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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
properly set, and be removed and renewed as often
as is necessary.
18. No collier shall use or allow to be used any
gunpowder, except in conformity with the general
rules for its use.
19. In addition to the examination by the under-
viewer, or other officer, each work-person must ex-
amine his working-place before commencing work,
and from time to time during his shift, and withdraw
his men in case of danger.
20. Any person discovering any stoppage or de-
rangement of the ventilation, injury to air-crossings,
doors, stoppings, brattices, or air-pipes, or observing
any obstruction in an air-course, a weakness in the
roof, or deficiency of timber, weight on the stalls, or
accumulation of gas or water, shall immediately give
notice to the men and boys in that part of the mine,
and to the underviewer or his deputy.
21 Any person passing through a door must in-
stantly close it; and no person shall injure a door or
leave it open, break down or interfere with a stop-
ping or a brattice, obstruct or damage an air-course,
air-crossing, or air-pipe, or remove a caution-board
or danger-signal, or do anything to interfere with the
proper working of the mine, without an order from
the underviewer or his deputy.
22. No person shall leave any light or any gun-
powder in any part of the mine when leaving his
work.
23. Shots must be rammed with soft material not
likely to strike fire.
24. No person shall fire shots without authority
from the underviewer.
25. When a shot has missed fire it shall not be
unrammed, but shall be reported to the underviewer
or his deputy, and the place shall not be approached
without the permission of the underviewer or his
deputy.
26. The furnaceman shall constantly keep clean
brisk fires; ashes shall not be allowed to accumulate
upon or under the bars, but when cold they must be
removed.

The following special rules shall be in force in
any mine in which explosive gas has been found :—
27. The manager shall appoint a competent person
or persons, who shall examine every safety-lamp,
immediately before it is taken into the workings for
use, and ascertain it to be secure and securely locked;
and, in any part of a mine in which the safety-lamps
are so required to be used, they shall not be used
until they have been so examined and found secure,
and securely locked, and shall not without due
authority be unlocked; and in the said part of the
mine a person shall not, unless he is appointed for
the purpose, have in his possession any key or con-
trivance for opening the lock of any such safety-
lamp, or any lucifer match or apparatus of any kind
for striking a light. He shall not allow any unlocked
lamp to be in any part of the mine excepting in a
lamp-cabin, or other station properly appointed for
lighting lamps. He must also see that no safety-
lamp gauze is used with less than twenty-eight
parallel wires to the inch, or less than 784 apertures
to the square inch, and that a sufficient number of
safety-lamps are provided with shields, and locks and
rings in the end of the gauze.
28. The manager shall appoint a station or stations
at the entrance of the mine, or at different parts of
the mine, as the case may require; and no person
shall pass beyond any such station until the mine, or
part of the mine beyond the same, has been duly in-
spected and stated to be safe.
29. No person shall pass the appointed station or
enter his working-place in a morning until it has
been examined by the underviewer or his deputy,
and duly indicated to be safe; and no person shall
go into any other part of the mine than where he
works, except by the order of the underviewer or his
deputy, or under the circumstances mentioned in the
next rule.
30. The underviewer or his deputy shall, with a
safety-lamp, once in every twenty-four hours if one
shift is employed, and once in every twelve hours if
two shifts are employed during any twenty-four
hours, examine every travelling road and working-
place before the workmen and boys descend,
and shall leave a mark or signal at each working-
place showing the date of his examination; and
if he find the roads and works well ventilated,
and in other respects safe, he shall give the
signal to the banksman for the men and boys to
descend; but if danger from gas or from any other
cause be apprehended in any place, he shall im-
mediately fix a danger-signal in all the entrances to
such place. He must pay particular attention to the
edges of the goaves and the gate end lips. He shall
make a true report of the condition thereof, which
shall be recorded without delay in a book to be kept at
the mine for the purpose, and he shall sign the same.
31. If at any time it is found by the underviewer,
or any person for the time being in charge of the
mine or any part thereof, that, by reason of noxious
gases prevailing in such mine or such part thereof,
or of any cause whatever, the mine or the said part
is dangerous, every workman shall be withdrawn
from the mine, or such part thereof as is so found
dangerous; and a competent person, who shall be
appointed for the purpose, shall inspect the mine or
such part thereof as is so found dangerous; and, if
the danger arises from inflammable gas, shall inspect
the same with a locked safety-lamp, and in every case
shall make a true report of the condition of such
mine or part thereof; and a workman shall not,
except in so far as is necessary for inquiring into the
case of danger, or for the removal thereof, or for
exploration, be readmitted into the mine, or such
part thereof as was so found dangerous, until the
same is stated by such report not to be dangerous.
Every such report shall be recorded in a book,
which shall be kept at the mine for the purpose,
and shall be signed by the person making the same.
32. The underviewer, under the direction of the
manager, shall see that locked safety-lamps are used,
and naked lights excluded wheresoever and whenso-
ever danger from fire-damp is apprehended, and shall
see that proper caution boards or signals are placed
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.