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107. Compass deviation. In answering questions on the tentative method of compass adjustment, the candidate will be tested by Beall's Compass Deviascope.
108. Sextant. Particular attention should be paid to the sextant, the examination in which will be conducted orally and practically. Every candidate will be required to measure both vertical and horizontal angles, and will be examined practically as to his knowledge of the adjustments and the use of the various screws; he must be able to read correctly on and off the are, and must also be able to find the index error both by the horizon and by the sun.
109. Rule of the Road. In the examination on Rule of the Road the Examiner's duty will be to test the candidate's knowledge of the sense and intention of the Articles of the Collision Regulations. Mere ability to repeat the Articles word for word will not suffice to ensure the candidate's pass- ing, nor will the lack of it necessarily entail failure provided the Examiner is satisfied that the candidate grasps the full significance, content, and practical application of the Articles. Examiners will ask for the content of the Articles not by their number, but by the subject with which they deal, and they will discourage the use by candidates of verses as aids to memorising the Articles. Examiners will not place a can- didate for a steamship certificate in the position of handling a sailing ship, but will lay stress on the candidate's ability to recognise a sailing ship's lights and on his knowledge of a sailing ship's possible manoeuvres according to the direction
of the wind.
110. No candidate to be examined in successive weeks.—A candidate will not be allowed to undergo examina- tion for the same grade of certificate twice in successive weeks, unless, under very special and urgent circumstances, the Examiner should see fit to relax this rule.
111. Penalty for breach of rules.- Any candidate violating any of the regulations, or being guilty of insolence to the Examiner, or of disorderly or improper conduct in or about the room, will render himself liable to the postpone- ment of his examination, or, if he has passed, to the detention of his certificate for such period as the Governor may direct.
D. W. TRATMAN,
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26th November, 1970.
APPENDIX A.
Clerk of Councils.
EXAMINATION IN SIGNALLING.
The examination in Signalling, in all cases in which it is required for a certificate of competency, will consist of an examination in the International Code, the Allied Signal Manual, Morse Flashing, and Semaphore.
The examination in Signalling should in all cases and for all. grades consist of an examination in the International Code, the Allied Signal Manual, Morse Flashing and Semaphore.
International Code.—Examiners are recommended to frame the examination in the International Code of Signals, upon the instruc- tions and illustrations given at the commencement of Parts I. and II. of the Signal Book. The information there given will be found sufficient to indicate all the characteristics of the Code.
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