SEPT. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2719

(5B.) No stope shall be worked at a greater height than 8 ft. 6 in., or as may be approved by the Inspector of Mines.

(5C.) The owner, agent, or manager shall cause a sufficient number of suitable sanitary conveniences to be provided above and below ground, in suitable and convenient places, for the use of the persons employed, and to be constantly kept in a cleanly and sanitary condition; and no person shall relieve his bowels below ground elsewhere than in those conveniences. No person shall soil or render unfit for use in any way any convenience or sanitary utensil or appliance provided for the use of the persons employed. Pump-cisterns, sumps, and water accumulations in the mine shall not be directly or indirectly used for the purpose of this rule as a sanitary convenience.

(5D.) (i.) A place or places for meals shall be set aside in each level. Such places shall be kept clean.

(ii.) At every such place an impervious metal receptacle shall be provided, in which all waste food, paper, and other rubbish shall be placed. Any person wilfully neglecting to use the receptacle or throwing waste food about the mine shall be guilty of an offence.

(iii.) The contents of the receptacle shall be sent to the surface, and the receptacle shall be thoroughly cleansed, at regular intervals.

(5E.) A uniform code of signals shall be adopted at all mines, such code being as follows :—

1 bell —Stop or hold cage.
2 bells—Lower cage.
3 bells—Haul up cage.
4 bells—Men on cage.
5 bells—Change level.
12 bells—Accident.

In addition to the ordinary signals for winding, the “ward” system must be used when ringing the cage from a level to another level.

Present No. No. of Level Bell. Bell.
of Level. in No. 1 Ward.

No. 1 Ward { No. 1 1 1 pause 1
No. 2 2 1 ,, 2
No. 3 3 1 ,, 3
No. 4 4 1 ,, 4
No. 5 5 1 ,, 5

No. 2 Ward { No. 6 1 2 pause 1
No. 7 2 2 ,, 2
No. 8 3 2 ,, 3
No. 9 4 2 ,, 4
No. 10 5 2 ,, 5

When ringing the cage from a level to another level, the number of the ward must be rung first, and then the number of the level in that ward. It must always be understood that there are men on the cage in the inter-level signals.

(5F.) In any mine where the number of holes to be fired in one blast exceeds six, electric firing-apparatus shall be used. If, however, the number of holes to be fired does not exceed six, they may be spitted.

(5G.) Every workman, howsoever employed in or about the mine, whether on the surface or underground, shall be subject to the rules and regulations under the said Act, and shall obey the commands or instructions of the manager or any person in charge of the mine or part of the mine in which he is working.

(5H.) No person shall use threatening or abusive language towards the manager or other official of a mine, nor shall the manager or other official of a mine use threatening or abusive language towards any person employed in or about a mine.

(5I.) The ends of every cage shall be provided with a suitable gate, which shall always be used when persons are riding, and there shall also be a rigid bar or handrail at the top of the inside of every cage for persons to hold on to during the ascent or descent of the cage; and no cage shall be used until it has been examined by an Inspector, and his certificate in writing given that the aforesaid appliances have been fitted to his approval, and that the cage is in fit working-order.

(5J.) No person shall interfere with the engine, except the certificated winding-engine driver, when men are being raised in or lowered down a shaft. The engine-driver shall at all times gently lift the cage from the pit-bottom, and carefully drive the engine, and not leave the handle while persons are in the shaft, and no other persons shall be allowed to remain in the engine-house. Particular attention shall be paid to all indicators and signals, and the engine shall be stopped if any defect is perceived.

2. Subclause (b) of clause 6 of Regulation 127 of the principal regulations is hereby revoked, and the following substituted in lieu thereof :—

(b.) For sinking in wet ground where slabbing is necessary, the shaft being not less than 4 ft. by 3 ft., or as to be determined by the Inspector of Mines,—

Double the foregoing rate.

3. Form 93 in the Eighth Schedule to the principal regulations is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph :—

(3.) My age at the present time is years.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this sixth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Mines.

Powers delegated to the Kennedy’s Bush Scenic Board under the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the reserve described in the Schedule below (being land reserved under the said Act), for the period of three years from the date hereof (unless previously altered or revoked under the said Act), in the undermentioned persons, who shall be known as the Kennedy’s Bush Scenic Board, namely,—

The Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Canterbury Land District (ex officio),
Henry George Ell, Esq., M.P., Christchurch,
Leonard Cockayne, Esq., Ph.D., Linwood,
William Reece, Esq., Christchurch,
George Thomas Booth, Esq., New Brighton, and
George Harper, Esq., Riccarton

(herein referred to as “the Board”), in trust for the preservation of scenery, and subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say,—

MEETINGS.

1. The Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the first Tuesday in each month, at half-past three o’clock p.m., at the District Lands Office, Christchurch, or at such other time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board. The first meeting shall be held on Monday, the eighteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

2. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman, provided that two days’ notice of such meeting be given to each member, specifying the business to be transacted at such special meeting; and no other business than that so specified shall be transacted at such meeting.

3. Any four members of the Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.

4. The Commissioner of Crown Lands shall be the Chairman of the Board, and shall have an original as well as a casting vote.

5. The Board shall prepare and submit at an annual meeting to be held in the month of April in each year a report of the proceedings of the Board for the previous year ending on the thirty-first day of March, together with a statement of the receipts and expenditure of the Board for such year. A copy of every such report and statement, certified by the Chairman to be correct, shall be sent to the Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation as soon as possible after each annual meeting.

6. If at any meeting the Chairman is not present at the time appointed for holding the same, the members present shall choose some one of their number to be chairman of such meeting.

7. If, by resignation, death, incapacity, or otherwise, the seat of any member shall be or become vacant, or if any member absents himself, without reasonable cause, from three consecutive meetings of the Board, the Governor shall have power to appoint any other person to be a member of the Board in his stead.

8. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at a meeting.

SCHEDULE.

KENNEDY’S BUSH SCENIC RESERVE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 97 acres, more or less, being Reserves