Auckland Provincia Government Gazette.

any claim, shall be admitted by the other owners of the residue of such claim to a joint ownership with them to the extent of the share or interest of which possession is authorised to be taken, and shall be owner of such share or interest, and as such shall be entitled to have his name placed on the Mining Register in place of the person in whose name the same may be standing.

Notices or pegs not to be destroyed, removed, or injured.

15. No person shall remove, injure, destroy, or deface any posts, pegs, logs, fence, notices, or any mining plant, of whatsoever description, without permission from the owner; or deface, destroy, or remove any notice posted in accordance with the Goldfields Act, or Regulations, or interfere with any mark or boundary.

Fossicking forbidden, and provision made for working Alluvial and Reef Claims on the same ground.

16. No surface digging or fossicking will be allowed by any one in any other miner’s claim. Everything found within the area of such claim shall belong to the owners thereof: Provided that if alluvial gold shall be discovered within any claim under Class No. 2, the Warden shall, on the application in writing of any miner for permission to work the same, give notice to the holder of such claim to place as many miners on the ground as may be necessary to occupy such ground, and if he shall fail to do so within seven days from the date of service of such notice, the Warden may then grant the ground to the applicant, subject to such restrictions as he shall deem fit to prevent injury to the interests of the holder of the claim under Class No. 2.

Tunnelling through unoccupied ground.

17. Any miner holding a claim and wishing to cut a tunnel through unoccupied ground, shall be allowed twenty (20) feet in breadth as a protection for the tunnel for any necessary distance outside the boundary of the claim, and also a space of one hundred and fifty (150) feet square at the mouth of the tunnel, on which to deposit quartz or other substances. Such privileges must be applied for in writing to the Warden, and notice must be posted on the ground for fourteen days previous to granting the application. All privileges of this description must be registered in the Mining Register, and are subject to the provisions of Regulation No. 59.

Tunnelling through occupied ground.

18. The owners of any claim who shall desire to make any level, adit, drive, or tunnel through occupied land shall make application in writing to the Warden for liberty to do so, specifying, as nearly as may be, the portions of such occupied lands as would be used in making such level, adit, drive or tunnel.

19. On receipt of such application, the Warden shall obtain from the Mining Inspector for the field—or, if there be no such Mining Inspector, from some other competent person—a report on the propriety of granting such application, and as to the terms on which the same should be granted.

20. On receipt of such report the Warden may in his discretion refuse such application, or grant the same subject to such terms and conditions as he may think fit, and to payment of such compensation as he may, upon hearing all parties interested and their witnesses adjudge.

21. Along with such application, as aforesaid, shall be paid to the Warden the sum of Five Pounds Five Shillings as a deposit, Three Pounds Three Shillings of which shall be paid as a fee for furnishing such report; and there shall be further payable upon the hearing of any claim for compensation, the usual fees and costs payable in the Warden’s Court, such fees and costs to be payable by such of the parties as the Warden shall adjudge. The balance, if any, may be returned to the applicant.

Protection of claim, and terms of protection.

19. Permission to retain a claim or interest therein unworked may be granted by the Warden, and the same shall be thereon protected for such time as the Warden shall think fit, not exceeding the terms hereinafter mentioned. The causes and time for which a claim may be protected under this regulation shall be as follows, viz:—

20. Any claim having been proved to the satisfaction of the Warden to have been worked by the party wishing to have it protected, for at least three (3) months immediately preceding the application for protection, and no payable quartz having been obtained from such claim for at least one month previous—Three (3) months.

21. The claim having been sunk and worked to the water—the party being unable to overcome the same—the adjoining claims not being down to the water—Three (3) months.

22. Any claim, the holder of which intends to procure machinery for quartz crushing or water baling, during the time of protection, and shall give security by bond or otherwise, to the satisfaction of the Warden that he will procure such machinery within a time to be fixed by the Warden—Three (3) months, and such further time as the Warden shall think fit, not exceeding in the whole twelve (12) months.

23. Any river claim during fluming, race cutting, or other works for the benefit of the claim—Three (3) months.

24. Any miner suffering from sickness, or being compelled to be absent from sickness in his family—Protection for the period of the continuance thereof.

25. Any miner engaged as a party to or a witness in any case, as an assessor or juryman in any Court of Justice—During the sitting of the Court in the case in which he is engaged and with reasonable time for travelling to and fro.

Protection of stacked quartz.

20. Any miner wishing to retain possession of quartz or other auriferous substances may have the same protected for a period not exceeding six (6) months, provided that such substance is properly stacked on ground not supposed to be adapted to mining purposes, and that a board with the owner’s name, address, and date of stacking, legibly written or painted thereon, be posted on or close to such stack.

Protection void if false representations made.

21. Any protection obtained by false representation shall be void.

Notice of protection to be posted on claim.

22. All protected claims or interests must be marked by a notice with “protected” and the owner’s name.