 3.*93 N 1,019 i ! 1,907 68 5 3,648 — 140 :-! 4 3,503 h 2 55 H 2 1 3 1 1 I - 385 102 2,70; Partly in the Home and partly in the Foreign TradeSailing Steam — :— i — I - - — — -! ! — — — — Totals •• •• •• 4 1 725 1 725 32, •• 32 "I H I 1 275i •• ! —: 275 i IO ' • • — 10 1 H 1 396 •' 396 L? 9 • • •• ..: •' •1 " H 1 569 569 •■ ri .. .. 1 n 1 36 5 662 I 662 •• 22j H I 22 " " ■' I 1 - - ■ ■ •• I 3 - 3 2,700 2,700 73 73 3 3 3,379 3,379 84 84 5 - 5 6,362 6,362 163 163 2 H 2 ■• 3,473: 3,473 108 108 " 5 5 11866 11866 429 M 429 I J 1 3,277 — 3,277 105 I05 7 20 27 1,965 31,719 33,684 1,041 6: 98, — — u - — u 1 _ In the Foreign Trade only — Sailing Steam 2,301 1,613 I— 1,047 — — — - 11,645 15,841 10 1 170 187 12 5 1 93 6 M 3 308 446 14 39 9 !82 3 • 969 ••! 32I •■ ' 4 1,946 46 - 36 5 3.291 •• ! 68 •• ■•! •■ •• 1 •• 910 37 1 • • 18 •• 3 3,822 '3d J 5,609. 5,609p •' 2: 4,944 159 37 14 30I ... " Totals — - - 1,946 A 6 H 1,613 i i i - ! 18 H I" - » 17 1 93 ! s 754 53 9J 2,30r 82 i 969 32 4 3 3.291 68l ._ .. 1 910 37 1 1,047 3 3,822 139I 3 32 4,944 159 51 27,486 82, - I— - — — !- — — Grand Totals.. 4,828 128 9.417 694 7,285 4,498 3.222: 5,139 3,201 93 9 5,860 13,648 7,"3 6,644 12834 9,0821 16810 588 3,277 1102858 192 5«| 56 5 i 18! [239 109 II 3241 158! 140 1212 !57 14631 id 433! ! 2 39 105, 4.57:

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Table showing the Number and Tonnage of Sailing and Steam Vessels which remained upon the Register of the Colony of New Zealand on the 31st December, 1905; of those added to and deducted from the Register during the Year 1906; and of those which remained upon the Register on the 31st December, 1906.

Table showing the Number and Tonnage of the Registered Vessels (distinguishing Sailing from Steam) which belonged to each of the Ports of New Zealand on the 31st December, 1900.

Sailing Vessels. Steam Vessels. otal Is.' Vessels Gr0SS „ Net \essers. Tonnage . Tonnage. Vessels Gr0SS ~ Net \ esseis. T onnage. Tonnage. v . Gross Net vessels. Tonnage. Tonnage. Upon the Register on the 31st December, 1905 337 43,100 4 I > I 45 272 1127,857 76,439 609 170,957 1117,584 Added to the Register,— Vessels registered for the first time— (a.) New vessels built at a port in the United Kingdom (b.) New vessels built at ports in British possessions .. (c.) Purchased from foreigners Vessels transferred from ports in the United Kingdom .. .. •-: Vessels transferred from ports in British possessions Vessels registered de novo Other vessels Tonnage added on remeasurement 4 1 412 733 367 690 4 7 6,840 S12 782 3,850 518 4 11 1 6,840 1,224 733 3.850 885 690 1,776 2 1,517 i,456 2 320 4 2,299 1 7 126 i,"3 98 1,019 4 5 i 478 473 28 4 S 251 250 28 28 5 12 1 604 1,586 28 55 349 1,269 28 7 7 35 Total added 15 3,9o8 3.637 23 9,461 5,245 38 13,369 8,882 Struck off the Register,— Vessels wrecked or otherwise lost Vessels broken up or unfit for use Vessels converted into hulks, &c. Vessels sold to foreigners Vessels transferred to ports in the United Kingdom Vessels transferred to ports in British possessions Vessels registered de novo Other vessels Tonnage deducted on remeasurement or alteration (without re-registry) .. ro 9 4 1,076 565 5i 994 559 5i 1 1 19 350 13 199 r i 9 i 4 1,095 565 350 5' 1,007 559 199 5i 2 9 i 770 1,006 28 711 957 28 2 337 153 2 II I 770 i,343 28 711 1, no 28 27 M 41 Total deducted 35 3.496 3.327 706 379 39 4,202 3.706 Vessels on Register on 31st December, 1906 608 180,124 122,760 317 43.512 4 I >455 291 1136,612 8l,305

I90I Sailing Vessels. Steam Vessels. Ports. Vessels. Gross Tonnage.! Net Tonnage. Vessels. Gross Tonnage. Net Tonnage. Auckland Mapier .. Wellington kelson .. Lyttelton rimaru .. Dunedin Invercargill 204 6 23 n 18,257 550 3.687 320 4.775 1,649 12,969 1,305 17,007 537 3,520 299 4,612 i,577 12,659 1,244 126 22 36 13 11 1 75 7 16,950 2,571 6,857 1,561 2,996 942 103,812 923 9,787 1,632 3,604 868 1,284 488 63,159 483 23 2 36 12 Totals 317 43.512 4 I >455 291 136,612 81,305

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Descriptive Return of New Zealand Coastal Lighthouses.

Name of Lighthouse. Order of Apparatus. Description.: Period ! ofRevolv-l ing Light. Coloui of Light. Tower built of IDwellingi built of Date first lighted. Cape Maria van I Diemen 1st order dioptric Revolving Fixed 1' White .. Rer 1 , to show over Columbia Reef. White White, with red arc over Flat Rock White and red White Timber Timber I 24 Mar., 1879 Moko Hinou Tiriliri 1st order dioptric 2nd Flashing Fixed 10" Stone Iron Timber 18 June, 1883 1 Jan., 1865 Ponui Passage .. Cuvier Island Bast Cape Portland Island \ 5th 1st 2nd 2nd Revolving Flashing Revolving Fixed 30" 10" 30" Timber Iron 29 July, 1871 22 Sept., 1889 9 Aug., 1900 10 Feb., 1878 Red, to show over Bull Rock. White Timber 2nd order dioptric 2nd 2nd 3rd 2nd 2nd Revolving Fixed * Iron Timber 27 Oct., 1897 1 Jan., 1859 1 Aug., 1881 1 Sept., 1874 1 Dec, 1884 24 Sept., 1877 Cape Paliiser Pencarrow Head.. Cape Egmont Manukau Head .. Kaipara Head .. Brothers .. j Flashing 10" 10" Timber Fixed Red, to show over Cook Rock. White Timber Stone Timber Iron Timber Stone Timber Stone Timber Stone Timber Stone Timber 1 Aug., 1870 1 April, 1865 1 Jan., 1880 1 July, 1904 22 April, 1878 2 Jan., 1865 1 Jan., 1880 4 July, 1870 1 Jan., 1884 1 Aug., 1865 Cape Campbell .. Godley Head Akaroa Head Jack's Point Moeraki Taiaroa Head Cape Saunders .. Nugget Point Waipapapa Point Dog Island 2nd order dioptric 2nd 2nd 4th 3rd 3rd 2nd 1st 2nd 1st order catadioptric 1st order dioptric Revolving Fixed Flashing Fixed Revolving Fixed Flashing Revolving 1' io" i' Red White Stone Timber Stone Timber Stone io" 30" Centre Island Fixed White, with red arcs over inshore dangers White Timber Timber 16 Sept., 1878 Puysegur Point .. Cape Foulwind .. Kahurangi Point.. 1st 2nd 2nd Flashing Revolving Fixed .. 10" 30" White, with red sector to show over Stewart Breaker White, with red arc over Spit end White, with red arc to mark limit of anchorage Red and white, with white light on beacon White Iron 1 Mar., 1879 1 Sept., 1876 30 Nov., 1903 Farewell Spit 2nd Revolving 1' 17 June, 1870 Nelson 4th Fixed 4 Aug., 1862 French Pass 6th 1 Oct., 1884 Stephen Island .. 1st Group flashing t 29 Jan., 1894 * Flashing twice every half-minute. every half-minute, wi ith interval >f three si iconds between flashes. t Two flashes in quick succession

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Return of Accidents to Seamen and Others on board Ship reported to the Marine Department during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1907.

