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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 89

(2.) Each member of the Board who is not otherwise employed in any department of the public service 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 attending at a meeting of the Board, including the day of his leaving his place of abode, but not the day of his return thereto.

(3.) He shall also be repaid all sums properly expended by him for fares by railway, coach, or steamer in travelling for the purpose of such attendance.

Certificates by Examination.

135. The examination for certificates as mine-managers or battery superintendents shall be held at such times and places as are appointed by the Board, and with respect to such examinations the following provisions shall apply:—

(1.) For the better conduct of the examinations the Board may appoint supervisors, with such functions and powers as the Board thinks fit.

(2.) Every candidate for a certificate by examination shall at least one month before the date fixed for the examination, and in the Form No. 93 in the Eighth Schedule hereto, make application in that behalf to “The Secretary of the Board 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.) Practical elementary electricity.

(h.) A knowledge of Parts V and VI of “The Mining Act, 1908”—oral.

Part 2.—For First-class Certificates.

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

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

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

(l.) 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.

(m.) 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, 1908”—ora.

(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.