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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Drawers shall carefully convey their loaded hutches
to the pit-bottom or mine-mouth, and shall deliver the
same at the place of delivery pointed out to them for
the reception thereof, and shall place them securely
under the supervision of those appointed to take
charge.

OFFICERS' DUTIES.

OVERSMEN.

8. The oversman to give all necessary instructions
   to the men and boys in the pit or mine respecting
   their work, and to see daily that due respect is
   paid to the rules and regulations in force upon
   the colliery. To visit every working-place at least
   once a day, commencing at the starting of the pit or
   mine. To examine daily all the various air-currents
   of the colliery, also all stoppings and air-brattices
   connected with the same; and, should any deficiency
   in the main or any of the separate air-currents at any
   time be observed, notice of such deficiency to be im-
   mediately given to the resident viewer and mine
   manager; the occurrence of any sudden discharge,
   accumulation, or indication of inflammable gas in any
   part of the workings, also to be immediately reported
   to him; such workings to cease working until the
   said gas is removed. The oversman, in the mean-
   time, to the best of his judgment, to adopt such
   measures as will effect the same.

9. To carefully examine, each day, with the
   safety-lamp, the edge of all goaves in the broken
   workings, and to see that due attention is paid to the
   lamps by the men whilst at work, giving them at all
   times suitable directions respecting them, according
   to the situation in which they are placed.

10. To see that a sufficient quantity of timber of
    all requisite sizes is daily supplied to the workings,
    such being the earnest wish of the Company, so that
    every possible protection may be afforded to the
    lives of their workmen; it being at the same time
    particularly desired that proper care of all material
    should be taken, and none whatever, on any occasion,
    wilfully wasted.

11. To see that all tramways and rolley-ways are
    kept in a safe and workable state throughout the
    colliery.

12. The Davy safety lamp to be used whilst exam-
    ining all workings, also any old or suspended work-
    ings.

13. The roadsman, at the close of the colliers' shift,
    shall daily make careful inspection of the whole draw-
    ing roads, headings, and air-courses from the mine-
    mouth and throughout the colliery; shall keep the
    same free of all obstructions, and of the fixed height
    and width necessary for proper passage and ventila-
    tion; he shall repair and remedy all damages and
    defects in the roads; and shall examine, put, and keep
    in proper condition all trap-doors, and shall see and
    enforce that the same be kept close; and, wherever
    practicable, shall make and keep all trap-doors self-
    acting; and do such serviceable work suitable for the
    interests and advancement of the colliery, reporting
    daily to the mine manager at the termination of each
    shift.

14. The roadsman shall inspect and report daily to
    the mine manager any instance of neglect on the part
    of the colliers in not carrying on their coal faces or
    walls in accordance with the plan pursued in working
    the colliery, or in not propping up and securing the
    roof of the superincumbent strata in those parts of
    the workings under their care. The roadsman or
    oversman and his delegate shall also examine and
    report to the mine manager or viewer instances of
    neglect and acts of carelessness on the part of the
    brushers and colliers in failing to remove, or in not
    removing with proper caution, the strata necessary to
    be removed from roads, or in not carrying forward
    the brushing with sufficient regularity and of superior
    dimensions, or of leaving the brushing with loose or
    hanging stones in and about the strata brushed.

15. As removing falls from the roofs of drawing
    roadways and air-courses, repairing defects, and sup-
    porting loose strata are within the oversman's, roads-
    man's, or their deputies' duties, and as they are
    charged with the maintenance of all drawing
    roads and passages in the colliery, they are to
    proceed with the greatest caution, both for their
    own safety and the successful execution of their
    duties; they must, therefore, be careful, and are
    required to prevent all other workmen coming
    near any defective places, or interfering with them,
    when at work; they are required to undertake no
    repairs of unusual magnitude or danger without suf-
    ficient assistance, and until provided with every
    necessary material, which will be supplied to them by
    the Company, on application to the mine manager or
    head viewer; while progress of their work must be
    reported, at the termination of every shift, to the
    head oversman, and by him to the mine manager or
    head viewer.

16. The head oversman to examine the workings,
    roadways, and air-courses thoroughly and minutely
    every morning and evening, previous to allowing men
    to enter, satisfying himself as to their safety; like-
    wise to examine the state of the barometer, it being
    provided for the purpose of showing when the pres-
    sure of inflammable gas may, more or less, be expected,
    particularly at the edge of the goaves in the broken
    workings; giving in report of same work before
    leaving the workings at night, he being the last man
    to leave the pit or mine. To see the head viewer and
    manager every night after the pit or mine has ceased
    work, and to report to him the state of the workings of
    the colliery, and to receive directions respecting the
    same, and to see that a record of the barometer and
    thermometer readings for the day has been correctly
    recorded in the mine daily register, kept in the
    Company's office on the works, in charge of the head
    viewer and mine manager.

BACK OVERSMAN.

17. The back oversman to have full charge of the
    pit or mine in the absence of the fore or head overs-
    man, exercising in everything the same authority and
    attention as the fore or head oversman whilst in the
    pit or mine.

18. To report to the fore or head oversman every
    night the state of the pit or mine, and what may have
    transpired during the day, whether of a usual or
    unusual nature. Not to leave the workings at night
    till all the oncost shift men, lads, and tonnage men
    have ridden, and to examine the main air-currents
    and the barometer last thing every night before
    leaving the pit or mine.

FIREMAN.

19. The fireman, when such is employed, shall
    exercise the duties laid down in Rule 16, with the
    exception that he will, before allowing the men to
    enter, report to the head oversman or back overs-
    man (whichever may be in charge, at a place on the
    bank or entrance to the pit or mine), as to the safety
    of the workings. He shall be the first man to enter
    and the last man to leave the mine, at the termina-
    tion of each shift, reporting at night in the same
    way as in the morning.

MISCELLANEOUS.

20. As a matter of common safety, colliers,
    drawers, and all other workmen in the colliery who
    shall observe or who shall come to know of any
    damage to, or deficiency in any road, roof, or air-
    course, or permanent or temporary brattice, or
    other appliances, or work devised for making, main-
    taining, and promoting the effective ventilation of