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must be lodged with the Chief Inspector of Machinery, Wellington, twenty-one days before the date of examination.

WINDING-ENGINES.

WINDING-ENGINE DRIVERS. (COMPETENCY.)

36. The holder of a certificate to act as winding-engine driver may work any engine used for winding purposes, any locomotive or traction engine, and any land stationary second-class engine.

37. It is provided by section 41 of “The Inspection of Machinery Act, 1908,” that “every person employed or acting in the capacity of engine-driver who is in charge of any winding-engine or winding machinery, by means whereof material or persons are drawn up, down, or along any shaft, pit, or inclined plane or level in any mine or coal-mine, shall be the holder of a winding-engine driver’s certificate.”

38. It is provided by section 14 of “The Inspection of Machinery Amendment Act, 1908,” that no person who has suffered the loss of a hand or a foot shall act as the driver of a winding-engine.

39. It is provided by section 19 of “The Inspection of Machinery Amendment Act, 1908,” that every applicant for examination shall be a British subject, and shall satisfy the Board that he can speak and write the English language sufficiently to be able to perform the duties he is required to perform as the holder of a winding-engine driver’s certificate.

40. It is provided by section 21 of “The Inspection of Machinery Amendment Act, 1908,” that an applicant must forward a certificate in writing signed by a registered medical practitioner that the applicant is neither wholly nor partially deaf, nor has defective eyesight, nor is subject to any other infirmity likely to interfere with the efficient discharge of his duties.

41. An applicant for examination as a winding-engine driver must—
    (1.) Be at least twenty-one years of age.
    (2.) Forward to the Chief Inspector of Machinery, at Wellington, his application, and, in case of an application from an engine-driver in charge of winding machinery used for raising and lowering material or men in a shaft of a mine or coal-mine, it shall be accompanied also with a testimonial from his employer (with copy of same) that the applicant has been working under a certificated winding-engine driver at such winding-engine or machinery for a period of six months, or that he has served for one month working winding machinery under a certificated winding-engine driver: Provided in the latter case that the applicant shall not be entitled to a certificate unless he—
    (a.) Is the possessor of a sea-going engineer’s certificate, or
    (b.) Has served for three years fitting and erecting machinery, or
    (c.) Is the possessor of a locomotive- and traction-engine driver’s certificate, or
    (d.) Has had charge of a land boiler and machinery (including locomotive and traction engines) for two years.

42. (1.) Each applicant must send to the Chief Inspector of Machinery, Wellington, with his application form and employers’ testimonials a certificate (with copy of same) of sobriety and good conduct for a period of at least twelve months immediately preceding the date of application, and his fee of £1 by postal note, money-order, or cash (not by stamps or cheque).
    (2.) When any applicant is unable, from any sufficient cause, to produce employers’ testimonials, a statutory declaration verifying the facts may be accepted by the Board of Examiners.

43. The subjects for oral examination shall be as follows :—

Steam or Air Winding Machinery.

(1.) The different classes of air or steam engines used in winding, and also all the internal and moving parts, and the remedying of simple defects that might arise in the use of engines.

(2.) 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.