1664
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 66

Board of Examiners, Mines Department, Wellington, accompanied with a fee of £1 sterling, together with a certificate that the applicant is not less than twenty-one years of age, and that he has been employed for a period of not less than three years in under-ground workings connected with mining.

The subjects for examination shall be as follows:—
(1.) The laying-out and construction of shafts, chambers, main drives or levels, uprises, and stopes.
(2.) The various methods adopted in timbering shafts and mines, and in filling up old workings.
(3.) The drainage of mines and pumping-appliances.
(4.) The haulage in shafts and on underground planes; also on the strength of hauling-ropes and chains.
(5.) On the ventilation of mines.
(6.) Tapping water in mines, and the mode of constructing dams in underground workings to keep the water back.
(7.) On blasting and the use of explosives.
(8.) The effect that faults, slides, and mullock-bars have on lodes, and how to ascertain the direction of slides and heaves.
(9.) A knowledge of underground surveying, and of making plans of the underground workings, showing the dip or inclination and strike of the reefs or lodes.
(10.) A knowledge of the different rocks where gold, silver, tin, copper, zinc, lead, and antimony are found, and on the formation of lodes and leads.
(11.) A knowledge of arithmetic and the method of keeping accounts.
(12.) A knowledge of Part III. of “The Mining Act, 1886.”

Every applicant must be able to make sketch-drawings to illustrate details connected with any work to be done in or about a mine.

256. Every person who has been engaged in the capacity of an underground manager in a quartz or alluvial mine where not less than twelve men were employed for a period of twelve months immediately previous to the passing of “The Mining Act, 1886,” may make an application in writing to the Minister of Mines, in the form set forth in Schedule 45 annexed hereto, for a certificate of competency under the said Act in such capacity, and with such application shall transmit a fee of 10s., and also forward therewith a certificate as to his character and attainments; and thereupon the Minister, if satisfied as to his character and attainments, may issue to him a certificate of competency of underground manager in the form set forth in Schedule 46 hereto annexed.

257. Every Inspector of Mines shall, on the issue to the owner or manager of a mine of a certificate of exemption from the operation of section 203 of “The Mining Act, 1886,” forward a duplicate of such certificate to the Minister, which shall be in the form set forth in Schedule 47 annexed hereto, and the Minister shall cause the same to be recorded in a book kept for that purpose.

SCHEDULES.

SCHEDULE 1 (Reg. No. 4).
APPLICATION FOR LICENSED HOLDING OR SPECIAL CLAIM
To the Warden at
hereby apply for a [licensed holding or special claim] for gold-mining purposes under the provisions of “The Mining Act, 1886,” of the lands hereinafter described.
[Signature of applicant.]

Dated at , the day of , 18 .
The above application and any objections will be heard at the Warden’s Office at , on , 18 .
Any person desiring to object to [the issue of a license for the land or to the grant of the special claim applied for] must, within clear days from the date of such application, enter his objections at the Warden’s Office at .
[Signature of Warden or Clerk.]

SCHEDULE 2 (Reg. 12).
SURVEYOR’S NOTICE OF MARKING-OUT OF LICENSED HOLDING OR SPECIAL CLAIM.
To all persons whom it may concern.
I hereby give notice that , residing at , did, on the day of , apply to the Warden at for [a licensed holding or special claim] for gold-mining purposes of acres [or yards] of land, which I have this day marked out, and that any person desiring to object [to the issue of such license or to the granting of such special claim] must, on or before the day of , 18 , enter his objection at the office of the said Warden. And I further give notice that the said land is exempted from occupation for any purpose whatsoever until the application of the aforesaid has been finally dealt with.
Dated at , the day of , 18 .
[Signature of Surveyor.]

SCHEDULE 3 (Reg. 24, sub-sec. e).
DECLARATION AS TO LABOUR AND CAPITAL EMPLOYED.
To the Warden at
In the matter of [the license or special claim grant] for the occupation of lands situated at , being [license or special claim grant No. ], and of the employment of labour and capital thereon, I [Name in full, occupation, and address], being one of the [licensees or special claim grantees] in the above-mentioned [license or special claim grant], do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare,—

1. That the average number of men employed on the ground held under [license or special claim grant] and in connection therewith, from the day of to the day of , has been .
2. That the amount of capital expended to date in and upon and in connection with the said ground is £ .
   Signature:
   Declared before me at , 18 .
   the day of
   Warden [or J.P.].

SCHEDULE 4 (Reg. 22).
APPLICATION FOR CANCELLATION OF LICENSE OR GRANT FOR SPECIAL CLAIM.
To the Warden at .
I [or We] hereby make application for the cancellation of [the license or special claim grant] for gold-mining purposes No. , originally granted to , and now occupied by , upon the following grounds:—
[Here state grounds specifically.]
Dated at , the day of , 18 .
[Signature.]
No. and date of Miner’s Right.