Date of Lccident. Name of Vessel, Port of Registry, and Official Number. Name of Person injured. Nature of Injury: Fatal or otherwise. Place where Accident occurred. Particulars as to Accident^and, Verdict of Jury where 1906. April 3 Endeavour (schooner), Fremantle, 117813 Clansman, s.s., Auckland, 87520 Kahu (scow), Whangarei, 102314 Canopus, s.s., Dunedin, 101490 Cygnet, s.s., Lyttelton, 91893 .. J. Rand, A.B. Injured right shoulder Auckland Wharf Stepped on gangway, which was not made fast, and fell on the deck. In attempting to lift a heavy brass bush he strained his back. Whilst unloading bricks one fell and injured right foot. Slipped on deck and sprained ankle. Bundle of leather fell out of sling and struck his right arm, breaking it. While hauling vessel to wharf the line slipped off a post, and White fell against spokes of wheel, causing injury to his back. Whilst working about hydraulic gear he slipped and caught his foot in the pipes, straining it severely. Washed by a sea against fore-hatch, and braised right leg. 4 4 4 „ 10 W. Donald, greaser J. Johansen, A.B. John Taft, A.B. E. J. Etheridge, mate . . Strained back Injured right foot .. Sprained ankle Right arm broken Auckland Whangarei Lyttelton Lyttelton „ 12 Seagull (scow), Auckland, 87534 George White, seaman Back hurt Mercury Bay ., 16 Mararoa, s.s., Dunedin, 89380 J. Livingstone, A.B. Strained right foot Wellington „ 28 Wimmera, s.s., Melbourne, 123722 Rimutaka, s.s., Plymouth, 111355 Gannet (scow), Auckland, 82683 E. Wright, fireman Contused right thigh On voyage, Lyttelton to Wellington Timaru Wharf „ 28 Robert McEllenney, greaser James Evans, seaman .. Drowned Fell off wharf, and was drowned. May 9 Internal injuries Freeman's Bay, Auckland While engaged discharging logs one slipped and crushed him, causing internal injuries. A sack of wheat fell from slings striking him on the leg, and spraining his ankle. Whilst engaged trimming, a piece of coal fell and crashed his little finger. Slipped on deck and fell, fracturing her right arm. Hand was caught by wheel of dynamo, and braised badly. Whilst engaged discharging logs the jack slipped, and bruised his hand badly. When coming out of forecastle, slipped and fell on some pipes, part cargo, and cut a piece of flesh out of palm of right hand. Deceased was found drowned in Wellington Harbour. Presumed he slipped and fell into hold while engaged in putting on hatches. Inquest verdict: " Accidental death." While descending ladder into No. 2 hold he slipped and fell into lower hold. Foot jambed in levers of valve-gear, badly damaging left heel. „ 11 Kanieri, s.s., Auckland, 84490 M. Anderson, A.B. Right ankle sprained Whangarei „ 17 Mangapapa s.s., Auckland 112600 Kia Ora, s.s., Auckland, 102289 Taniwha, s.s., Auckland, 102302 Seagull (scow), Auckland, 87534 John Kelly, fireman Little finger crushed Hauraki Gulf „ 17 ,, 18 „ 19 Mrs. F. Nelson, stewardess J. Malley, fireman G. Broadfoot, mate Broken arm Bruised hand Left hand bruised New Plymouth Auckland Auckland „ 21 Taniwha, s.s., Auckland, 102302 T. Clayton, O.S. Right hand cut Auckland ,, 24 „ 26 Kassa (scow), Hobart, 55310 .. Aparima, s.s., London, 115807 Karl Anderson, A.B. Frederick Perara, wharf labourer John Richardson, O.S. Drowned Killed Wellington Harbour Wellington Wharf „ 31 Niwaru, s.s., London, 114854 .. Fractured left wrist, andjout over right eye Injured foot Queen's Wharf, Wellington June 2 Mararoa, s.s., Dunedin, 89380 E. Darnoch, greaser Between Wellington and Lyttelton Wellington Wharf 8 Tongariro, s.s., Plymouth, 1 11356 A. Barratt, bosun's mate Fractured right leg, and several braises Arm injured While fixing weather-screens on promenade-deck, fell between ship's side and wharf. Whilst putting coal on port fire the door slammed, owing to ship rolling, and caused the shovel in his hand to injure the arm. When going on board at night he fell from wharf to deck, and fractured his skull. Whilst shipping insulator hatches the cross-piece of the upper hatch fell and struck his right hand. While taking in timber the end of a log struck McCann, and pinned him against the skylight. „ 15 Mokoia, s.s., Dunedin, 101483 G. Hampshire, fireman Between Wellington and Lyttelton Lyttelton Wharf „ 15 „ 26 Southern Isle (scow), Nelson, 102334 Niwaru, s.s., Auckland, 114854 Karl Johansen, A.B. Fractured skull Crushed hand C. Pitt, A.B. Auckland July 3 Manuka, s.s., Dunedin, 117582 M. McCann, A.B. Injured leg Dunedin Wharf ..

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Date of Name of Vessel, Port of Registry, N amp „f person iniured Accident, j and Official Number. fl ™ e 01 P ersoa injured. Nature of Injury: Fatal or otherwise. Place where Accident occurred. Particulars as to Accident and its Cause, and Verdict of Jury where J Coroner s Inquest held. ! I 1906. July 6 Rotomahana, s.s., Dunedin, H. Stephens, greaser -575224 Kia Ora (scow), Auckland, William Bateson, Cook 102289 Queen Helena, s.s., Glasgow, Frank Nelson, A.B. 119147 Kia Ora, s.s., Auckland, 115205 James Duffercy, A.B. .. Loss of finger .. Wellington Whilst greasing engines Stephens slipped, and had third finger of left hand cut off by L.P. valve gear. Cut his hand with knife which he was carrying. 8 Cut hand Kawhia „ 16 _ Fell between wharf and ship into the water, and struck his head. • .. Injury to head Injured limbs .. Dunedin Duffercy released winch when pawl was disconnected, and handle struck him on left arm and right leg, injuring both severely. Fell from main hatch on to lower deck. Whilst taking in boat after drill got fingers crushed in chock. Whilst lifting bullion into safe slipped and fell. In getting down from forecastle-winch he stepped on a rope, and twisted his ankle. Whilst heaving the ship to the wharf one of the chocks carried away, and the snatch-bolt hook struck Berry's arm. Whilst steadying a sling of cargo it struck his left knee. Fell from ladder on to forecastle-deck. Vessel jibed, and Thomas was probably knocked overboard by the boom ; master and other A.B. were below at the time. Whilst he was steadying a sling of cargo it struck his left knee. Whilst firing and using the slice it struck him on the right side. Whilst trimming coal a lump fell on his left foot. Whilst attending to the winch Cunningham leaned over to clear the falls, and placed his right hand on the cogs. Whilst loading timber McDonald fell backwards into the hold on his head. Fell whilst going into forecastle. Whilst attending to winch the hauling-line flew off the barrel, and struck his wrist. Whilst making fast to wharf he struck his left leg against some timber. Whilst slicing fires struck his elbow against bulkhead. Whilst lashing the forward hawser got his foot jambed between the grating and the forward bitts. Whilst on duty Colbert bruised the knuckle of middle finger of right hand. When at boat-drill Osberg jumped from rail of ship to deok. Whilst helping to discharge cargo Burns ricked his back. „ 17 Auckland .. „ 19 „ 19 „ 27 „ 31 Defender, s.s., Sydney, 112520 Wilham Brown, fireman Mokoia, s.s., Dunedin, 101483 P. McLean, A.B. Waimarie, s.s., Auckland, 102282 W. Cunningham, O.S. .. Kipple, s.s., Lyttelton, 120627 Charles Wilhams, fireman Injury to ribs .. Fingers crushed Braised fingers.. Hurt ankle At sea Auckland Auckland Wanganui Aug. 1 Rarawa, s.s., Auckland, 115207 C. Berry, A. B. .. j Bruised arm New Plymouth Wharf .. j 4 „ 4 „ 10 Ngapuhi, s.s., Auckland, 102329 William Millar, A.B. .. Defender, s.s., Sydney, 112520 R. Aspin Medora (schooner), Auckland, Thomas Thomas, A.B. .. 78380 Ngapuhi, s.s., Auckland, 102329 George Roberts, cook .. Atua, s.s., Dunedin, 117591 .. D. Nelson, fireman Manuka, s.s., Dunedin, 117582 i William Klemp, fireman Waimarie, s.s., Auckland, 102282 William Cunningham, O.S. Bruised knee .. Injury to ankle Drowned New Plymouth .. Lyttelton .. .. I About 40 miles N.N.E. from I Taiaroa Heads New Plymouth .. At sea .. .. At sea .. .. Auckland .. „ 14 „ 16 „ 19 „ 22 Bruised knee .. Fractured rib .. Bruised foot Crushed fingers „ 25 Eunice (scow), Auckland, 102343 J. McDonald, mate Concussion Onehunga Wharf „ 25 „ 26 Moana, s.s., Dunedin, 101479 .. W. Clarke, fireman Victoria, s.s., Auckland .. \ H. Syme, A.B. Head cut Braised wrist .. At sea, near Lyttelton Auckland „ 31 Kapanui, s.s., Auckland, 102311 P. Hansen, seaman Burst vein in leg Auckland Wharf Sept. 4 Moeraki, s.s., Dunedin .. , E. Hayden, fireman Kamona, s.s., Auckland, 101486 i John Wilson, A.B. Fractured elbow Crushed foot .. Dunedin At sea, near Lyttelton „ 14 Wakatu, s.s., Wellington, 64818 M. Colbert, fireman Injured finger .. At sea, near Lyttelton „ 19 „ 27 „ 28 Taviuni, s.s., Dunedin, 84500 .. C. F. Osberg, seaman .. Clansman, s.s., Auckland, 87520 J. H. Burns, fireman .. .. T j 11 conr, I George Stant, labourer Aparima, s.s., London, 115807 ', y v n x. " i v. r > > > John Cashman, labourer Right foot injured Injury to back Head injured .. Wrist injured .. Westport Whangaroa '- Wellington Whilst coaling from " Pukaki" a basket of coal was being hove up when the hook on lower block of topping-lift tackle carried away, causing the " Pukaki's " derrick to come down on " Aparima's" deck, the gin-block struck Stant on the back of the head, severely injuring him. Cashmere was landing the basket at the time, and had his wrist badly bruised.

