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698 THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 24, 1930
6.---Signals.
To send and receive signals in:
(a) British Semaphore up to eight words per minute
(b) Morse Code by flash lamp up to six words per
minute.
(c) International Code of Signals.
7.-—Practical.
(4) To read and understand a barometer, thermometer, hydrometer and hygrometer (The instruments supplied by the Meteorological Office will be taken as standard.)
(b) To use an azimuth mirror, pelorus (bearing plate) or other instrument for taking bearings; to place these bearings on a chart, having corrected for given compass error.
(c) To use a sextant for taking vertical and horizontal angles; to read a sextant both on and off the arc.
(4) To correct a sextant into which has been introduced some or all of perpendicularly, side and index errors.
(e) To find the index error of a given sextant.
(f) To check chronometers by signal made by buzzer or other method; to compare two chronometers.
8.--The Examiner may ask the candidate questions aris- ing out of the written work, if he deems it necessary on ac- count of weakness shown by the candidate. (This applies particularly to Paper 5.)
FIRST MATE (FOREIGN-GOING).
38. Qualifications.*. A candidate must not be less than twenty-one and a half years of age, and must have served five and a half years at sea in foreign-going ships or the equivalent, eight years and three months, in home trade ships (see rules 64 and 65). This period of sea service must include either
(a) Eighteen months in a capacity not lower than that of third of three watchkeeping officers on a foreign going ship whilst holding a certificate as Second Mate of a foreign-going ship (see also par. 70); or
(b) Two years and three months in a capacity not lower than that of First or Only Mate of a home trade ship whilst holding a certificate as Second Mate of a foreign-going ship (see also par. 66 for conditions under which service as Second Mate of a home trade ship may be accepted).
39. First Mate, Special Rules applying only where a candidate has served continuously with the same Company as apprentice and junior officer.—A candidate who has served continuously with the same Company or shipping firm as apprentice and junior officer may be allow- ed to present himself for examination for a certificate as First Mate on completion of two years' service, performed while holding a Second Mate's certificate, as the junior of two bridge keeping officers of the watch, provided that the whole of this service has been performed upon ocean-going steamships of
*For convenience of calculation the service required is stated in a tabular form in Appendix C.
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