Feb. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 831

Warrant appointing Conciliation Commissioner under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act, 1908.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

I N exercise and pursuance of the power and authority conferred by section twenty-nine of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act, 1908, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

JAMES RICHARD TRIGGS

to be a Conciliation Commissioner under and for the purposes of Part III of the said Act, and to exercise jurisdiction within the Canterbury and Otago and Southland Industrial Districts. Appointment to date from the twenty-second day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

J. A. MILLAR,
Minister of Labour.

Amended Regulations re Gold-miners’ Relief Fund.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

I N exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Mining Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and of all others powers enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby revoke the regulations dealing with the administration of the Gold-miners’ Relief Fund, made under the said Act on the seventh day of April and the thirteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, and respectively published in the New Zealand Gazette of the thirteenth day of April and the fourteenth day of September then instant, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the following regulations; and doth hereby order that the regulations hereby made shall come into operation from the date of the gazetting thereof.

REGULATIONS.

1. THE Public Trustee shall, on receipt of a certificate from a duly qualified medical officer, and also on the certificate from an Inspector of Mines, apply the moneys deposited to the credit of the Gold-miners’ Relief Fund, as follows :—

(a.) When any gold-miner has been injured while working in or about a gold-mine or battery, and is off work for one week or more, he shall be granted the sum of 12s. 6d. per week, or at the rate of 2s. 1d. for every working-day, from the date of the injury, which payment shall, subject as hereinafter provided, continue so long as such medical officer and Inspector of Mines certify that such gold-miner is unable to work; but when an injury occurs in any mine situate in a locality remote from settlement, where the services of a medical officer are not procurable, or in any case where the Inspector of Mines is of opinion and certifies that a medical certificate is unnecessary, payment at the prescribed rate may be made for any period not exceeding thirty days from the date of the injury on the certificate of the Inspector of Mines alone. In cases where any gold-miner is permanently disabled, he may be granted a fixed sum (not exceeding £50) in satisfaction of all claims, but in any such case the certificate of a duly qualified medical officer and an Inspector of Mines will be required. No gold-miner shall be entitled to any payment in any case unless he has been so injured as to prevent him working for a period of not less than one week, and the total amount payable to any gold-miner shall in no case exceed £50.

(b.) If any gold-miner meets with any such injury which proves fatal, a sum (not exceeding £50) may be granted to the widow or other near relative of such deceased gold-miner in full satisfaction of all claims.

2. Any gold-miner who meets with any such injury which disables him from work shall send, or cause to be sent, within fourteen days of such injury occurring, a notice in writing to the Inspector of Mines; and all applications for relief must be made within twenty-one days of the date of the injury, or the claim cannot be entertained.

3. No miner shall be entitled to relief from the Gold-miners’ Relief Fund for any injury caused by drinking intoxicating liquors, fighting, or any kind of athletic sports or game of amusement, or for any injury caused by the misconduct of such miner.

4. Any gold-miner who is or hereafter becomes incapacitated for work owing to miners’ phthisis (pneumoconiosis) contracted while working in a gold-mine in New Zealand shall be paid in accordance with these regulations.

5. A sum (not exceeding £50) may be paid for the relief of the family of any such gold-miner who has died or hereafter dies from miners’ phthisis (pneumoconiosis), and an additional sum (not exceeding £20) may be granted to the widow or other near relative of the deceased gold-miner towards defraying the expenses of his funeral.

6. In these regulations—

“Gold-miner” and “miner” mean any person employed in or about a gold-mine, and includes persons employed in batteries :

“Injury” means personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of the employment or occupation of a gold-miner.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this seventeenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Mines.

Appointment of Returning Officer for Nelson Electoral District.

Chief Electoral Office,
Wellington, 13th February, 1912.

H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM WARING DE CASTRO

to be Returning Officer under the Legislature Act, 1908, for the Electoral District of Nelson, vice E. C. Kelling, resigned.

J. G. WARD,
Prime Minister.

Appointment of Registrar of Electors and Returning Officer for Otago Central Electoral District.

Chief Electoral Office,
Wellington, 13th February, 1912.

H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JULES CÆSAR MALFROY

to be Registrar of Electors and Returning Officer under the Legislature Act, 1908, for the Electoral District of Otago Central, vice J. Miller, resigned.

J. G. WARD,
Prime Minister.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 13th February, 1912.

H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned persons to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz. :—

Name. District.
ARTHUR WOLLESTON PYM HEWITT .. Taumarunui.
ROBERT TROUP .. Invercargill.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Cadets appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 15th February, 1912.

H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ROY ALLAN YOUNGER and
JOSEPH PATRICK McMAHON-BOX

to be Cadets in the office of the Registrar-General at Wellington. Appointments to date from 1st February, 1912, and 7th February, 1912, respectively.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.