1634

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 75

15. In the case of surveys of underground workings, which have to be carried out under the supervision of the Survey Department, special instructions will be issued in each case.

GENERAL.

16. All plans of land applied for under the Mines Acts, and regulations made thereunder, are to be drawn to the following scales:—

Chains to an Inch.

Claims or blocks containing 5 acres and under .. 2
" from 5 up to 30 acres .. 5
" from 30 acres upwards .. 10
Races under two miles in length .. 5
" from two miles to five miles in length .. 10
" over five miles in length .. 20
Reservoirs under 2 acres in extent .. 2
" from 2 acres to 20 acres in extent .. 5
" from 20 acres upwards in extent .. 10

If the scale of 10 chains to an inch for plans of mining leases or licenses exceeding thirty acres in area be found too small to properly indicate any buildings or other improvements that are on the ground, the 5-chain scale must be used, or enlargements made to show them plainly.

17. Topographical features, such as mountains, spurs, gorges, rivers, creeks, lagoons, waterfalls, roads, tracks, or other physical features of or affecting the land surveyed, must be shown in full on all mining survey-plans.

18. The surveys of mining claims or blocks must be plotted on sheets prepared by the department, to which the requisite surveyors’ certificate is attached. These forms will be sold to any surveyor on application to the Chief Surveyor or to the Mining Registrar of the district. Other mining surveys may be plotted on antiquarian or double-elephant paper, of a size of not less than eighteen inches square.

19. The surveyor will be held responsible for the accuracy of the certificate attached to his plan; and if, on receipt of an official plan from a surveyor, it shall be found deficient in any necessary information, and if the omission be considered to be the result of a want of proper care on the part of the surveyor, he will be called upon to supply the deficiency at his own cost.

20. No surveyor will be allowed to employ more than two field-parties in the field in any surveys made for the Warden’s Court, unless authorised surveyors are placed in charge of such field-parties.

21. Every person applying for the survey of a mining area shall at time of lodging such application deposit with the Receiver of Gold Revenue, or, if there shall be no such Receiver, with the Warden, such survey-fee as shall be applicable according to the particulars hereafter set forth, that is to say,—

(1.) Not exceeding 30 acres, 4s. per acre, but not less than £5.

(2.) Exceeding 30 acres and up to 50 acres, 3s. 6d. per acre, but not less than £6.

(3.) Exceeding 50 acres and up to 100 acres, 3s. per acre, but not less than £8 15s.

(4.) Exceeding 100 acres and up to 200 acres, 2s. 6d. per acre, but not less than £15.

(5.) Extended claims, £2 10s. each.

(6.) Travelling-expenses from residence of surveyor, 3s. per mile extra by the nearest road, one way.

(7.) Bush-cutting, 2s. 6d. per chain extra.

(8.) Underground surveys, encroachments, water-races, or other surveys to which the foregoing rates do not apply, shall be paid for as follows:—

(9.) Surveyors’ fee, £2 per day or part of a day; labour extra; mileage as above.

(10.) The cost of putting plans on certificate forms—viz., 3s. 6d.—is included in above fees, and when this is done by the Government that amount will be deducted from final payment.

(11.) Where necessary to reduce size of claims, &c., after survey, the cost on above scale must be deposited before survey is made or certificate issued.

And the fees to be paid for surveys under the Mining Act are hereby prescribed to be those set forth in the foregoing regulation, according as the facts may require, and subject also to such other regulations as are or may be in force under the Mining Act.

22. When plans are received and have been approved, the Chief Surveyor shall, in cases where the survey has been made by an officer of the staff, forward to the Receiver an abstract or voucher, duly certified, in favour of the Public Account. Where the survey has been made by an authorised private surveyor, an abstract or voucher for the sum or sums due, in favour of the person entitled, shall be sent in like manner.

The Receiver of Gold Revenue may, after approval of the voucher by the Chief Surveyor, pay to the person entitled any sum up to 50 per cent. of the amount of deposit, and on final approval of the survey shall pay out of his deposit account the balance or full amount, as the case may be, into the Public Account or to the person entitled to receive, as the case may be; and should there be a balance, he shall pay it to the depositor or to the Public Account as he may be specially instructed.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

Notifying Lands in Canterbury for Sale by Public Auction.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one hundred and thirteenth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the dates specified in the Schedule hereto as the times at which the lands enumerated in the said Schedule shall be sold by public auction at the places stated in the said Schedule; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto opposite the description of such lands respectively.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.

(Sale at Courthouse, Ashburton, on Wednesday, the 25th November, 1896.)

Township of South Rakaia.