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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 16

of Examiners under the Mining Act,” at Wellington, and shall forward therewith a fee of £1.

(3.) 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.

(4.) For the purposes of section 234 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.

(5.) 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 234 of the Mining Act, shall be so supplied at the same time as the application is forwarded, or as soon thereafter as is possible.

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

Part 1.—For First- or Second-class Certificates.

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

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

(e.) Blasting and the use of explosives.

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

(g.) A knowledge of Parts V and VI of “The Mining Act, 1905”—oral.

Part 2.—For First-class Certificates.

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

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

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

(k.) 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.

(l.) A knowledge of the different rocks where gold, silver, tin, copper, zinc, lead, and antimony are found, and the formation of lodes and leads.

(7.) A candidate for a first-class certificate shall be entitled thereto if he passes satisfactorily in Parts 1 and 2, and not otherwise; but if he passes satisfactorily in Part 1 only, and is not the holder of a second-class certificate, he shall be entitled to a second-class certificate.

(8.) A candidate for a second-class certificate shall be entitled thereto if he passes satisfactorily in Part 1, and he shall not be required to be examined in Part 2.

(9.) If the candidate is the holder of a second-class certificate he shall state the fact in his application.

(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 VI of “The Mining Act, 1905”—oral.

(11.) Every applicant must be able to give drawings to illustrate details connected with any work to be done in or about a gold-mine, and must give all details of calculations, and in matters of opinion must fully state his reasons for arriving at any given conclusion.

(12.) All applications shall, prior to the examination, be forwarded by the Secretary of the Board to the Inspector of Mines of the district for inquiry as to bona fides.

(13.) No candidate shall be permitted to attend for examination without an authority signed by the Secretary of the Board.

(14.) Certificates, whether by examination or without examination, shall be in such of the forms numbered 94 to 96 in the Eighth Schedule hereto as are applicable.

(15.) The Board shall keep a register of all certificates issued by it.

DREDGEMASTERS’ CERTIFICATES.

With respect to the Board of Examiners for Dredgemasters’ Certificates, the following provisions shall apply:—

The Board.

136. In each mining district where dredging is carried on the Board of Examiners shall appoint a certified dredgemaster of experience and good repute, and a Harbourmaster, who, together with the Inspector of Mines for the district, shall conduct the examinations, and at such times and places as may be determined by the Board.

137. Every Examiner so appointed by the Board shall receive by way of travelling-expenses the sum of £1 11s. for each day’s absence from his place of abode for the purpose of conducting the examination.