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Date of Accident. Name of Vessel, Port of Registry, and Official Number. Name of Person injured. Nature of Injury: Fatal or otherwise. Place where Accident occurred. Particulars as to Accident and its Cause, and Verdict of Jury where Coroner s Inquest held. | 1906. £3 Oct. 5 >> 8 Manapouri, s.s., Dunedin Waiotahi, s.s., Auckland, 94250 R. Howearth, seaman .. James Coglan, second steward J. Jansen, seaman T. Cuthbert, fireman .. Michael McCarthy, seaman John Hume, steward .. J. Martell, seaman Twisted ankle .. Injured spine .. Raratonga Auckland Fell down companion-ladder. Whilst cleaning brasswork on companion-steps Coglan fell. at „ 8 ' „ 14 „ 15 Altair (scow), Auckland, 115200 Mokoia, s.s., Dunedin, 101483.. Togo, s.s. Injured leg Burnt face and arms Drowned Auckland Auckland Wellington Harbour A basket upon which he was standing capsized, and he fell. Whilst raking fires Cuthbert received a blast from the furnace. Whilst assisting in mooring a punt McCarthy stepped from the tug on to the punt, and fell backwards into the sea. Slipped and fell on deck. Whilst trimming coal Martell struck his left wrist against the combing of hatch. Williams was taking the spring off the post on the wharf, when he slipped and fell between the wharf and the vessel, fracturing his skull. When riding to obtain medical assistance for a deck-boy, Williams, Wilson was thrown from his horse. Whilst helping to break away the anchor he was struck on the right arm by the handle of the winch. Whilst vessel was laying at anchor the mate exploded a detonator, part of which struck the man and penetrated his side. Whilst sweeping dust off boiler, Harrison put his feet into some hot refuse. Whilst discharging cargo in lifting a bale Baker twisted the sinews of his back. Whilst assisting to moor vessel Rider got two fingers of left hand crushed between bow-line and windlass. Fingers had to be amputated. Whilst in hold discharging cargo a case fell upon his foot. Whilst shipping cargo a bag of sugar fell and struck his left foot. Whilst employed scaling the inside of one of the boilers steam was accidentally turned on. Whilst engaged at boat-drill Robinson fell out of one of the boats. When taking in logs the rope surged and threw him across the rudder-head. When closing the ash-pit door finger got crushed. Whilst getting stern-line ready for wharf Clark fell overboard, and was drowned. Fell off the wharf when going aboard his vessel, and was drowned. Drowned whilst bathing in the Opawa River. A hot ash got into Grieves's eye. „ 20 „ 20 Takapuna, s.s., Dunedin, 66540 Endeavour, s.s., Auckland, 118972 Clansman, s.s., Auckland, 87520 Injured knee .. Bruised wrist .. Auckland Between Whangaroa and Kaeo Whangaroa „ 23 E. Williams, deck-boy .. Killed „ 23 Clansman, s.s., Auckland, 87520 F. Wilson, seaman Injured knee .. Between Whangaroa and Kaeo Off East Cape » 24 May (scow), Auckland, 94257.. H. Hard wick, A.B. Bruised arm .. 25 Waitangi, s.s., Auckland C. Willis, A.B. Injury to side .. Parengarenga .. 27 Tarawera, s.s., Dunedin, 84480 J. Harrison, trimmer .. Burnt feet Lyttelton „ 29 Clansman, s.s., Auckland, 87520 William Baker, A.B. Injured back .. Auckland Nov. 8 Ngapuhi, s.s., Auckland, 102329 C. Rider, A.B. Crushed fingers Whangarei Wharf „ 20 „ 20 „ 27 Ngapuhi, s.s., Auckland, 102329 Muritai, s.s., Auckland, 89319.. Delphic, s.s., Liverpool, 106851 James Oakes, A.B. William Kelly, A.B. .. P. Sims, fireman Bruised foot Sprained ankle Scalded Auckland Wharf Onehunga Dunedin Dec. 1 Ngapuhi, s.s., Auckland, 102329 E. Robinson, A.B. Bruised knee .. Whangarei ,, 1 Stella, s.s., Auckland, 69002 .. C. Malinguist, A.B. Legs injured Waiapu „ 4 4 Atua, s.s., Dunedin, 117591 .. Kotiti, s.s., Auckland, 102306 E. A. Clark, trimmer .. Charles Clark, O.S. Crushed finger Fatal At sea Entrance to Matakana River „ 5 „ 6 ,. 6 Hawea, s.s., Dunedin, 101478 Opawa, s.s., Wellington, 91800 Takapuna, s.s., Dunedin, 84485 Percival Fulda, steward Frederick Walker, boy .. J. A. Grieves, A.B. Fatal Fatal Injury to eye .. Greymouth Wellington Between New Plymouth and Onehunga Auckland ,, 7 Kanieri, s.s., Auckland, 84490 John West, A.B. Sprained ankle Whilst discharging cargo he stepped on a piece of dunnage, and sprained his ankle. Whilst rigging heavy gear he got jammed between the derrick and a meat-safe. Whilst washing paint-work in engine-room he fell. „ 11 Wanaka, s.s., Dunedin, 95018.. A. Stewart, A.B. Internal injury Napier „ 12 Wairuna, s.s., Dunedin, 118495 G. A. Pratt, fireman Fractured ribs Lyttelton

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Date of Name of Vessel, Port of Registry, Accident. | and Official Number. Place where Accident occurred. Particulars as to Accident and its Cause, and Verdict of Jury where Coroner's Inquest held. Name of Person-injured. Nature of Injury: Fatal or otherwise. 1906. i Dee. 12 ; Ysabel (schooner), Auckland, 66578 Delphic, s.s., Liverpool, 106851 A. J. Swanson, A.B. Injured fingers At sea .. Whilst setting jib-stay got third and fourth fingers of right hand caught in winch. Fell from the fore-peak ladder. At Coroner's inquest jury found that death was due to heart-failure. When going up gangway Scott fell from it to the wharf about 20 ft. Whilst firing slipped on stokehold-plates. Whilst shipping passengers' luggage McDonald fell into the hold. „ 14 W. John Spooner, A.B. Fatal At sea „ 21 Ruapehu, s.s., Plymouth, 111357 James Scott, trimmer .. Concussion of brain Wellington „ 26 „ 29 1907. Jan. 7 Mokoia, s.s., Dunedin, 101483 Talune, s.s., Hobart, 57626 .. T. Baker, fireman John McDonald, A.B. Rupture Bruised At sea Lyttelton Tui, s.s., not registered Henry Kerr Fatal Outside Wairau Bar When on a fishing excursion he fell overboard when drawing , a bucket of water, and was drowned. Main-boom topping-lift carried away and fell on Johnson's head. „ 11 Aratapu (barquentine), Auckland, 78354 Ngapuhi, s.s., Auckland, 102329 Cyril Johnson, boy Injured head Between Kaipara and Lyttelton Wharf, Auckland When cleaning a window in the engine-room the ladder on which he was standing slipped. When taking the stern-line along the deck Reilly fell. Whilst working near the boiler Muir got his foot burnt. Whilst shifting cases in store-room he scratched his left hand with a rusty nail, which caused blood-poisoning. Whilst at boat-drill got his hand jammed between the boat and ship's side. Whilst paying out the tow-line Saunders was caught in a bight of the rope and dragged overboard. Was struck on the left side by a sling of timber. Hanley had been peculiar in his manner, and was missed when the vessel was about seven miles off shore at Port Awanui. Whilst crossing deck he stood on a steam-pipe, and burnt his right foot. When putting on the hatches on No. 3 hold the fore-and-aft beam slipped out of its socket, and precipitated J. Baird and J. Usher (who were standing on the hatch) into the hold. Baird was killed by the fall, but Usher was not injured. Whilst working at No. 2 hatch he overbalanced himself and fell into the hold. He sustained severe scalp wound, slight concussion of the brain, a broken collarbone, and contused spine. , Whilst working in the hold a sling of cargo fell on Robinson s foot. When carrying a bag of ashes up the ladder leading from the stokehold he struck his right knee against one of the steps, and the injury developed into an abscess. Whilst arranging a ladder to go down the hold he overbalanced himself and fell to the bottom of the hold. McKay was missed from his -vessel from 25th March, and his body was found floating in harbour on 3rd April. At the inquest a verdict of " found drowne " was returned ,. 14 T. White, fireman Sprained ankle „ 18 „ 18 23 Tarawera, s.s., Dunedin, 84480 Takapuna, s.s., Dunedin, 84485 Mokoia, s.s., Dunedin, 101483 R. Reilly, A.B. C. Muir, fireman W. Olsen, steward Injured leg Burnt foot Poisoned hand Napier At sea At sea between Wellington and Auckland At sea Feb. 8 Haupiri, s.s., Dunedin, 89094 .. J. Sutherland, A.B. Crushed finger „ 15 Sterling, s.s., Auckland, 101703 Ernest P. Saunders, mate Drowned Shag Creek, Wairoa River.. „ 16 „ 20 Talune, s.s., Hobart, 57626 .. Waikonini (scow), Auckland, 102336 Ngapuhi, s.s., Auckland, 102329 A. Matheson, A.B. Gustav Hanley, A.B. Injury to ribs Drowned Lyttelton About seven miles from Port Awanui At sea „ 26 J. McCracken, O.S. Burnt foot Mar. 5 Surrey, s.s., London, 110184 .. James Baird, stevedore Fatal Wellington „ 15 Turakina, s.s., Plymouth, 114620 Henry Tobin, stevedore Severely injured Wellington „ 16 Ngapuhi, s.s., Auckland, 102389 E. Robinson, A.B. Crushed foot Whangarei „ 20 Taniwha, s.s., Auckland, 102302 Walter Cain, fireman .. Injured knee At sea „ 26 Ayrshrrers.-s., Glasgow,- 119066 A.- Mustard, - carpenters' mate Daniel McKay, nook .. Fractured leg-and arm-, and severe bruises Drowned Dunedin Rangi (scow), Auckland, 118976 Wellington Harbour „ 26 !

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Date of Vessel's Name, Age, Casualty. and Class. Big. ch ai CD cji Number of Nature of Number of Lives lost. Place where Casualt] occurred. Wind. Finding of Court of Inquiry. Name of Master. 3 Passengers. Cargo. Casualty. Direction. Force. 1905. Sep. 8 Whangape, s.s., 5 years Schooner 1901 32 Sugar .. Collision, and stranded; partial loss S.W. of Piles Light, South Passage, Suva Harbour Calm The " Whangape " left Suva for Auckland with a cargo of sugar, and whilst going at halfspeed turned into the passage and discovered the cutter " Bronzewing," 14 tons, straight ahead, showing no lights. The " Whangape " kept to port side of passage as much as possible, going full speed astern to avoid the cutter, which was crossing the passage, using sweeps. " Bronzewing" struck " Whangape " on starboard bow, and carried away her bowsprit. After passing the cutter the " Whangape's " bows took the sandpoint, south-west of Pile light, grounding very lightly, and backed off at midnight on three-quarter-flood tide Mate did not carry out master's order to keep out to sea. Vessel mis-stayed, and went ashore Vessel broke her tail-shaft 4 in. inside pro-peller-boss. Breakage apparently caused by granulation from wear and tear Casualty caused by continuous westerly winds R. D. Watson. 1906. Mar. 21 Aotea, auxiliary, 12 years Schooner 89 General Stranded; partial loss Waipiro Bay S.S.W. Gentle breeze John Brown. „ 30 Cygnet, s.s., 20 years Schooner 66 11 Ballast Broke tailshaft Guard's Bay, Cook Strait S. Squally Alexander Innes Murray. April 4 Aorere, s.s., 21 years Mimiro, s.s., 6 years Ketch .. 49 9i General Stranded; no damage Fire Inside Patea bar s.s.w. Light .. A. H. Fisk. „ 10 Schooner 4025 55 Wool, flax, &e. Glasgow Wharf, Wellington x.w. Light .. No evidence as to cause of fire. It may have been due to spontaneous combustion, or the flax may have been wilfully set on fire by some person or persons unknown Vessel struck a rock to the north of Pania Reef Buoy. Master was deceived as to his distance from the buoy, and the extent of the reef to the north Vessel touched coming out of Lyttelton Harbour, but got off again in a few hours Vessel cast ashore by the westerly swell, in consequence of the wind failing and rendering it impossible to reach seaward. Master was guilty of an error in judgment in sailing the vessel too near the coast in the weather prevailing, and was ordered to pay the costs of the inquiry, £6 3s. Vessel left Lyttelton at mid-day on 21st April, 1906, and was sighted next morning off Cape Campbell, bottom up. It is supposed she capsized owing to the violence of the wind and sea. Vessel towed to Wellington later Fredk. Charles Lids tone. „ 10 Perthshire, s.s., 12 years, 100 Al Schooner 3622 58 General Stranded; no damage Pallia Reef, near Napier Breakwater w. Light .. E. T. Cremer. „ 17 Mararoa, s.s. .. Schooner General Stranded; no damage Stranded; total loss Outside Western Mole, Lyttelton Oakuru, New Plymouth S.W. Moderate breeze Very light W. Manning. 1381 76 313 „ 19 Warrior, scow Schooner 73 5 Timber s. C. Anderson. „ 21 or 22 Ronga, schooner, 6 years 6 Sunposed to be off Cape Campbell Gale E. 0. Petersen. Schooner 93 6 Coal Capsized ; partial loss s.

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u*te of Vessel's Name. Age, and Class. Big. tH CD CD (* 3 2 Number of Nature of Number of Lives lost. Place where Gal occurred. Win Direction. Wind. ad. Force. Finding of Court of Inquiry. Name of MMter. 'oca It D a Passengers. Cargo. Casualty. 1900. \pril29 River Hunter, 14 years Barquentine 284 10 Ballast Stranded; total loss Whangape Heads N.W. Strong breeze No fault of master or certificated officers. Charterers provided a steamer to tow the vessel, but the tug was not powerful enough, and the tow-line was defective. Vessel stranded before she could get back No loom of land visible, and only one glimpse of Tiri Tiri light. Vessel having very little draught sagged to leeward in the heavy sea, anrl went ashore The ship was on a voyage from Greymouth to Warnambool with a cargo of white-pine timber. She put into Wellington leaking badly, and was surveyed, and condemned as unseaworthy Fire probably caused by the fusing of the electric-light wire in the forehold The vessel was last seen by the East Cape Island lighthouse-keeper on the 19th May, passing the East Cape, and on her way south, and has not been heard of since. A day or so after the vessel passed East Cape the weather became unusually stormy, and the only reasonable inference to be drawn from the evidence is that she was lost, with all hands, shortly after the 19th May Propeller dropped off ; no damage to ship .. Robert Alex. Campbell. May 4 Irene, scow, 17 years Schooner 37 Timber Stranded; total loss N.E. end of Whangaparoa Head, Hauraki Gulf N.N.E. Strong breeze Andrew Donovan. df 6 Devonport, 28 Barque Timber Leaking ; condemned Between Greymouth and Wellington N.E. Robert Watt. 291 10 Moderate gale „ 8 Schooner Coal .. Fire, slight damage Total loss 4 miles W. of Jackson's Head Last seen off East Cape, North Island Moderate gale Furious gale P. A. Gibbons. Tasman, s.s. .. 87 13 W.N.W. Haeremai, scow, 2 years Schooner 97 5 Timber 5 J. G. Morris. „ 19 ., 22 Opawa, s.s., 10 years Schooner 64 12 General Lost propeller J mile south of Falcon Shoal, Wellington Harbour N.W. Strong Edward Shaw. n *- Natone, s.s., 6 years Uta, 7 years .. Schooner 50 Tug .. (Collision; no damage Collision ; slight damage Collision ; damage, £30 Stranded ; total loss S.E. Light J Probable that if " Natone's" engines had been stopped and reversed when she first sighted the Uta " the casualty would not have occurred Joseph Carich. 3 Off end of No. 1 berth, Wellington Harbour Cutter .. 15 3 Pilot-boat W. Shilling. „ 29 Coromandel .. Hulk .. 2 53 80 Coal .. General 1 Wellington Harbour.. N. Moderate breeze Unavoidable accident; everything done to prevent the collision fNo master. j J. T. Rolls. Joseph Eddy. „ 29 Tarawera, s.s., 23 years Winona, s.s., 32 years § Schooner 1269 „ 30 Cutter .. 13 3 Fish .. Napier, South Beach, Hawke's Bay Calm .. Whilst trying to return to port the vessel was stranded in a dense fog. Casualty might have been avoided by heaving the lead and using more caution when approaching the shore Coupling-bolts of intermediate shaft broke ; no one to blame June 2 Muritai, s.s., 22 years Schooner General i Broken shaft Off Manukau Bar Moderate A. Stephenson. S.S.W. 133 13

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Date of Casualty. Vessel's Name, Age, and Class. "5? <s Number of Nature of Number of Lives lost. Place where Cas occurred. Wind. Name of Matter. 3 3 i n Cargo. Casualty. Finding of Court of Inquiry. Passengers. i Direction. Force. 1906. June 2 Elsie, s.s., 22 years 15 Burnt; total loss Blackball Wharf, Havelock Woodwork near funnel caught fire, and vessel was scuttled, as efforts to subdue the fire failed ■ »■ ■ ■)/-.,. iy , Whilst being towed down the harbour the vessel stranded, owing to the tug not having sufficient power to tow her over the bar Cause of casualty : insufficient water on the bar, and the negligent navigation of the master in continuing too long on a southwest by west course after passing the line of beacons ; and, further, by not ascertaining his position by compass-bearings, or by soundings with the lead, after he had failed to pick up the back beacon. The Court considered the master should be severely censured, and ordered him to pay the costs of the inquiry, £15 7s.fiV ;; -, Mfc'H Returning from coastal voyage the vessel was unable to enter the river, owing to darkness and no lights visible. Direction of the wind suddenly changed during the night, and the vessel was compelled to put to sea. Owing either to failure of the engines or rough sea she was swamped, and the occupants drowned After crossing the bar the vessel touched bottom, and lost steerage- way /In backing out from Railway Wharf " Corinna " collided with " Pondo," and broke off a blade of the latter's propeller. Unavoidable accident, caused by the strong breeze blowing. The " Corinna " had one of her davits broken Vessel is supposed to have struck a submerged anchor on Wairau Bar, and had a hole torn in her bottom by the fluke Heavy seas caused the engines to race, and the tail-shaft carried away Cable parted, and vessel drove ashore, not having sufficient power to steam against heavy sea and wind Ketch swung round and stranded on rocks through swell making whilst she lay at anchor R. Pugh. 9 Pelotas, 9 years Barquentine 250 10 Timber Stranded; total loss Whangape Harbour .. S.E. Gentle breeze F. W. Whitton. „ 14 Waihi, s.s., 24 years Schooner 63 General Stranded ; partial loss Wairau Bar S.E. Moderate C. F. Baekstrom. „ 14 Akitio, oillaunch, 2 years Cutter .. 12 Somewhere near mouth of Akitio River Nil Swamped; total loss S.W. Strong John Beer. July 2 Kiripaka, s.s., 11 years Pondo, s.s., 12 years Stranded; slight damago Patea Bay ... A. M. Gillies. Ketch .. 75 10 Coal .. N.W. Light .. 3 Schooner 1773 32 General \ General Glasgow Wharf, Wellington Harbour S.W. Strong breeze E. R. Large. „ 3 Corinna, s.s., 25 years Schooner 812 Collision; slight damage J. S. Pender. 5 Blenheim, s.s., 1 year Schooner 85 10 2 Produce Supposed struck anchor Wairau Bar w. Gale .. S. Clark. „ 7 Kini, s.s., 12 years Paiaka, s.s., 25 years Schooner 702 •22 Ballast Tail-shaft broken Stranded ; partial loss 6 miles N.W. by W. of Cape Foulwind Fitzroy Bay S.W. Strong breeze Hurricane C. M. Tenant. 9 Ketch .. 10 2 Ballast N.N.W. J. Symons. 9 Lily, 31 years.. Ketch .. 13 Timber Stranded; slight damage Wharf, Okain's Bay .. N.W. Moderate W. Adams.

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Date of Casualty. Vessel's Name, Age, and Class. Rig. "h cd .Number of • CD QO ■£ ed Nature of sof Casualty. Number of Lives lost. Place where Cas occurred. Wind. L Force. Finding of Court of Inquiry. Name of Master. 'S> = «EH 3= Passen5 gers. Cargo. I Direction. 1906. uly 11 Rose Casey, s.s., 27 years Schooner 81 General Stranded ; partial loss New River, near Invercargill w.s.w. Moderate in the trough of a rough sea as H. McGilvTay. she was crossing the bar, and struck the ground heavily Owing to an unusually strong easterly gale J.iGoomes. and heavy sea the vessel was capsized and lost, with all hands, about 7.30. a.m. on the 17th July, off East Cape Owing to an unusually strong easterly gale ! J. H. Skinner. and heavy sea the vessel was driven ashore in Waipiro Bay, and became a total wreck. | The master, his wife and child, and the crew were all drowned Whilst moored to the shore for the purpose of W. Sharp. discharging cargo the sea suddenly increased, and the port cable parted. The vessel swung on to the beach, and the sea carried away part of bulwarks, broke stanchions, and part of deadwood. The vessel was hove off on the 18th August, and towed to Gisborne Casualty was caused through want of know- F W.i Cox. ledge of the currents and eddies in the new channel Insufficient depth of water on the bar. Un- W. H. Sayers. avoidable accident „ 17 'Sir Henry, 19 Brigantine Schooner 95 Timber & drainpipes Capsized; total loss 4 Between East Cape Island and mainland E. Furious gale years Aotea, auxiliary s.s., 12 years General Stranded; total loss 11 Waipiro Bay, near East Cape E. Furious gale 17 8!t it 29 May, scow, 14 years Schooner Timber, bricks, & iron Damage to : bulwarks, &c, £100 Middle of Tokomaru Bay Calm .. Tasman, s.s., 3 years Stranded; no damage Boulder Bank, Nelson Aug. 4 Schooner 87 13 General S.W. Moderate F W.^Cox. ,, 4 Moa, s.s., 20 years Schooner 95 12 Coal .. Stranded ; partial loss cargo, £95 Collision with mole; trifling damage Stranded; slight damage Collision; no damage S. Spit, mouth of Manawatu River N.W. Moderate W. H. Sayers. ,, 5 Tasman, s.s., 3 years Schooner 87 13 General Boulder Bank, Nelson S. Light .. Vessel collided with pipe projecting from mole. \ F. W. Cox. Casualty caused by want of knowledge of ! currents and eddies in the new channel « Insufficient depth of water on the bar ; 240 F. Dewhurst. tons of coal jettisoned Stern line of " Pateena " was let go too soon, Charles Clift. and she collided with s.s. " Aorere," lying at wharf Run into by " Pateena " .. A. H. Fisk. F. W. Cox. ,, 5 Putiki, s.s., 2 years Pateena, s.s., 23 years Schooner 157 16 Coal .. S. Spit, mouth of Manawatu River S.W. Fresh .. F. Dewhurst. ,, 6 Schooner 550 57 General Charles Clift. ,, 6 Schooner General Queen's Wharf, Wellington N. Light A. H. Fisk. Aorere, s.s., 21 years 49 Collision; dama g e, ship, £300, cargo, £350 Loss of life .. Medora, 27 years Schooner General About 40 miles N.N.E. from Otago Heads N.-N.E. When running before a fresh breeze the boom W. Scurrah. jibed and knocked Thomas Thomas, an A.B., overboard. The vessel returned immediately to the place where the accident occurred, but no trace of Thomas could be found W. Scurrah. ti 10 1 Fresh ..

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ft rrj a. to Phh Number of Nature of Wind. Date of Vessel's Name, Age, Casualty, and Claii. Number of Lives lost. Place where Casualt, occurred. Finding of Court of Inquiry. Name of Master. £ Passen- £ gers. Cargo. Casualty. Direction. Force. 1906. Aug. 11 Mapourika, s.s., 8 years Schooner 718 ; 40 30 Coal .. Stranded ; no damage Boulder Bank, Nelson, N. of new cut Calm .. Vessel in charge of pilot, who allowed insufficient room in rounding up to get a fanrun into the channel Vessel touched on flat rock, and afterwards grounded, got off without damage S. L Kennedy. „ 11 Pateena, s.s., 13 years Schooner 550 40 30 General Stranded; no damage Entrance to Nelson Harbour, old channel S. Light .. C. Clift. ,, 18 Aorere, s.s., 21 years Schooner 49 9 Produce Shipped heavy sea; slight damage Patea Bar N. When crossing the bar the vessel shipped a heavy sea, which carried away the forward .bulkhead of house on deck; unavoidable accident. Vessel touched on reef and dented five plates, and also broke two blades of her propeller Casualty was caused by master standing too close in to the beach before tacking A. H. Fisk. „ 21 Tuna-, launch, 17 years Defiance, 26 years Brigantine 15 199 4 D a mag e of plates Stranded; refloat ed; slight damage Lost propeller Reef off Kaiti Beach, Poverty Bay W. Sandspit, Kaipara Calm .. C. F. Berney. „ 27 8 Coal and general N.E. Fresh .. Robert Lloyd White. „ 28 Charles Edward, s.s., 42 years Eveline Schooner 145 16 Timber Wanganui River Head of shaft broken and propeller lost, but afterwards recovered The launch was obstructing the approach to the wharf, and the s.s. " Awaroa " ran into her Casualty was not due to faulty construction of furnaces or other portion of machinery, and was not due or contributed to by negligence or carelessness Master had not entered Kaipara Harbour for four years, and was not aware of alterations in the channel, and took a wrong course The casualty was due to the vessel lurching heavily, thus causing the shifting of the ballast, which shifting was contributed to by the shifting boards being insufficiently high The master was guilty of a great error of judgment in abandoning the vessel under the circumstances, and was ordered to pay £15 costs of inquiry. Whilst vessel was on voyage from Gisborne to Auckland it was found that cargo in No. 3 hold was on fire, which was extinguished by the crew after five hours work. Cause of fire unknown Insufficient depth of water on the bar. Rudder and rudder-post were carried away, caused by the vessel striking the ground heavily Edward Graham. Thomas Pettit. Sept. 9 Launch not rg'd. 2 Sunk Mangawhare Wharf, Kaipara N.N.E. Light .. „ 14 Petone, s.s., 6 years Schooner 388 17 Ballast.. Crowns of furnace fell in Greymouth Calm .. J. Christian. „ 20 Cape Corrientes, s.s., 15 years Schooner 1660 28 Ballast.. Stranded; I no damage Egg Bank, Dog Point, Kaipara E.S.E. Strong Edmund Jones. „ 30 Lutterworth, 38 years Barque 887 18 i Ballast.. Dismasted 22 miles N. by E.JE. of Kaikoura Peninsula S. Moderate gale H. L. Hicks. Oct. 10 Port Stephens, s.s. 12 years Schooner 2278 33 Ballast.. Broken shaft; abandoned Long. 164° 40' E., Lat. 45° 50' S. Strong breeze Arthur Edwin Jolly. N.N.W. „ 17 Tarawera, s.s., 24Jyears] Schooner 1269 53 b'w'n 50 & 60 General Fire; partial loss Bay of Plenty S.W. Moderate John T. Rolls. Nov. 7 I BadenJ-?Powell, s.s., 6tyears Schooner Produce Stranded; partial loss Bar, Manawatu River Strong breeze W. McGavin Muir. 92 12 N.W.

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Date of Vessel's Name, Age, Casualty. and Class, Big. CD S) •a § Number of Nature of Number of Lives Place where Cas oocurred. Wim Directien. Wind. id. Force. Finding of Court of Inquiry. i Name of Master. s Passengers. Cargo. Casualty, I 1906. Deo. 14 Elverland, 11 years Barquentine 361 11 Coal Fou n d e r e d ; total loss About 3 miles N.E. of Three Kings S.E. Light .. Vessel was becalmed between Three Kings Islands and Cape Maria, and during a dense fog in the night drifted close up to the islands. Whilst the boats were engaged towing her off she struck a rock, sprung a leak, and finally sank. The casualty might have been avoided if the lead had been used or bearings been taken to ascertain if vessel was drifting While working out to get clear of Jervois Quay the vessel's stern struck the wharf, causing damage to the vessel to the extent of about £150, and splitting corner pile of the wharf S. E. Savory. 18 Wellington Harbour Penguin, s.s., 42 years Schooner 517 40 80 General Damaged stern N.N.E. Squally S. Kennedy. 1907. Jan. 16 Storm, s.s., 3 years Schooner Coal .. Stranded; slight damage Wanganui River Bar Strong Casualty caused by heavy fresh in river causing bar to silt up A. Irvine. 186 15 W.N.W. „ 26 Purau, s.s. Ketch .. 39 not r'g'd 200 :| Calm ! The vessels came into collision owing to neglect on part of the master of the " Purau," and error of judgment on part of the master of " John Anderson." Court ordered one moiety of costs of inquiry to be paid by each master The vessel settled down on the fluke of her anchor, the ebb-tide running ; the anchor entered her side, causing her to sink. She was subsequently raised, slipped and repaired The master committed an error of judgment in leaving the wharf under the circumstances without a tug. The negligence was not sufficiently serious to warrant the Court dealing with his certificate Schooner " Awanui " failed to stay and the wind being very light, the vessels collided, the jib-boom of the " Awanui" being carried away While vessel on a voyage from Whangaroa to Auckland flax and tow in after hold caught fire, no cause being ascertainable. Fire brigade and fire-float gave assistance, but vessel had to be scuttled to finally extinguish the fire Matthew Mark Thomas. Schooner Collision; no damage Purau Bay «. „ 26 *-. 27 John Anderson, s.s., 15 years Mabel, scow, 25 years Schooner 36 49 5 3 180 Timber Found e red; partial loss Auckland Harbour .. s. Light .. John McDonald Etheridge. Thomas Dowd. „ 28 Wai-iti 15 years Barque Ballast.. Capsized; total wreck (since refloated) Mangawhare, Kaipara E.N.E. Fresh breeze Wm. Cormack. 690 15 Feb. 1 Waikonini, 6 years Awanui, 16 years Greyhound, s.s., 8 years Schooner Ballast.. LModerate -j R. M. Cliffe. „ 1 n 2 Schooner Schooner 60 85 83 4 6 7 Ballast.. gum Collision no damage Collision; slight damagej Fire; £25 damage „ }.. J 12 miles E. of Anaura, Poverty Bay Auckland Harbour .. N.E. N. P. Bonfield. Alfred Subitzky. Fresh breeze [

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Date of Casualty. Vessel's Name, Age, and Class. Kig. CD Oil tec CD O P5EH Number of | IPasseng I gers. Nature of Cargo. Casualty. Number of Lives lost. Place where Casualty occurred. Wind. Finding of Court of Inquiry, dfcc. Name of 1907. Feb. 5 6 Admiral, lighter, 30 years Awarua, p.s., 23 years Ketch .. Schooner 40 . 3 Wool .. Ballast. . Foundered; partial loss ; refloated Stranded; total wreck Napier Harbour .. N. Light .. 1 mile from Kauri N.W. Light .. Mountain, Whangarei Heads Cause of casualty was the anchor went through the bow of the vessel and caused a leak, but how this happened is not known. Vessel was towed on to a bank, where cargo was discharged and damage repaired The " Awarua," in charge of an A.B., the master being engaged in mate's duties, struck on uncharted rocks, and became a total wreck. Movables were salved by s.s. " Pelican" and boats. In view of evidence given at Magisterial inquiry master should have been warned of rocks in the vicinity of his course. Vessel driven ashore by a sudden tempest of wind and sea from an unexpected quarter The master during thick stormy weather shortran his distance to clear Cape Maria Van Diemen, and was driven ashore. Probable cause, strong adverse currents and bad weather Grounded on a sand-bank (uncharted), and was towed off by the s.s. " Invercargill " on 1st March Court found that master was greatly to blame for not taking the usual precautions in foggy weather. Certificate suspended for six months. Considered that the mate was also to blame, and ordered that he pay £5 5s. towards costs of inquiry No observations for correction of compasses were obtainable for severa days prior to the wreck, and the vessel got out of her course and went ashore in a dense fog, becoming a total wreck When vessel was about seven miles from land Gustave Hankey, A.B., was missed, and though vessel was brought up in the wind and look-out kept up for an hour no sign of the missing man could be found One of the party threw a lighted match into a pool of benzine, which flared up and scorched the woodwork of the boat The vessel not answering her helm properly stranded, owing to the jobble of the sea in a tortuous channel J. C. Tonkin. L. A. McLean. _ 54 7 tt 14 14 Rock Lily, 20 years Bravo, scow, 10 years Ketch .. Schooner 50 4 Ballast.. Stranded; partial loss Stranded; partial loss, refloated h mile N. of Mercury S.E. Gale .. Bay i 8 miles S.E. of Cape N.N.E. Moderate Maria Van Diemen P. Bonfield. 99 5 Timber Charles Nelson. 15 Rimu, s.s., 9 years Schooner Timber & wool Stranded; no damage Paterson's Inlet, Stew- .. Calm .. art Island J. A. Bergquist. 144 16 Rakiura, s.s., 29 years Schooner 81 Ballast. . Stranded; no damage Korora Creek, Moly- S.S.E. Light . . neux Bay S.S.E. W. M. Dudfield 10 17 Marguerite Mirabaud Barque (French) Stranded; total loss Akatore, Otago .. E.S.E. Light .. J. M. Tattevin. 1731 24 Coal, &c. E.S.E. Light .. 20 Waikonini, scow fi years Schooner 60 1 1 Near East Cape .. N. Strong Strong John Brown. X. 23 Matai Oil-launch Fire; slight damage Otago Harbour .. .. Calm .. 12 Calm .. 25 Echo, 2 years.. Schooner Timber Stranded; slight damage N. Spit, Karamea S.W. Light .. River S.W. Light .. Arthur Seeley. 99 * Under 5 tons, not registered.

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Date of Vessel's Name, Casualty- A S e - and Class. Big U CD CD hA si «eh Number of 1 Cargo. Natu Nature of ure of Casualty. Number _ of Lives lost. Place where Casualty occurred. Win Direction. Wind. nd. Force. Finding of Court of Inquiry, &c. Name of Master. is CD Passengers. 1907. Mar. 3 Onslow, 18 years Schooner 16 Fire; slight damage General Stranded; slight damage Timber Lost rudder Tairua, Auckland Fire caused by ignition of signal-lights in lockers Entering Waikawa River against strong ebb tide the vessel was thrown slightly out of her course and grounded on Wallace Rock Heavy sea struck the ship, and carried away the rudder Body found floating in harbour on 3rd April was that of cook of " Rangi," missing since 25th March. At Coroner's inquest verdict of " Found drowned " was returned. The man's name was Daniel McKay Collision with " Rotomahana" took place owing to difference of opinion between the masters as to proper course in narrow waters J. Stenhouse. „ 14 Invercargill, s.s., 22 years Schooner 123 II 1 i Wallace J Rock, Waikawa River, Southland Lat, 36° 5' S., Long. 159° 40' E. : Wellington Harbour Calm .. J. Gillies. „ 17 Ururoa, 6 years Schooner 196 S.E. Gale John Bushell. About 25 Rangi, scow, 2 years Schooner 86 Loss of life Geo. Sorenson. Kestrel, 2 years Ferrysteamer Schooner I 5 ( Collision; trifling damage General \ I Collision; triflGeneral j ing damage Matthew Scott. 25 204 100 Auckland Harbour .. S. N.E. Light Light ( »» 25 Rotomahana, s.s. 31 years Kanieri, s.s., 21 years Dawn, s.s. 139 13 41 Arthur Stephenson. Thomas Mayers. 26 Schooner 116 ! 14 15 Collision took place owing to difference of opinion between masters as to the rule of the road in harbours or narrow waters j Auckland Harbour .. 26 Ketch .. Not r'g'd 36 3 Hugh Bartholomew Kelly. Samuel West29 Argus, 53 years Ketch .. 3 Coal .. Stranded; no damage Haulashoi;e Island, Nelson Harbour N.E. Strong gale Vessel touched the ground aft when caught in the eddy of the ebb-tide and would not then come about rupp.

