1780
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[DEC. 31
and maintained for the purpose. He shall also ex-
amine the lamps, and shall immediately withdraw
any that he may find unsafe.
33. The underviewer or other person appointed
shall make a daily record of the readings of the
barometer and thermometer, and use additional care
with the ventilating apparatus and examination of
the works during any unusual indication.
34. The deputy shall not allow workmen to pass
a station-board until the workings beyond it have
been properly examined, and he shall see that proper
caution-boards are put up when necessary.
35. No person shall try for fire-damp with a naked
light, or brush out or baffle gas. 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 or striking a light.
36. Where safety-lamps are used they shall be used
with the greatest care. Every person must examine
his lamp to see that it is clean and securely locked on
taking it from the lampkeeper.
37. No one shall place a safety-lamp on the floor,
except when holing, and in all cases at least two feet
from the swing of the pick.
38. No one shall have in the mine any unlocked
safety-lamp in his possession, or a key or any con-
trivance for opening the same, except properly-
authorized persons.
39. No person shall work with his safety-lamp full
of fire, or unlock or unscrew the same, or blow out
the flame, or light tobacco or other substances at the
gauze, or damage or improperly use the lamp.
40. When a person is using a safety-lamp, his put-
ter or trammer must not bring a naked light into the
place where a safety-lamp is used.
41. Whenever a lamp is rendered unsafe by oil
being spilt on the gauze, or by any other injury, the
person having such lamp shall put out the flame by
drawing down the wick with a pricker, and deliver
the lamp to the lampkeeper.

Furnacemen, Lampkeepers.

42. The ventilating furnace or apparatus shall not
    be left either day or night without the orders of the
    manager. In changing shifts a furnaceman shall not
    leave his furnace before the arrival of the furnaceman
    on the next shift. In case of sickness or lawful
    absence, a furnaceman must give early and sufficient
    notice to the manager, so that a substitute may be
    provided.

43. The lampkeeper must not deliver out a safety-
    lamp to be used that has less than twenty-eight
    parallel wires in an inch of the gauze, or which is
    not furnished with a proper lock and wire-pricker.
    He must see that each safety-lamp, when given out
    for use, is in good working order, clean, well trimmed,
    securely locked, and that each Davy lamp is pro-
    tected by a shield; and must not allow any greasy
    waste to accumulate in the lamp-cabin, and must
    inform the underviewer whenever he finds that a
    safety-lamp has been wilfully or negligently damaged,
    or carelessly used.

The following special rules shall be in force at
every mine where men are raised and lowered in any
shaft:-

Manager.

44. The manager must see that the signals for
    moving the cages are painted upon a board and
    placed in a conspicuous position.

Underground Workmen and Boys.

45. During the time of the mine-drawing, every
    person in descending the shaft shall be under the
    directions of the banksman, and in ascending the
    shaft shall be under the direction of the onsetter,
    and no other persons than the banksman and on-
    setter shall give any signal during such time. No
    person shall get on or off the cage after the signal
    to go on has been given, nor until it has settled on
    the props or reached the bottom. No person shall
    take with him down or up the shaft tools, rails, props,
    sprags, or other bulky materials, except for repairing
    the shafts. No person shall get on the cage after
    the number stated on the board at the pit-top and
    bottom are on. Every workman and boy shall leave
    the cage immediately when ordered to do so by the
    banksman or onsetter.

Banksman and Onsetter.

46. The head banksman, subject to the manager's
    or underviewer's directions, shall have full control
    over the pit-top and over all persons employed under
    him. The onsetter, subject to the manager's or
    underviewer's directions, shall have full control over
    the pit-bottom and all persons employed there. No
    person under the age of eighteen years shall have
    charge of the pit top or bottom.

47. The head banksman or other appointed per-
    son shall be at the mine at the appointed time in
    the morning, and shall provide a sufficient number of
    lights on the bank; and before the engine is started,
    and from time to time during the day, he shall see
    that the pulleys, ropes, cages, chains, and landing
    doors or frames are in safe working condition; and
    he shall not allow any person to descend the shaft
    until he has put the loaded tubs into the cage, and
    the ropes and loaded cages have been run up and
    down the shaft, and the ropes, chains, cappings, and
    cages carefully examined by him. If any weakness
    or defect is found in anything belonging to the pit-
    top, or in the engine or machinery, he must not per-
    mit any person to descend or ascend until it is made
    secure. The banksman shall also attend to the
    proper signals. The head banksman shall not allow
    any boy under thirteen to work on the bank except-
    ing under the exemptions provided by the Act, and
    in that case only with an order from the manager.

48. The banksman in charge of the pit-top shall
    not let a stranger go down the shaft without the
    authority of the manager. The banksman, when he
    is informed of danger in the shaft, shall not allow
    any person to go down unless for the purpose of
    repairing the shaft. He shall not allow any in-
    toxicated person to descend. He shall himself give
    the signals, and let no other than appointed persons
    land the corves or put them into the cages. He
    shall listen at the pit-top when any person is in the
    shaft, and instantly signal the engineman to stop the
    engine in case of alarm. He shall remain at the pit-
    top until all the men and boys are drawn out.

49. The banksman or onsetter shall not let a boy
    under sixteen years of age go down or up the shaft
    unless accompanied by a man, and shall not permit
    more than the number of persons stated on the
    board at the pit top and bottom to descend or ascend
    at one time. The banksman and onsetter shall not
    allow a person to go down or up against a loaded
    cage in the same shaft unless it is bratticed, and
    shall not allow any person to take with him rails,
    props, sprags, tools, tubs, or other bulky materials,
    or to get on or off the cage until it has settled upon
    the props or reached the pit-bottom. The banksman
    shall send all tools down the shaft in a tub or tram,
    and props, rails, brattice-boards, and other bulky
    materials shall be tied securely to the cage or rope
    by the banksman or onsetter when being sent down
    or up the shaft. If a rope is working in the shaft
    for underground planes, no person shall ride in
    the cage whilst this is running unless the rope be
    cased.

50. The head banksman shall see that the fencing
    is placed securely round the top of every shaft when
    it is not at work.