638
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 81

the nature, extent, and result of operations during
the previous month.

All measurement of work done under Class II.
shall be made by the County Engineer, Road
Overseer of the district, or other person appointed
by the local body, who will be required to certify
to the voucher for payment.

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 dis-
continuance being given to the party or parties.

Payments will be made monthly.

Applications (giving the full names and resi-
dences 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 applica-
tion must be indorsed on the envelope, “Applica-
tion for Prospecting, Class I.” (or “Class II.,”
as the case may be).

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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 dis-
trict 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 there-
with 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 dis-
covery there shall be paid a reward of £100, up
to £500 for five hundred or more miners so
employed.

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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 opera-
     tions have not heretofore been carried on until
     a main sludge-channel shall have first been con-
     structed. (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 re-
     moval, 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.