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281. The said Board may appoint supervisors from time to time to conduct such examinations, and shall grant certificates, in the forms set forth in Schedules 45, 46, and 47 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.

282. Every application to pass an examination with the view of obtaining a certificate as a mine-manager or as an engine-driver shall be made in writing under the hand of the applicant to the Secretary of the Board of Examiners, Mines Department, Wellington, accompanied by 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 underground workings connected with mining.

283. The Board of Examiners may grant mine-managers’ or engine-drivers’ certificates, in the forms set forth in Schedules 48, 49, 50, and 51, to any persons of good repute who have complied with the provisions of sections 316 and 317 of “The Mining Act, 1891,” if they are fully satisfied that such persons are entitled to receive a mine-manager’s certificate or engine-driver’s certificate, as the case may be.

284. Every application for a certificate of a mine-manager or engine-driver under sections 316 and 317 of the said Act shall be made in writing to the Secretary of the Board of Examiners, Mines Department, Wellington, accompanied with a fee of 10s., together with the necessary certificates as required by the sections of the said Act herein referred to.

285. Each member of the Board of Examiners who is not otherwise employed in any department of the Public Service shall receive by way of allowance the sum of £1 1s. sterling for each and every day he is absent from his abode in attendance at a meeting of the Board of Examiners. Each member shall also be repaid any moneys expended in railway- and steamboat-fares and actual hotel expenses for board and lodging while so absent as aforesaid: Provided that due diligence is exercised in travelling.

First-class Certificates for Mine-managers.

286. The subjects for examination shall be as follows:—

(a.) The laying-out and construction of shafts, chambers, main drives or levels, uprises, and stopes.

(b.) On the timbering of shafts, adits, main drives or levels, passes, stopes, and generally on the systems of timbering mines and also in filling up old workings.

(c.) The drainage of mines and pumping appliances.

(d.) The haulage in shafts and on underground planes; also on the strength of hauling ropes and chains.

(e.) On the ventilation of mines.

(f.) Tapping water in mines, and the mode of constructing dams in underground workings to keep the water back.

(g.) On blasting, and the use of explosives.

(h.) The effect that faults, slides, and mullock-bars have on lodes, and how to ascertain the direction of slides and heaves.

(i.) 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.

(j.) 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.

(k.) A knowledge of arithmetic and the method of keeping accounts.

(l.) A knowledge of Part VI. of “The Mining Act, 1891.”

Second-class Certificates for Mine-managers.

287. The subjects for examination shall be as follows:—

(a.) The laying-out and construction of shafts, chambers, main drives or levels, adits, uprises, and stopes.

(b.) On the timbering of shafts, adits, main drives, or levels, passes, stopes, and generally on the systems of timbering mines, and also in filling up old workings.

(c.) On the ventilation of mines.

(d.) Tapping water in mines.

(e.) On blasting, and the use of explosives.

(f.) A knowledge of arithmetic and the method of keeping accounts.

(g.) A knowledge of Part VI. of “The Mining Act, 1891.”

ENGINE-DRIVERS’ CERTIFICATES.

288. The subjects for examination shall be as follows:—

(a.) On the different classes of steam-engines used in winding, and also all the internal and moving parts thereof.

(b.) On the different appliances and indicators used to show the position of cage in shaft, or truck on plane, in which persons are conveyed; also the meaning of the different signals used in mines.

(c.) On the different kinds of boilers used for winding-engines and their connections, and the effect of impurities in water used in such boilers, and the different remedies adopted to keep the boilers clean.

(d.) On the different appliances used for winding with hydraulic machinery, and the methods adopted for letting on and shutting off the water.

(e.) On the power of steam-engines and hydraulic machinery.

289. Every mine-manager’s certificate shall set forth whether it has been granted for a quartz mine or for an alluvial mine. But the Board of Examiners may grant a mine-manager’s certificate with the words “quartz mine or alluvial mine” inserted therein, if the applicant for such certificate shall produce certificates from previous employers that he has been employed in each of the said mines for the period prescribed in sections 314 and 317 of the said Act.