✨ Mining Regulations
Numb. 97. 1443
SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1891.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1891.
*Regulations under "The Mining Act, 1891."
ONSLOW, Governor.
WHEREAS by "The Mining Act, 1891" (hereinafter termed "the said Act"), it
is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor,
subject to the provisions of the said Act, from
time to time to make, alter, amend, and revoke
rules and regulations for all or any of the pur-
poses hereinafter enumerated in section 341 of the
said Act and otherwise :
Now, therefore, I, William Hillier, Earl of
Onslow, the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
and authorities in that behalf conferred by the
said Act, do hereby make the following rules and
regulations for all existing mining districts, and
for such mining districts as may be hereafter con-
stituted under the said Act; such regulations to
take effect on and after the first day of January,
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two; and
I do hereby declare that, on and from such last-
named date, all regulations under "The Mining
Act, 1886," or any Act amending the same, shall
be, and the same, are hereby revoked.
GOLD-MINING.
PRELIMINARY.
Interpretation Clause.—In the construction
and for the purposes of these regulations, the
following terms shall, if not inconsistent with the
context or subject-matter, have the respective
meanings hereby assigned to them: that is to say,
—The words "Mining Registrar" or "Regis-
trar" shall include the person charged with the
care or custody of the registration books in the
Warden's office. "Working-hours" shall mean
between 8 a.m. and 12 noon, and between 1 p.m.
and 5 p.m., on any working-day except Saturday,
when working-hours shall be between 8 a.m. and
12 noon only. The words "ordinary claim"
shall mean any mining claim in alluvial ground,
except river, dredging, wet, double area, ex-
tended, prospecting, frontage, and sea-beach
claims. "Ordinary quartz claims" shall mean
all quartz claims except prospecting areas and
prospecting quartz claims. "River or creek
claims" shall mean all claims in the beds of
rivers or permanent streams except dredging
claims. "Dredging claims" shall mean claims
in the beds of rivers or permanent streams, or li-
censed holdings, or special claims in alluvial ground
that shall be taken up to be and are worked by
dredging. "Wet claims" shall mean claims in
flooded ground which cannot be worked without
appliances for drainage, and defined as such by the
Warden. "Tail-race" shall mean a channel con-
structed for the purpose of drainage, or for the
discharge of tailings, whether used or not for the
purpose of saving gold. "Ground-sluice" shall
mean a race constructed for the purpose of saving
gold, and into which the gold is carried by the
action of the water used in ground-sluicing.
"Quartz reef" shall include any leader or vein of
quartz. "Schedule hereto" and "form pre-
scribed" shall mean the schedule appended to
these regulations, and the form in such schedule
appropriate to the application or other matter, or
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- William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand