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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 12, 1910. 69
Suspension or Cancellation of Certificates.
27. Certificates are liable to suspension or cancellation—
Colonial Regulations
(1.) On an investigation ordered by the Governor under 1897.
Ordinance 10 of 1899, into the incompetence or mis- Vara. 11. conduct of the possessors.
(2.) By Courts of Inquiry into shipping casualties under
Ordinance 10 of 1899.
(3.) By Courts of Formal Investigation or Inquiry, or by Naval Courts, under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.
(4.) By legally constituted Courts in any British Possession subject to the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, and the Orders in Council relating thereto.
28. No Certificate which has been cancelled will be re-issued or Ibid. renewed without the express sanction of the Governor.
CHAPTER II.
Qualifications Required for the Various Grades.
Certificates for Foreign-going Ships, or Ordinary Certificates.
29. A Candidate for an Ordinary Certificate of any grade who square- has not previously held an Ordinary Certificate of a lower grade must riged service prove that he has served 12 months in the Foreign Trade, or 18 months required. in the Home, or Coasting Trade, in a square-rigged sailing vessel.
B/T Reg. 09, Sec. 29.
30. Ordinary Certificates will entitle the holders to go to sea as Value of Mates or Masters of any vessel, sailing or steam.
Ordinary Certificates. Ibid. Sec. 30.
31. SECOND MATE.--A Candidate must not be less than seventeen Second Matc years of age, and must have served four years at sea.
Ordinary. Ibid. Sec. 31.
32. EXAMINATION IN NAVIGATION, -A Candidate for a Second Navigation. Mate's Certificate will be required :----
(a.) To write a legible hand and spell correctly. This will be tested by not less than a quarter of an hour's dietation.
(b.) To write short definitions of various astronomical and other terms, and to draw rough sketches or diagrams to illustrate their meaning,
(e.) To show a competent knowledge of the first five rules of
arithmetic and the use of logarithms.
(d.) To work a day's work complete, correcting the courses
for leeway, deviation, and variation.
(e.) To find the latitude by meridian altitude of the sun.
(f.) To work any practical problem in parallel sailing. (g.) To find the true course and distance from one given position to another by Mercator's method; also the compass course, the variation and deviation being given.
(4.) To find the time of high water at a given port.
(i.) To find the true amplitude of the sun and the error of
the
compass therefrom; also the deviation, the variation being given.
(.) To find the longitude by chronometer from altitude of the sun by the usual methods, computing the daily rate of chronometer from errors observed, when required; also to find the true azimuth of the sun, and the error of the compass; and the deviation, the variation being given.
(k.) To find the true azimuth of the sun by the “Time Azi- muth tables; the error of the compass; also the deviation, the variation being given.
Ibid. Sec. 82.