Nov. 7. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3213

Opening Lands in Otago Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

N pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1908, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Tuesday, the eleventh day of February, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to section one hundred and thirty-five of the said Act, as they contain, or are supposed to contain, metal, mineral, or valuable stone.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

Section. Block. Area. Capital Value. Half-yearly Rental.

BRUCE COUNTY.–CLARENDON SURVEY DISTRICT.–OTAGO MINING DISTRICT.

A. R. P. £ s. d. £ s. d.
69 VI 52 0 34 30 0 0 0 12 0 Weighted with £7 10s., valuation for two-roomed hut.

This section is partly covered with dense manuka scrub and partly with light mixed bush. Soil light. Aspect southerly. Situated about eight miles from Waihola Railway-station, and about three miles from Taieri Mouth Post-office.

VINCENT COUNTY.–LOWER HAWEA SURVEY DISTRICT.– OTAGO MINING DISTRICT.
9, 10, 12, IV 416 3 32 210 0 0 4 4 0 24A Open, level, dry land of inferior quality; suitable for grazing. Situated about two miles from Hawea Flat Post-office.

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

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Amended Regulations under the Mining Act, 1908.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Mining Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby make the following amendments to the regulations made under the said Act on the twenty-fifth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-eighth day of October then instant; and doth hereby order that the regulations hereby made shall be read as part of the said principal regulations, and shall come into force on the day of the gazetting hereof.

REGULATIONS.

135. (6.) THE subjects of examination for certificates as mine-managers shall be as follows:-

Subject I, Mining.-The laying-out, timbering, and construction of shafts and underground workings; tapping water, and dam-construction in mines; blasting and explosives.

Subject II, Mechanics.-Practical electricity; pumping appliances and mine drainage; winding in shafts; hauling on underground planes; compressed-air and steam-power plants; strength of ropes and chains.

Subject III, Ventilation.-Ventilation of mines and knowledge of mine gases.

Subject IV, Arithmetic and Law.—A knowledge of arithmetic and the keeping of mine accounts; a knowledge of Parts V and VI of the Mining Act and regulations, and of first-aid to the injured.

Subject V, Surveying.—A knowledge of surveying and levelling, both underground and at the surface; also of mine plans and sections.

Subject VI, General and Applied Geology.—Prospecting, classification and modes of occurrence of mineral deposits, faulting, recovery of lost lodes. General geology so far as required for the understanding of problems in applied geology as these present themselves in New Zealand.

(7.) A candidate for a first-class certificate shall be entitled thereto if he passes satisfactorily in Subjects I

(8.) A candidate for a second-class certificate shall be entitled thereto if he passes satisfactorily in Subjects I,
III, and IV, and he shall not be required to pass in Subjects II, V, and VI.

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

W. FRASER,
Minister of Mines.

Authorizing the Exchange of Settlement Land in the Canterbury Land District for other Land.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

WHEREAS by section seventy-two of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time exchange any settlement land for any other land, and may on such exchange pay or receive any sum by way of equality of exchange:

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to exchange the settlement land described in Part I of the Schedule hereto for the land described in Part II of the said Schedule, and the owner of the land described in the second part of the said Schedule has agreed to such exchange:

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said section seventy-two, do hereby authorize the exchange of the settlement land described in Part I of the Schedule hereto for the land described in Part II of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

PART I.

All that area in the Canterbury Land District situated in Block XIV, Geraldine Survey District, and containing by admeasurement 2 acres 2 roods 36 perches, more or less, being part of Rural Section 7137. Bounded towards the east generally by the old bed of the stream forming part of the eastern boundary of aforesaid section; towards the west by other part of Rural Section 7137, 1260 links : as the same is more particularly delineated on plan numbered L. and S. 19429/23, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and marked A in red thereon.

Also 1 acre 2 roods 24 perches, more or less, being part of Rural Section 7137. Bounded towards the north and east by the old bed of a stream forming part of the eastern boundary of the aforesaid section ; and towards the west by other part of Rural Section 7137, 1354 links : as the same is more particularly delineated on plan numbered L. and S. 19429/23, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and marked B in red thereon.

PART II.

All that area in the Canterbury Land District situated in Block XIV, Geraldine Survey District, and containing by admeasurement 2 roods 16 perches, more or less, being part of Rural Section 7308. Bounded towards the north and east by other part of aforesaid section, 1003 links; towards the south and west by the old bed of the stream forming part of the western boundary of Section 7308 : as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan numbered L. and S. 19429/23, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and marked C in yellow thereon.

Also 2 acres and 30 perches, more or less, being part of Rural Section 7308. Bounded towards the east by other part of the aforesaid section, 1135 links; towards the south and west by the old bed of the stream forming part of the western boundary of the aforesaid section: as the same is more particularly delineated on plan numbered L. and S. 19429/23, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and marked D in yellow thereon.

Also 2 roods 12 perches, more or less, being part of Rural Section 7308. Bounded towards the east by other part of the aforesaid section, 857 links; towards the west generally by the old bed of the stream forming part of the western boundary of Section 7308 : as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan numbered L. and S. 19429/23, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and marked E in yellow thereon.

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

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.