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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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(2.) By posting the copy in a duly registered
letter addressed to such person or party
at his last known place of business or
abode in the Dominion; or

(3.) In such other manner as the Warden or
the Clerk of the Court directs.

149. In case of service under the last preceding
     clause hereof, a notification of the mode of service,
     and of the fact that it has been directed by the
     Warden or Clerk, shall be advertised in some news-
     paper published or circulating in the locality of
     the Courthouse in which the proceedings are being
     dealt with, and in such case (but subject to the pro-
     visions of the next succeeding clause hereof relat-
     ing to service by post) the date on which the
     advertisement first appears shall be deemed to be
     the date of the service.

150. In every case where under these regulations
     service is effected by posting a registered letter, the
     date on which the letter would reach its address in
     the ordinary course of post shall be deemed to be
     the date of the service.

151. The foregoing provisions as to service shall
     not apply in the case of a summons the mode of
     service whereof is prescribed by subsections (14) to
     (19) of section 333 of the Mining Act.

152. In the case of a summons where the defend-
     ant is beyond the limits of the Dominion, but has
     an agent within the Dominion authorised to de-
     fend actions, service may, by leave of the Court, be
     made upon such agent.

As to Tent or Hut Ground.

153. In addition to the other privileges con-
     ferred by the Mining Act or these regulations on
     the holder of a miner’s right, he shall as such
     holder, and without application to the Warden, be
     entitled to personally occupy as tent or hut ground
     for his residence an area not exceeding 24 ft.
     frontage by 48 ft. depth on any unoccupied Crown
     land open for mining, not being land set apart for
     business or residence sites or land required for
     such sites or for mining purposes.

As to Sanitary Provisions.

154. The holders of all residence or business
     sites or of tent or hut grounds shall comply with
     all sanitary regulations prescribed by any local
     authority having jurisdiction over such sites or
     grounds, and also with all the provisions of “The
     Public Health Act, 1908,” or its amendments re-
     lating thereto.

As to Rents, &c., payable to Owner of Land.

155. All rents, royalties, and license fees to
     which the owner of land is entitled under sec-
     tion 58 of the Mining Act shall, when received
     by the Receiver, be paid by him into his Deposit
     Account, and there held until he can pay them
     over to the owner entitled thereto.

As to Receivers.

156. In every case where, under the powers in
     that behalf conferred by section 166 of the Mining
     Act, the Commissioner of Crown Lands exercises
     the powers and functions of the Warden and Re-
     gistrar respectively, the Receiver of Land Revenue
     of the land district shall exercise the powers and
     functions of the Receiver of Gold Revenue.

As to Appeals.

157. The result of every appeal under section
     336 of the Mining Act shall be forthwith communi-
     cated to the Clerk of the Court from which the
     appeal was made by certificate under the hand of
     the Clerk of the Appellate Court and the seal of
     his Court.

Mining Agents.

158. All mining agents duly registered under
     any former Mining Act shall be deemed to be duly
     registered under “The Mining Act, 1908,” and
     shall be liable to pay the annual registration fee
     hereinafter prescribed.

159. Any person desirous of being registered as
     a mining agent under section 333 of the Mining
     Act shall make application in writing in the Form
     No. 105 in the Ninth Schedule hereto, which appli-
     cation shall be publicly notified by and at the ex-
     pense of the applicant by advertisement twice at
     least in one or more newspapers circulating in the
     district.

160. Such application shall state the particular
     mining district, or the particular localities within
     such district, to which the application is intended
     to relate.

161. An application shall not be granted autho-
     rising any mining agent to appear in any
     Warden’s Court held outside the mining district
     for which he is registered.

162. Before granting any application for regis-
     tration as a mining agent the Warden shall satisfy
     himself as to the applicant’s knowledge in respect
     to the general mining law of the Dominion, par-
     ticularly treating of the following subjects:—

(a.) The classes of land in respect of which
mining privileges may be granted pur-
suant to the Mining Act.

(b.) Miners’ rights.

(c.) The different classes of mining privileges,
and their protection, amalgamation,
and exchange, as well as the procedure
to be adopted in applying therefor.

(d.) The procedure of the Warden’s Court.

(e.) Forfeiture by decree of the Court.

(f.) Abandonment of mining privileges.

163. Every application to be registered as a
     mining agent, and every application to cancel such
     registration, shall be publicly heard.

164. Immediately on the grant of an application
     to be registered as a mining agent, the Warden
     shall issue to the applicant a license in the Form
     No. 106 in the Ninth Schedule hereto.

165. (1.) There shall be payable to the Clerk of
     the Warden’s Court by every mining agent an
     annual license fee of £1 1s., payable on the first
     day of January in each year :