84 AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

SCHEDULE.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

By Thomas Bannatyne Gillies, Esquire,
Superintendent of the Province of Auckland.

By virtue of the powers to me delegated by the Governor in Council, under his hand and the Public Seal of the Colony under “The Gold Mining Districts Act, 1871,” I do hereby make the following Rules and Regulations for the Hauraki Gold Mining District within the Province of Auckland.

Given under my hand at Auckland this twenty second day of January, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.

Thomas B. Gillies,
Superintendent.

REGULATIONS FOR THE HAURAKI GOLD MINING DISTRICT.

Interpretation.

1. In these Regulations—

Warden—shall mean any Warden appointed for the said District.

Miner, person, owner, and claim—shall include the plural as well as the singular.

Miner—shall mean the holder of a Miner’s Right.

Person—shall include corporations and incorporated companies.

Claim—shall include both claims and licensed holdings save where otherwise expressed.

Mine (verb)—shall mean mining for gold or any operation necessarily connected therewith.

Mine (noun)—shall mean any shaft, tunnel or excavation made for the purpose of gold mining.

Day—shall mean a working day, exclusive of Sundays and Holidays.

The Act—shall mean “The Gold Mining Districts Act, 1871.”

Miners’ Rights.

2. Miners’ Rights shall be issued by the Receivers of Revenue at Grahamstown and Coromandel.

Production of Miners’ Rights.

3. Every holder of a Miner’s Right must exhibit the same on demand of the Warden or any person duly authorised in writing by him.

Management and Administration of District.

4. The management and administration of the affairs of that portion of the district lying north of the Waikawau Block shall be conducted by the Warden for the time being resident at Coromandel, and of the portion lying south of the said boundary by the Warden for the time being resident at Grahamstown.

Plans to be approved.

5. Every plan lodged under section 12 of the Act must be subject to the approval of the Warden.

Claims to be marked.

6. There shall be erected and maintained on every claim in some conspicuous place near to the entrance to the workings thereof, a board not less than five feet above the ground, on which shall be painted in legible characters (1) the name of the claim, (2) the number of men’s ground contained in it, (3) the number of men authorised by the Warden from time to time to hold and work the same.

Working of Claims.

7. Every claim shall be bond fide and continuously worked from day to day, unless protected, or sufficient reason from some urgent cause be proved to the satisfaction of the Warden.

8. Necessary preparations for working any claim or work in connection therewith, or in the erection of machinery for the same, shall be deemed to be working the claim.

Forfeiture of Claims.

9. No forfeiture of any claim or portion thereof, or of any share or interest therein, shall accrue from non-working through the neglect, absence, or omission on the part of any workman employed thereon or of any tributer. Provided that the owner of such claim, portion, share, or interest shall, without undue delay after notice in writing, signed by the Mining Inspector, served upon him or posted on the claim, proceed to rectify such neglect, absence, or omission.

No Jumping allowed.

10. No person shall take possession of any ground previously held and registered as a claim, or of any registered right or privilege whatsoever, without the consent of the registered owner or the authority of the Warden in writing, unless such claim, right, or privilege has been surrendered or abandoned by entry in the Mining Register.

Injuries to Claims.

11. No person shall remove, injure, destroy, or deface any posts, pegs, logs, fence, notice, or any mining plant of any description, without permission of the owner of the claim on which the same is situate, or interfere with any mark or boundary.

Debris.

12. The owner of any claim who shall be unable to discharge the debris from his workings upon his own or upon unoccupied ground may, on application to the Warden, obtain authority to discharge the same upon or convey the same over any adjacent claim or claims, provided that such discharge or conveyance does not interfere with the working of such adjacent claim or claims.

13. If the owner of any claim shall damage any adjacent claim by the discharge or conveyance on to or over it of any rubbish, tailings, or other debris, the owner of the claim so damaged shall be entitled to recover compensation for such damage by action in the Warden’s Court.

Damage by adjoining working.

14. If the owner of any claim shall have reasonable cause to suspect that his claim is receiving, or is likely to receive, damage from the mode of working any adjoining claim, the Warden may, on complaint to that effect made, order an inspection of such claims at the expense of the complainant, and may, if he shall think fit, order the suspension of the working of such claim or claims until the case shall have been decided by him.

Notice before blasting.

15. Five minutes previous to the discharge of any blast of gunpowder, or other explosive substance...