Aug. 5.]

SCHEDULE.

WAIOPUHU SCENIC RESERVE.

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 22 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Section No. 43 and part of Section No. 44, Block II, Waiopuhu Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by Horowhenua East Road from the easternmost corner of Section No. 41 to Koputuroa Road; thence towards the south-east by Koputuroa Road, 594·3 links; thence towards the south-west by a right line bearing 299° 13' 47", distance 1009·6 links; thence again towards the south-east and south-west by the other part of Section No. 44; and towards the north-west by Section No. 41 to Horowhenua East Road, the place of commencement: be all the aforesaid bearings and linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1/553, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

Regulations under the Mining Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers conferred upon him by "The Mining Act, 1908," and its amendments (hereinafter termed "the Mining Act"), His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby revoke all regulations relating to mining which are inconsistent with or repugnant to the regulations hereby made, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the regulations set forth hereunder; and doth hereby declare that the regulations hereby made shall come into force on the day of the gazetting hereof.

REGULATIONS.

INTERPRETATION.

1. (1.) In these regulations, if not inconsistent with the context, words and expressions shall have the same meaning as in the Mining Act.

(2.) In so far as relates to the receiving and disposing of applications for prospecting warrants, prospecting licenses, and mining privileges in respect of water, where the land to which the application relates is situate wholly outside a mining district and is other than Native land, all references in these regulations to the Warden or the Registrar shall be deemed to be references to the Commissioner of Crown Lands of the land district in which the land is situate, and all references to the Receiver shall be deemed to be references to the Receiver of Land Revenue of that land district, and these regulations shall be construed accordingly.

MINERS' RIGHTS.

2. A miner's right that does not extend to Native ceded lands shall be in the form numbered 1 or (in the case of a consolidated miners' right) 2 in the First Schedule hereto; and a miner's right that does so extend shall be in the form numbered 3 or

B

Appointing Commissioners to classify a Pastoral Run in Canterbury Land District.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the two-hundred-and-twenty-fifth section of the Land Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

CHARLES ROBERT POLLEN,
JAMES STEVENSON, and
DAVID NIMMO SCOTT

Commissioners to classify and report to me upon the rural lands in the Canterbury Land District known as Run 93, Mackenzie County, as provided by the said section two hundred and twenty-five.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this second day of August, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

(in the case of a consolidated miners' right) 4 in that Schedule, and shall specify the block of Native ceded land to which it extends.

3. Subject to the provisions of the Mining Act relating to Native ceded land, the qualification of a miner's right shall not be necessary in the cases and for the purposes following, that is to say,—

In the Case of

For the Purposes of

(1.) Any officer under the Mining Act

The exercise of his official functions and powers under the Mining Act.

(2.) Any person deriving title to mining privilege by transmission, or by operation of law

His title, and the exercise of his rights thereunder.

(3.) The mortgagee of a mining privilege

His title as mortgagee, and the exercise of his rights under the mortgage.

The exercise of his rights as such holder, and all applications to the Warden of the Court relating to such mining privilege.

(4.) The holder of a license for a mining privilege

The exercise of his rights, liens, and remedies in respect of money owing to him as such workman, contractor, or tributer.

(5.) A workman, contractor, or tributer in respect of a mining privilege

Commencing any suit for encroachment on or damage to such land.

(6.) An occupier of private land

4. With respect to every person who is by law required to have the qualification of a miner's right, the following provisions shall apply:—

(1.) It shall be his duty to produce the miner's right for inspection whenever requested so to do by the Warden, or any Inspector,