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253. Kauri Timber to be paid for.—Any person requiring kauri timber must apply to the Warden, who may give permission to cut the same on payment to the Receiver of Revenue of the sum of £1 5s. sterling for each tree required.

PART XXX.—INSPECTION OF MACHINERY.

254. The Inspector shall from time to time, or when he may deem it necessary, inspect any mine or mining-machinery; and may issue orders for the safe working of such mine or machinery as he may deem advisable, and the owner of such mine or machinery shall see that such orders are strictly complied with.

PART XXXI.—GRANTING CERTIFICATES OF UNDERGROUND MANAGERS.

UNDERGROUND MANAGER.

255. The Governor shall appoint a Board of Examiners, consisting of not less than three nor more than five persons, three to form a quorum, to examine, or cause to be examined applicants for certificates of competency as underground managers on the subjects hereinafter specified.

The said Board may appoint supervisors from time to time to conduct such examinations, and shall grant certificates in the form set forth in Schedule 44 hereto annexed to such persons as shall have passed the prescribed examination, and shall have produced certificates of character which shall be satisfactory to the Board.

Every application for a certificate of an underground manager shall be made in writing under the hand of the applicant to the Secretary of the 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.