1879.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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the colliery, are to communicate such damage or
deficiency to the underground manager or oversman,
or other person in charge, so that the same may be
forthwith repaired or rectified.

21. In like manner every collier, drawer, and
    other workman engaged in the colliery, who shall
    observe or come to know of any defect or flaw in the
    working machinery and gearing used in and about
    the colliery, whereby the efficiency thereof may be
    impaired, is to communicate the same as above.

22. No workman shall, on any pretence whatever,
    be allowed to introduce into the colliery any stranger
    without the sanction of the mine manager or head
    viewer.

23. Colliers, drawers, and all others in the colliery
    who shall have occasion to pass through any trap-
    door shall thereupon closely shut the same, and shall
    on no account leave it open. On discontinuing work
    at the end of a shift, and especially when no work is
    to be done in the colliery on the following day, care
    must be taken by every workman closely to shut all
    trap-doors, and thereby allow of the proper current
    of air necessary for ventilation being constantly cir-
    culated, reporting at all times to the oversman should
    they observe at any time stoppings injured, brattice
    knocked down or broken, or any other thing where-
    by the ventilation of the mine may be deranged or
    obstructed, so that it may, with as little delay as
    possible, be remedied.

24. No hewer to commence working in any place
    until it has been inspected by the oversman or deputy,
    or some other authorized person.

25. No workman to commence or continue to work
    in any place where he may consider the timber in-
    sufficient to support the roof of the mine, or any
    other cause that may render the place unsafe, until
    it is put right by the deputy or other person in
    charge.

26. All workmen are especially forbidden to throw
    into, deposit, or leave coal, wood, stone, rubbish, or
    materials of any kind in any air-course or road, so as
    to interfere with or hinder the air passing into and
    through the colliery.

27. All workmen are prohibited from entering or
    remaining in any place throughout the whole colliery
    where not absolutely required by duty to be at the
    time.

28. Colliers and all others are prohibited from
    defacing or removing marks which may be made in
    any part of the workings for the guidance of the
    workmen in their operations. All workers are for-
    bidden to displace, injure, or damage in any way the
    coal-stoops, props, hutches, rails, or any part of the
    machinery, gearing, or apparatus.

29. No shots to be fired by any workman until
    his place has previously been examined by the
    oversman or other officer in authority, and authority
    obtained to do so.

30. Meetings of colliers and other workmen in a
    body within the workings, or in any of the roads or
    air-courses of the colliery, are strictly prohibited.

31. No workman shall be permitted to enter or to
    continue in or about the colliery or works while in a
    state of intoxication. No intoxicating liquor on any
    pretence whatever to be taken on to the works.
    If any workman lose a shift through intoxication, he
    shall be subject, at the option of the Manager, to
    dismissal from the works, or to be taken before a
    Magistrate to be punished as provided by Part VI.
    of "The Regulation of Mines Act, 1874."

32. Colliers, drawers, putters, or other person or
    persons employed about or in the colliery are strictly
    forbidden to take or carry away from the colliery any
    coal, lumps, or otherwise. Any persons so doing
    subject themselves to immediate discharge from the
    works.

33. Any person who shall pull down, injure, or
    deface the rules hung up at any of the Company's
    collieries is liable to the penalties set down in
    rules 31 and 32.

34. A copy of these rules will be delivered to every
    worker, which he must attentively peruse, preserve,
    and return when ceasing to be employed at the
    colliery.

LASTLY.

35. The officers whose duties are above enumerated
    shall, at all times, report to the proper authorities
    any individual case of neglect or wilful disobedience
    to these rules, in order that the safe and proper
    working of the colliery may be duly maintained.

36. The violation of any of the foregoing special
    rules subjects the offender to dismissal from the
    works, or to be taken before a Magistrate to be
    punished as provided by Part VI. of "The Regula-
    tion of Mines Act, 1874."

ADDITIONAL SPECIAL RULES

To be set in force should inflammable gas or fire-damp
be known to exist or to have existed in any of the
workings or parts.

A. In every part of the said colliery, where neces-
sary, stations will be fixed upon by the viewer or
manager, where each workman's safety-lamp will be
examined or securely locked.

B. From these stations no workman is to take a
safety-lamp without its having been examined and
securely locked by the oversman, inspector, deputy,
or manager, whichever may be on duty at the time.

C. The oversman and inspector to have full power
to direct the workmen how to use their safety-lamps
during the time of working, and it is particularly
enjoined that every workman strictly attend to such
directions. No lamp to be used on which there is
not a proper shield. None but the oversman, or
similar officer in authority, to be allowed to carry a
lamp-key.

D. Should any workman using a safety-lamp detect,
by the usual indications, the appearance or presence
of fire-damp, he is first to pull down the wick with
the pricker and then to retreat to the lamp-station,
and give information to the nearest responsible
person, it being strictly forbidden for any workman
to continue to work in a place where such indications
have been observed by him; and should the flame
continue in the interior of the lamp after the wick
has been drawn down, the lamp is then to be
cautiously removed, and no attempt whatever to ex-
tinguish the flame by any other means is to be made
by any of the workmen.

E. Every hewer, putter, or other person whatever
in charge of a safety-lamp, in any case losing his
light, is himself to take the lamp to the lamp station
to be re-lighted, examined, and locked by the overs-
man, or some responsible person, before being again
used.

F. Any person witnessing improper treatment of
the safety-lamps by any one shall give immediate
information to the viewer or oversman in charge of
the pit or mine, so that a recurrence of such conduct
may be prevented, by the offending party being
brought to justice.

G. In places where safety-lamps are used, no
person shall use or have a naked light, or have in his
possession any apparatus either for smoking tobacco
or striking a light.

H. No putter, driver, drawer, or helper-up, or
other person, to carry a lamp during his work, except
he has leave to do so from the viewer or manager.

I. Every person using a safety-lamp is to take it
home at the end of each shift, for the purpose of
having it properly cleaned before using it again.