JUNE 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1201

(3.) The application may be in the form numbered 72 in the First Schedule hereto.

(4.) For the purpose of enabling the Board to determine whether the candidate possesses the requisite practical experience, his application shall specify with sufficient particularity for identification and reference the respective mines in which he has been employed, and the period and nature of his employment therein, including, in the case of a battery superintendent's certificate, the nature of the chemical process used in the mine, and of the machinery and appliances connected therewith.

(5.) For the purposes of section 190 of the Mining Act, the requisite practical experience of a candidate for a battery superintendent's certificate shall be actual employment for not less than twelve months in the working of the chemical process used in the mine, and of the machinery and appliances connected therewith.

(6.) The evidence in writing from previous employers in proof of the nature and extent of the candidate's practical experience, to be supplied to the Board as required by section 190 of the Mining Act, shall be so supplied at the same time as the application is forwarded, or as soon thereafter as is possible.

(7.) The subjects of examination for certificates as mine-managers shall consist of four Parts, as follows:—

Part 1.—Quartz and Alluvial Workings.

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

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

(c.) Pumping appliances and the drainage of mines.

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

(e.) The ventilation of mines and composition of gases.

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

(g.) 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 the formation of lodes and leads.

Part 2.—Dredging.

(k.) The mooring and working of dredges, and the working of appliances required to carry on gold-dredging operations.

(l.) The strength of ropes, chains, machinery, and appliances necessary to carry on dredging operations.

(m.) Pumping appliances for raising water for washing the dredged material, and supplying water for steam-boilers.

(n.) The recovery of gold from the dredged material.

Part 3.—Hydraulic Sluicing.

(o.) The diameter, strength, and jointing of hydraulic pipes required to convey specified heads of water.

(p.) The construction of water- and tail-races.

(q.) The working of auriferous gravels by hydraulic sluicing, either by elevating or otherwise, including sluices and gold-saving appliances.

Part 4.—General.

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

(s.) A knowledge of Part V. of “The Mining Act, 1898”—oral.

(8.) Candidates who pass shall be entitled to first- or second-class certificates, according to merit: Provided that if the candidate fails in Part 1 he shall be deemed to have failed in the whole examination, and in no case shall he be entitled to a first-class certificate unless he passes satisfactorily in Parts 1 and 4, and also in either Part 2 or Part 3.

(9.) If the candidate is the holder of a second-class certificate he shall state the fact in his application, in which case his examination shall be deemed to be for a first-class certificate, and if he passes he shall surrender his second-class certificate before receiving his first-class certificate.

(10.) The subjects of examination for certificates as battery superintendents shall be as follows:—

(a.) The different modes of reducing and pulverising ores.

(b.) Amalgamating machines.

(c.) The use of quicksilver, and methods of using it in connection with the extraction of gold and silver from ores.

(d.) Cyanide, chlorination, and other chemical processes of recovering gold and silver from ores.

(e.) The sampling and testing of ores.

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

(g.) A knowledge of Part V. of “The Mining Act, 1898”—oral.

General as to Certificates.

16. Certificates, whether by examination or without examination, shall be in such of the forms numbered 73 to 75 in the First Schedule hereto as are applicable.

17. The Board shall keep a register of all certificates issued by it, distinguishing those issued by examination from those issued without examination.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Duplicates of Documents lost or destroyed.

18. For the purposes of the issue of duplicates of lost or destroyed documents under the powers in that behalf contained in section 306 of the principal Act, the following provisions shall apply:—

(1.) The application for the duplicate may be in the Form No. 76 in the First Schedule hereto, and shall be filed in the office of the Registrar, but need not be notified or advertised.

(2.) The statutory declaration embodied in the application shall be exempt from stamp duty.

(3.) The Warden, if satisfied with the sworn proof of loss, may order the Registrar to issue a duplicate, and in such case the Registrar shall issue the same accordingly.

(4.) The duplicate shall be a copy of the original, with the addition of the words,—

“Duplicate, issued this day of , 1 , in lieu of the original, which has been lost [or destroyed].

“A.B.,

Registrar.”

(5.) The only fee payable shall be the application-fee of 2s.

Compensation in respect of Watercourses set apart for Discharge of Tailings.

19. The claim for compensation to be prescribed under section 109 of the Mining Act may be made in the form numbered 77 in the First Schedule hereto, or to that effect.

General as to Compensation.

20. Subject as last aforesaid, all claims for compensation against Her Majesty under the Mining Act may be made in such of the forms provided by “The Public Works Act, 1894,” as are applicable, with all such modifications and alterations as the circumstances require.

As to Right to use Mining Works.

21. Subject to the provisions of section 164 of the Mining Act, the Warden may grant to any person working a claim the right to connect with and use any shaft, tunnel, or drive on any other person's claim:

Provided that if such shaft, tunnel, or drive existed on the latter claim when it was taken up no compensation shall be payable by the grantee for or on account of the cost of construction.

As to Area, Form, and Dimensions of Sea-beach Claims.

22. Subclause (1) of clause 20 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by revoking the words “and extending seawards indefinitely”; and subclause (2) of the same clause is hereby repealed.

As to Survey.

23. In every case where a claim or other mining privilege is surveyed, the surveyor's plan shall show the boundaries as marked out by the applicant, and the position of the pegs or other marks used in the marking-out.

24. On every angle- or corner peg used by the surveyor in surveying the land there shall be distinctly cut or burnt the applicant's distinguishing mark, together with, in the cases following, the initial letters of the mining privilege, that is to say: S.C. for a special claim, E.C. for an extended claim, S.S. for a special site, W.R. for a water-race, T.R. for a tail-race, M.L. for a mineral license.