AGENT-GENERAL, LONDON.

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Enclosure in No. 14. Conditions op Contract made with the Agent-Geneeal for the Colony of New Zealand (referred to as the party of the first part), by Messrs. Shaw, Saville, and Company (referred to as the party of the second part), for the conveyance of emigrants from London and (or) Plymouth to New Zealand for twelve months ending tho 7th March. 1873. 1. The ship shall be approved of by the party of the first part, and shall be fitted and provided to his satisfaction with sufficient scuttles, deck-lights, and ventilation. Also with proper bed-places, seats, tables, water-closets, urinals and shoots, hospitals, and dispensary, the latter to be exclusive of the space measured off' for the passengers ; a pump and hose for drawing water from the hold, cookingapparatus, oven, baking-troughs, and other requisites for baking bread, similar to those in use on board the ships employed by Her Majesty's Emigration Commissioners, to be approved of by the party of the first part. Also with the articles mentioned in Schedule A hereunto annexed, and with whatever else the said party of the first part may deem necessary for the cleanliness of the ship, and the convenience and safety of the passengers. 2. The 'tween-decks shall be divided for passengers into three compartments only, viz., for single men, married couples, and single women; and there shall bo at least one separate hatchway and ladder-way from each compartment to the upper deck. 3. An issuing room, of dimensions approved by the party of the first part, shall be provided, either on the passenger deck or on some part of the main deck, whence the provisions shall be issued daily to the passengers as hereinafter provided. The issuing room to be fitted with counter, scales and weights, and all other requisites. 4. Two hospitals shall be provided : one for men, wdiich may be in the single men's compartment of the 'tween-decks, and another for women and children, which shall be in the- married people's compartment. Such hospitals to be of the form and dimensions required by the Passengers' Act. A bath room with bath and proper appliances for obtaining a sufficient supply of water shall be provided for the use of the single women in their compartment, and to be in all respects to the satisfaction of the party of the first part. 5. Tho party of the second part shall at his expense, and to the satisfaction of the party of the first part, provide and fit up on a covered space in the upper deck an apparatus for distilling fresh from salt water, either Normandy's, Winchester's, Gravely's, or Chaplin's, of a size calculated to supply not less than five hundred gallons of water in twenty-four hours ; and shall provide a person competent to manage the apparatus, and shall keep the same working throughout every day at the ship's expense as long as there are any passengers on board ; and shall make all issues of water to the passengers, as far as practicable, from the water so distilled ; but in the event of any ship conveying less than 100 adult emigrants, it shall not be compulsory for the party of the second part to provide a distilling apparatus for such ship. 6. All the fittings shall be completed, the cargo, provisions, and water shipped and stowed away — space being left in an approved part of the ship for the emigrants' baggage, as hereinafter provided— the 'tween-decks cleared, and the ship in all respects ready for the reception of the passengers twentyfour hours before noon of the day named as the embarkation day. The passengers shall then be received on board with their baggage, and the victualling of them shall commence, and no other cargo shall be shipped. And in the event of the ship not being ready in all respects, of which the party of the first part shall be the sole judge, the said party of the first part shall in his discretion provide the passengers with board and lodging on. shore until these preparations shall have been completed to his satisfaction, and shall deduct the expenses so incurred out of the first moneys becoming due to the party of the second part under this agreement. 7. The party of the second part shall provide a purser, whose duty it shall be to issue to the passengers daily the provisions and water to which they are entitled, according to the underwritten dietary scale. 8. The party of the second part shall also provide for the exclusive use of the passengers a competent baker and a cook, and in case the ship shall carry more than three hundred statute adults, two cooks shall be provided. 9. The purser, baker, and cook shall be approved respectively by the party of the first part. 10. The party of the first part shall appoint a surgeon to each ship. The surgeon will be an officer of the ship, and be borne on the articles. Instructions will be issued to him (copy annexed) as respects the Government emigrants, and the party of the second part shall stipulate expressly with the captain that those instructions shall be respected and carried out. The surgeon shall be provided by the party of the second part with a separate cabin, and a first-class passage, with forty cubical feet of space in the hold for luggage, and an allowance of one bottle of ale daily, and three bottles of wine weekly. 11. Tho party of the first part will not interfere in the appointment of the captain or any of the officers or crew of the ship, but it shall be competent to him, if ho should have good and sufficient reason to do so, to direct the removal of any or either of them, and the party of the second part shall remove them and appoint others. The party of the first part will also issue instructions to the captain, as respects the Government emigrants (copy annexed), and the like undertaking shall be taken by the party of the second part, from him, that they will be faithfully observed. 12. Excepting stress of weather, or some other sufficient cause, the ship shall leave the docks and proceed down the river on the day following that on which the passengers are placed on board, and shall be ready for inspection by the Government Inspector on the day following. 13. The party of the second part shall place on board the ship, on the embarkation day, a competent person approved of by the party of the first part, whose duty it shall be to superintend the embarkation arrangements, to put the passengers into their proper berths, to see that efficient provision is made for victualling them, and generally to do what is necessary to their convenience. The passengers shall be correctly messed on being placed on board, and the person now referred to 5