1656
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 66

The subsidy under Class I. and Class II. may be discontinued, if the Council or Road Board think necessary, on one month’s notice of discontinuance being given to the party or parties. Payments will be made monthly.

Applications (giving the full names and residences of each man of the proposed party or parties, and specifying the locality in which it is proposed to prospect) must be sent to the Council chambers or Road Board offices, and the application must be indorsed on the envelope, “Application for Prospecting, Class I.” (or “Class II.,” as the case may be).

PART XVII.—REGULATIONS AS TO REWARDS FOR THE DISCOVERY OF NEW GOLDFIELDS.

154. Upon the Council of any county, or, where the Counties Act is not in force, upon any Road Board, adopting the following regulations, the Government shall subsidize by pound for pound the amounts paid by way of reward under the same:—

(a.) For the discovery of a new goldfield, three miles from any workings, there shall be paid, at the expiration of six months from date of discovery, a reward of £100 per hundred miners, up to £500 for five hundred or more miners so employed.

(b.) For the recovery of a lead in proximity to the place where a lead has been lost, and has not been worked for a period of six months, a reward equal to one-half of the above rates;

And for the discovery of a new lead one mile from any lost lead a reward equal to two-thirds of the above rates.

(c.) “Workings” shall be construed to mean an area of ground upon which alluvial or quartz mining operations are being carried on.

(d.) Distance shall be computed from any given point, measured in a direct line, from where gold-mining is being carried on to the site of the discovery.

(e.) Every application made by a County Council or Road Board within a mining district or gold-mining district shall be accompanied by a certificate from the Warden of the district in which the discovery has been made; or, if the discovery be outside any mining district or gold-mining district, then the certificate shall be signed by the Chairman of the Land Board of the land district in which the discovery has been made. Such certificate shall state the amounts paid by the local body, and that such payment has been made in accordance with these regulations.

(f.) In the event of any person discovering a payable goldfield beyond the jurisdiction of any County Council or Road Board, the Government shall recognize the application, and deal therewith in the same manner as if it had been made by a County Council or Road Board.

(g.) For the discovery of a payable diamond-field, lode of silver, or lode of tin, for every one hundred miners profitably employed thereon at the expiration of six months from date of discovery there shall be paid a reward of £100, up to £500 for five hundred or more miners so employed.

PART XVIII.—PUDDLING-MACHINES.

155. Main Sludge-channel to be first constructed.—No person shall be permitted to erect a puddling-machine in any locality wherein puddling operations have not heretofore been carried on until a main sludge-channel shall have first been constructed. (Schedule 25.)

156. Main Sludge-channels to be approved by the Warden.—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 whenever 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 variation was made.

157. Expense of Construction.—The expense of the construction of any such channel shall be borne by the persons then or afterwards using the same in proportion to the position of each machine relatively to the said channel, and payment of such proportion to the persons 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 permitted by the Warden to do so on the same terms as provided for the use of tail-races.

158. Sludge Drains and Channels to be kept clear.—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 overflow the banks or edges thereof.

PART XIX.—TUNNELLING.

159. Mode of taking up a Tunnel.—It shall not be necessary to mark out or indicate 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 regulations. (Schedule 28.)

160. Wail to be left.—No person shall drive any tunnel within 10ft. 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.

161. Ventilation.—When cross-drives or openings are required for ventilation, and the various parties concerned cannot 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 distribution of any auriferous deposits which may be found in the intervening wall.

PART XX.—BLASTING.

162. Notice to be given.—Any person shall, before firing a heavy blast of gunpowder or other