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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 21, 1913.
Colonial Ordinance 10 of 1899, Section 19.
Ibid.
Suspension or Cancellation of Certificates.
27. Certificates are liable to suspension or cancellation-
(1.) On an investigation ordered by the Governor under Ordinance 10 of 1899, into the incompetence or mis- 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 Posses- sion subject to the provisions of the Merchant Ship-
ping Act, 1894, and the Orders in Council relating thereto.
28. No Certificate which has been cancelled will be re-issued or renewed without the express sanction of the Governor.
CHAPTER II.
Square-rigged
service required.
Value of Ordinary Certificates.
Second Mate Ordinary,
Navigation.
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 has not previously held an Ordinary Certificate of a lower grade must prove that he has served 12 months in the Foreign Trade, or 18 months in the Home, or Coasting Trade, in a square-rigged sailing vessel.
30. Ordinary Certificates will entitle the holders to go to sea as Mates or Masters of any vessel, sailing or steam.
31. SECOND MATE.-A Candidate must not be less than seven- teen years of age, and must have served four years at sea.
32. EXAMINATION IN NAVIGATION.-A Candidate for a Second 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 dictation.
(b.) To write short definitions of various astronomical and other terms, and to draw rough sketches or dia- grams to illustrate their meaning.
(c.) 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.
(h.) 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.
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