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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Notices to be Posted by the Warden.
34. Notices of all prospecting claims granted, with
full particulars of locality, yield of gold, and descrip-
tion of workings, shall be posted by the Warden on
the outside of his office for public information.

Where Prospecting Claims to be Obtained.
35. It shall not be lawful for the Warden to grant
a prospecting claim for any new discovery at a less
distance than two miles from any previously existing
workings in alluvial ground, nor to grant a prospect-
ing claim for any new discovery of a quartz reef at a
less distance than half a mile from any previously
existing quartz workings.

Occupation of Prospecting Claim.
36. Every prospecting claim shall, after being
marked, be held by one man remaining on the ground
during working hours until the application is dealt
with, and, if granted, the claim must, unless by special
permission of the Warden, be fully occupied within
seven days from the date of grant.

Assisted Prospecting.
37. The Warden may, if he think fit, grant a pros-
pecting claim to the actual discoverers of new gold
workings conjointly with persons who have assisted
them in prospecting either with contributions or
otherwise, or with other persons who may be nomi-
nated by the actual discoverers, although the said
persons may not have been on the ground prior to
the granting thereof.

Prospecting Area.
38. The Warden may, upon the application of any
persons forming a party of not less than four, grant
protection for not more than three months for a
"prospecting area" at a distance of not less than
two miles from any existing workings in alluvial
ground, or in the case of quartz workings at a dis-
tance of not less than half a mile from any existing
quartz workings: Provided that in no case shall any
such prospecting area be granted within a radius of
half a mile of any other such prospecting area:
Provided further that such protection shall only
continue in force until gold is struck, in which case
the discovery shall be reported, or until the holders
are required by the Warden to mark a prospecting
claim, in either of which cases a prospecting claim
shall be marked and applied for as provided in Regu-
lation II. and V., and protection shall thereupon
cease as to the remainder of such prospecting area.

Protection for Prospecting Areas may be Renewed.
39. It shall be lawful for the Warden to renew
from time to time the protection for a prospecting
area: Provided that such renewed protection shall
not be granted for more than three months at any
one time.

Prospecting Areas to be Continuously Worked.
40. Every prospecting area shall be continuously
worked by at least two men during the entire period
of occupancy.

VIII.-SPECIAL SITES.
Special Sites may be Granted.
41. It shall be lawful for the Warden, on applica-
tion, to grant to holders of Miners' Rights or Gold
Mining Leases special sites not exceeding five acres
in extent, for the erection of machinery, or for stack-
ing or depositing auriferous earth or quartz tailings,
headings, or other substances, or as washing sites or
for other special purposes, and such special sites shall
be marked out as ordinary claims.

Restriction of Site.
42. Special sites shall not, except under extra-
ordinary circumstances, be granted for any land
which is known to be auriferous unless the same has
been worked out and abandoned, nor for land which
is in the line or direction of any workings, or which
is or may probably be required for business pur-
poses.

IX.-PUDDLING MACHINES.
Main Sludge Channel to be First Constructed.
43. No person shall be permitted to erect a pud-
dling machine in any locality wherein puddling
operations have not heretofore been carried on until
a main sludge channel shall have first been con-
structed.

Main Sludge Channels to be Approved by the
Warden.
44. The position and course of all main sludge
channels and the width and depth thereof shall be
subject to the approval of the Warden, who shall
have power to remove, alter, and vary the same when-
ever it shall seem to him necessary so to do. And
when any such channel shall be ordered by the
Warden to be removed, altered, or varied at the
instance of any person, the expense of such removal,
alteration, or variation shall be borne by the person
at whose instance such removal, alteration, or varia-
tion was made.

Expense of Construction.
45. The expense of the construction of any such
channel shall be borne by the persons then or after-
wards using the same in proportion to the position of
each machine relatively to the said channel, and pay-
ment of such proportion to the person constructing
the same shall be made prior to the granting of any
certificate of registration.
Any person desiring to discharge sludge into any
main sludge channel already constructed may be per-
mitted by the Warden to do so on the same terms as
provided for the use of tail-races.

Sludge Drains and Channels to be kept Clear.
46. Main sludge channels shall be kept clear and
in good repair by the joint labour of the machine-
owners in each locality, and the owner of each
machine shall further keep clear and in good order
the private sludge drain connected with such machine,
and on no pretence whatever shall the sludge of any
main channel or private drain be permitted to over-
flow the banks or edges thereof.

X.-TUNNELLING.
Mode of taking up a Tunnel.
47. It shall not be necessary to mark out or indi-
cate the course of any tunnel otherwise than by
posting at the proposed mouth of the tunnel a notice
of application in the form prescribed by these Regu-
lations. Schedule E.

Wall to be left.
48. No person shall drive any tunnel within ten
feet of any tunnel the property of any other person
except by the consent in writing of such other person
or the authority of the Warden.

Ventilation.
49. When cross-drives or openings are required
for ventilation, and the various parties concerned can-
not agree thereon, the Warden may issue an order for
making such drives or openings, and for the allocation
of the work to be performed, and also for the distri-
bution of any auriferous deposits which may be found
in the intervening wall.