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Casualties on or near the Coasts of the Colony. Casualties outside the Colony. Steamers. Sa Sailing-vessels. Total within Colony. Steamers. Sail ling-vessels. Total outside Colony. CD CO q CO ce o— o"3 ce o-h H - CO . r, H -CO iOQ oco a oa > 3 r5£ Kg g -H.£ EH I J > EH J of Casualties reported. Nature of Casualty. -— 00 CD Do a a o CO "h O ■£» Or- OrrH > CD 3 a a Eh O CD a "gr5 g> : CH.O _• co e .co O CO 5 r, CD <d a o; <H rl O g = o- Ceo O co O CD 6 to O to 6 i a . a o •23 O CD Stran dings, — Total wrecks Partial loss Slight damage No damage 3 6 4 9 I 156 430 541 8,292 9,419 11 6 2 3 1 3,065 149 311 36 •• 9 B 7 10 3,221 579 852 8,328 11 •• •• " " .. " I , ■■ I " .. 9 8 7 10 3,221 579 852 8,328 11 .. .. ! - Total strandings 22 ; 11 12 3,561 11 1 : i i 34 12,980 34 j 12,980 •' 11 Foundered, — Total loss Partial loss 1 1 I 12 2 2 2 458 89 5 4 2 470 89 7 I 4 2 470 89 .. .. 7 •• Total foundered 2 12 2 4 547 5 6 I 559 7 I 6 ! 559 Capsized, — Total loss Partial loss I ■ I 1 1 95 93 4 6 1 1 95 93 4 6 I I i 1 1 95 93 4 6 Total capsized I ! 2 188 188 10 ! 1 1 2 .. 10 2 - •• 188 10 Collisions, — Partial loss Slight damage No damage 1 6 8 49 2,488 2,602 1 1 "85 60 1 7 9 49 2,573 2,662 1 1,901 .. .. 1 1,901 I " 2 7 9 1,950 2,573 •2,662 7,185 1 •■ .. .. " Total collisions.. 15 5,139 j 2 145 1 17 5,284 1 1,901 1 1,901 18 .. Fires,— Total loss Partial loss 1 6 15 5,480 5,495 2,164 1 6 15 5,480 1 6 15 5,480 - .. .. Total fires I 7 7 5,495 \ 7 5,495 5,860 Miscellaneous, including damage by heavy seas to hull and cargo, loss of masts, sails, &c, breakdown of machinery and abandonment 10 4 1,418 ! 14 3,582 1 2,278 ■■ 1 2,278 15 Total casualties to shipping Loss of life only 56 ' 6 I 22,229 3,672 13 6 24 4 5,859 406 15 4 80 10 28,088 4,078 28 10 2 1 2 4,179 1 |5,401 I 32,267 9,479 4,179 5,401 1 1 82 11 2,8 11 Total number of casualties reported 62 25,901 119 28 6,265 19 90 ! ! I 3 9,580 1 3 9,580 1 — 41,746 I 32,166 I 38 •• ■■ ■ • 93 39

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Port or Place. Subject of Notice. Auckland .. .. .. Rock being deposited off Acheron Point, Freeman's Bay. .. Prohibitions with regard to anchorages within the harbour. .. Explosives anchorage. „ .. .. Lights on Railway Wharf. .. Erection of dolphin in Freeman's Bay. Bluff Harbour .. .. .. Lightship sunk. Place temporarily marked by black buoy. .. Substitution of pile beacons for buoys. Bream Island .. .. .. Awarua Rock and cluster of rocks off Ooean Bay. Bruce Bay and Jackson's Pay .. Uncharted rocks. Cape Egmont (265 miles therefrom) Temporary cable-buoys. Cape Kidnappers .. Error in oharted position of coast-line. Croixelles Harbour ... .. Telegraph-cable laid; Hauraki Gulf .. .. .. Uncharted rocks off Kawau and Little Barrier Islands. Hokianga River .. .. .. I Alteration in channel. Jack's Point, Timaru .. .. Alteration in lights. Kaipara Harbour .. .. Additional leading-beacon for harbour-entranoe. „ .. .. Light at Pouto Point. Little Barrier and Kawau Islands | Rock off north-west shore. Manukau Harbour .. .-. Depth of water in the channels. .. : Red light at signal-station when bar unsafe for vessels to proceed to sea. Manawatu Heads .. .. Alteration in position of lights. New Plymouth .. .. .. Alteration to lower leading-beacon. Oamaru Harbour .. .. Dredge-moorings. Otago Harbour .. .. Fog-signal, Taiaroa Head. .. Harrington Point: Old-channel buoy removed ; new channel-beacons and buov. Pelorus Sound .. .. .. Buoy placed over Dart Rock. Port Ahuriri .. .. .. Soundings off Pania Reef. .. Auckland Rock and buoys. ,, .. .. ■ .. ! Red leading-light on Breakwater Wharf. Three Kings Islands .. .. Non-existence of charted islets. „ .. .. Provision-depot. Tory Channel .. .. .. Telegraph-cable laid. Wairau Bar .. .. .. Mooring-buoy laid. Wanganui River .. Lights to be exhibited during carrying-out of harbour-works „ .. .. Directions for vessels entering. Wellington .. .. .. Lights for Taranaki Street Wharf. .. Low-level light at entrance to harbour. Westport .. .. .. Electric lights shown from Denniston. » .. .. .. Electric lights Bhown. Error in notice. General .. .. .. " New Zealand Nautical Almanac " published. Rktuen showing the Orders in Council which have been issued during the Year ended 31st March, 1907. Date of Order. Date of Order. "umose of Order. 1906. April 6 l f\f\a 6 6 6 6 18 18 18 30 30 30 May 8 8 8 4 1906. April 6 Approves plans of footbridge, boat-shed, and slip, Picton. Authorises Picton Borough Council to construct same. ,, 6 Approves plans of Mr. Thomas Begg's wharf, Anderson's Bay, Otago Harbour. „ 6 Licenses Mr. Thomas Begg to occupy foreshore, Anderson's Bay, Otago Harbour. ,, 6 Makes regulations for examination and licensing of colonial pilots. ,, li Licenses Borough Council to occupy foreshore for wharf-site, Akaroa Harbour, and fixes wharf dues. ,,' 18 Fixes dues for Sounds Co-operative Company's wharf, Paradise Bay, Pelorus Sound. ,, 18 Approves plans of wharf at Horeke. ,, 18 Licenses Hokianga County Council to occupy foreshore as wharf-site, Horeke. ,, 30 Prescribes oyster-license fee for North Island. ,, 30 Approves plan and authorises construction of tram-line from Otatara to Invercargill. „ 30 Approves expenditure by Westport Harbour Board of sums for waiting-room, Westport, and goods-shed, Seddonville. May 8 Approves expenditure by Westport Harbour Board for railway-carriage accommodation. ,, 8 Approves plans of Mr. C. Gothard's wharf, Whangaroa. „ 8 Licenses C. Gothard to occupy foreshore, Whangaroa, as wharf-site. ,, 4 Approves plans of outfall drain from Messrs. Dyinock and Co., and Banks' Co-operative Meat-works, Ngahauranga. „ 12 Revokes Order in Council licensing Joseph Fell to occupy foreshore, Hokianga Harbour. ,, 12 Extends close season for seals. ,, 23 Approves plans of removal of Thorndon Yacht Club's house, and construction of boat-slip. ,, 23 Approves plans of extension of Monck's jetty, Sumner, and construction of boat-skids by Lyttelton Harbour Board. ,, 23 Approves plans of Eastern Breakwater, Westport Harbour. ,, 23 Approves plans of Waitemata County Council's wharf, Deep Creek. „ 23 Licenses Waitemata County Council to occupy foreshore, Deep Creek, Hauraki Gulf. ,, 23 Appoints member of Greymouth Harbour Board. „ 23 Makes regulations under " Sea-fisheries Act, 1894." June 1 Approves plans of Devonport Steam Ferry Company's wharf, Brown's Island. ,, 1 Licenses Devonport Steam Ferry Company to occupy foreshore, Brown's Island, as wharf-site. ,, I Approves plans of boatshed and stage for Kaipara Union Amateur Boating Club, Te Kopuru. ,, 1 Licenses Kaipara Union Amateur Boating Club to occupy foreshore, Te Kopuru. ,, 1 Approves plan of Mangonui County Council's goods-shed and additions to Awanui wharf. 12 12 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 June 1 1 I 1 1

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Date of Order. Purpose of Order. 1906. Licenses Mangonui County Council to occupy foreshore, Awanui River, for goods-shed and wharf. Approves plans of Awhitu Road Board's shed and extension of Graham's Beach wharf. Licenses Awhitu Road Board to occupy foreshore, Graham's Beach, as wharf-site. Approves plans of Amos McKegg's wharves, Taieri Mouth. Licenses Amos McKegg to occupy foreshore, Taieri Mouth, as wharf-sites. Approves plans of wharf and breastwork, Kaiapoi. Approves plans of Dive and Ramsay's wharf, Hokianga Harbour. _.(. . Licenses Dive and Ramsay to occupy foreshore, Hokianga Harbour-, as wharf-site. Approves plans of jetty, landings, &c, Birkenhead. Approves plans of wharf, north-east of Glasgow Wharf, Wellington. Approves plans of boat-slip, Port Moeraki. Licenses Waitaki County Council to occupy foreshore, Port Moeraki, as site for boat-slip. Approves plans of Westport floating-basin. Prescribes dues and rates for Kohukohu County wharf. Prescribes dues and rates for Rawene County wharf. Hakes regulations for loading and storage of ballast. Makes regulations for controlling traffic on Lake Rotoiti and management of wharves, and prescribes dues for same. Approves plans of extension of Orua Bay wharf. Licenses Awhitu Road Board to occupy foreshore, Manukau Harbour, for extension to Orua Bay wharf. Approves plans of Northern Coal Company's wharf and bridge at Ngunguru. Licenses Northern Coal Company to occupy foreshore, Ngunguru, as wharf and bridge sites. Approves plans of Levin and Co.'s mooring-piles, Foxton Harbour. Licenses Levin and Co. to occupy foreshore, Foxton Harbour, as site for mooring-posts. Approves expenditure of £125 by Westport Harbour Board on verandah at Waimangaroa Station. Approves plans of wharf-extension and erection of shed by Messrs. Prouse and Saunders at West Wanganui. Licenses Prouse and Saunders to occupy foreshore, West Wanganui, for wharf-extension and shed. Approves plans of extension of Karamea Sawmilling Company s wharf, Karamea. Licenses Karamea Sawmilling Company to occupy foreshore, Karamea, for wharf-extension. Prescribes dues and rates for Rawene County wharf. Prescribes dues and rates for Kohukohu County wharf. Approves plans of E. G. Pilcher's tramway, Pakawau. Licenses E. G. Pilcher to occupy foreshore, Pakawau, as tramway-site. Approves alteration of site for erection of Ohinemuri County bridge over Wailiou River at Mangaiti. Issues Commission to inquire into and report on cause of fires on ships carrying wool, &c. Approves plans of E. G. Pilcher's wharf, Pakawau. Licenses E. G. Pilcher to occupy foreshore, Pakawau, as wharf-site. Varies rules as to life-saving appliances for ships. Extends time for report by Commission of Inquiry into cause of fires on ships carrying wool, &o, Revokes Order in Council authorising construction of tram-line across New River Estuary, and authorises construction of work on new plan. Approves plans of cattle-yards and slip alongside Raupo wharf. Declares County Council shall exercise powers of Harbour Board, Kawliia, and defines limits of harbour. Revokes license to Havelock Town Board to occupy foreshore as wharf-site, and vests management of wharf in Havelock Harbour Board. Fixes dues for Waiwera wharf. Approves plans of D. G. Lane's wharf, Rawene, Hokianga. Licenses D. G. Lane to occupy foreshore, Rawene, Hokianga, as wharf-site. Prescribes class of boats to be carried by fishing-vessels. Approves plans of C. J. Brunsell's boat-slip, Picton Harbour. Approves plans of Waikokopu Harbour Board's tramway and shed. Approves plans of New Zealand Portland Cement Company's wharf-extension, Limestone Island, Whangarei. Licenses New Zealand Portland Cement Company to occupy foreshore, Limestone Island, Whangarei. Approves plans of Mrs. E. Nield's wharf, Wairoa River, Kaipara. Licenses Mrs. E. Nield to occupy foreshore, Wairoa River, Kaipara, as wharf-site. Approves plans of Ramsay Bros, and Eyes's boat shed and slip, Rawene, Hokianga. Licenses Ramsay Bros, and Eyes to occupy foreshore, Rawene, Hokianga, as site for boat shed and slip. Approves modification of plan of bridge across Xew River Estuary for Invercargill Borough Council's tram-line. Approves plans of harbour-works, Puponga Harbour-. Authorises Puponga Coal and Gold-mining Company to carry out harbour-works, Puponga Harbour. Licenses C. J. Brunsell to occupy foreshore, Picton Harbour, as site for boat-slip. Extends time for report of Wool Fires Commission. Makes regulations for safe navigation of harbours. Approves plans and authorises construction of bridge over Ohinemuri River at Paeroa. Approves plans of J. .McLaren's wharf, Wairoa River, Kaipara Harbour. Licenses J. McLaren to occupy foreshore, Wairoa River, Kaipara Harbour, as wharf-site. Approves plans of borough baths, Bluff Harbour. Licenses Campbelltown Borough Council to occupy foreshore, Bluff Harbour, as site for baths. Approves plans of wharf, Tamaki River. Licenses Otahuhu Road Board to occupy foreshore, Tamaki River, as wharf-site, and fixes dues for sameConsents to lease of land by Thames Harbour Board to H. H. Adams and others. Approves expenditure by Westport Harbour Board for water-supply, &c, on Westport-Mokihinui Railway. Authorises Westport Harbour Board to expend £13.000 on additional hopper coal-wagons. Makes additional regulations for loading and stowage of ballast. Extends time for report of Wool Fires Commission. Revokes license to Harry Couch to occupy foreshore, Bon Accord Harbour, Kawau Island, as wharf-site. Licenses A. J. Farmer to occupy foreshore, Bon Accord Harbour, Kawau Island, as wharf-site. Approves plan and licenses Sumner Borough Council to occupy foreshore for artesian wells June 1 ", 11 11 11 11 11 11 28 28 28 28 July 9 12 12 12 12 12 12 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 Arrg.. 2 6 6 18 27 Sept., 3 3 3 10 10 17 17 17 24 24 24 24 ' „ 24 24 24 24 24 Oct. 2 2 2 2 8 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 22 22 22 29 29 29

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Return showing the Orders in Council which have been issued during the Year ended 31st March, 1907— continued.

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Date of Order. Purpose of Order. 1906. Approves plan and authorises erection of tramway viaduct near Cave Rock, Sumner. Revokes license to S. J. Deck to occupy foreshore, Golden Bay, Stewart Island, as site for boat-shed. Licenses J. W. Squires to occupy foreshore, Golden Bay, Stewart Island, as site for boat-shed. Fixes dues for Amos MeKegg's wharves, Taieri Mouth. Vests management of wharf in Kawhia County Council as Harbour- Board, and fixes dues for same. Fixes pilotage for Karamea. Extends time for report of Commission on Wool-ship's fires, &c. Approves construction of bridge by Picton Borough Council. Revokes existing regulations, and makes new ones, for loading and stowage of ballast. Approves plan and authorises cutting of channel through Wairau Boulder Bank. Approves plan of extension of Miramar Wharf, Wellington Harbour. Approves plan of G. B. Watson's tram-line, West Wpnganui. Licenses G. B. Watson to occupy foreshore, West Wanganui, as site for tram-line. Approves plans of Port Awanui wharf. Licenses Apirana T. Ngata and others to occupy foreshore, Port Awanui, as wharf-site. Approves plans of Mason Bros, and Walker's booms, Whirinaki River, Hokianga. Licenses Mason Bros, and Walker- to occupy foreshore, Whirinaki River, Hokianga, as site for booms. Nov. 6 6 8 6 26 26 Dec. 3 3 3 10 10 10 10 17 17 21 21 1907. Jan. 7 7 7 7 7 21 21 21 Feb. 7 7 7 7 7 Approves plans of R. T. Wrathall's building, Mangonui Harbour. Licenses R. T. Wrathall to occupy foreshore, Mangonui Harbour, as building-site. Approves plans of Levin and Co.'s wharves, Manawatu River. Licenses Levin and Co. to occupy foreshore, Manawatu River, as site for wharves. Extends time in which Wool Fires Commission may report. Appoints members of Greymouth Harbour Board. Approves plans of D. Goldie's timber booms, Hobson's Bav, Auckland. Appoints trustee for Cape Turnagain landing. Approves plans of wharf, Little Shag Creek, Tokatoka. Licenses Otamatea County Council to occupy foreshore, Little Shag Creek, Tokatoka, as wharf-site. Approves expenditure on coal-loading crane-wharf, by Westport Harbour Board. Approves plans of Northern Steamship Company's wharf, Awaroa Bay, Waiheke Island. Licenses Northern Steamship Company to occupy foreshore, Awaroa Bay, Waiheke Island, as wharfsite. 7 7 Approves reclamation of 8] acres by Bluff Harbour Board. Extends hour for- closing poll for- election of Lyttelton Harbour Board members by ratepayers of New Brighton, Woolston, and Sumner. Extends time for report by Wool Commission. Approves expenditure for shed at or near Crane Wharf by Westport Harbour Board. Grants pension to W. Cunningham, late light-keeper, Nelson. Approves plans of approaches to cargo-shed, Waikokopu. Fixes time and place for first election of members, Hokitika Harbour Board. Extends close season for seals. 16 16 27 March 5 13

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